A Socratic tutor for quantum mechanics

What this is

A chat tutor that a student works alongside while reading their own textbook. You tell it which chapter you are on; it asks diagnostic questions, sets problems, checks your reasoning step by step, and fades its help as you demonstrate you can carry a step alone.

Mathematics is written and rendered as proper notation — Dirac brackets, operators, integrals and matrices — so a derivation can be read the way it would appear on paper rather than as plain-text approximations.

How it teaches

The tutoring protocol is deliberate rather than conversational. An unguarded chatbot that answers every question well produces a student who feels fluent during practice and cannot reproduce the work unaided. These constraints exist to avoid exactly that:

• Scaffold, don't solve. Help arrives in escalating tiers — a nudge, then a hint, then a worked analogous example — and only after a genuine attempt. A complete solution is never the first response.
• Generate before confirming. You are asked to explain your reasoning before the tutor validates or corrects it. Producing the explanation is where most of the learning happens.
• Fade the support. Once you have shown you can do a step independently, the tutor stops walking you through it.
• Feedback on the work, not the person. “This step assumes the potential is time-independent, which doesn't hold here” — specific and about the reasoning, not praise or grading.
• Verify rather than assert. In subjects where correctness is checkable, claims get checked — the algebra expanded, the code run — instead of stated from memory.

Access

This is a single-user tool, and sign-in is restricted to its owner. It runs against a personal, metered language-model API account, so access is deliberately closed rather than open to the public. Visiting /chat without credentials returns an authentication challenge — that is the intended behaviour, not a broken page.

These public pages describe the tool and are the whole of the crawlable site.

What this is not

• Not a textbook host. No textbook, solutions manual, or copyrighted course material is published, distributed, or made downloadable here. The owner works from a legally obtained personal copy of their own coursebook.
• Not an answer service. It is designed specifically not to produce finished homework. Refusing to hand over solutions is the core of the method.
• Not affiliated. Independent personal project, with no connection to any university, publisher, or textbook author, and no claim of endorsement by any.
• Not commercial. Nothing is sold, no payments are taken, no accounts are offered, and no advertising is served.

Privacy

There is no user database, and no analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking scripts of any kind. Conversations live in the browser tab for the length of a session and are never written to a server-side store. A single sign-in cookie keeps the owner signed in; it contains no personal data.

Messages are sent to Anthropic's Claude API to generate replies, which is the only external service this site talks to. Nothing else leaves the browser.