Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Peer into the strange and wonderful world of quantum physics with this course that explains how the quantum world works and why it works that way.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Quantum Enigma
- 02: The View from 1900
- 03: Two Revolutionaries-Planck and Einstein
- 04: Particles of Light, Waves of Matter
- 05: Standing Waves and Stable Atoms
- 06: Uncertainty
- 07: Complementarity and the Great Debate
- 08: Paradoxes of Interference
- 09: States, Amplitudes, and Probabilities
- 10: Particles That Spin
- 11: Quantum Twins
- 12: The Gregarious Particles
- 13: Antisymmetric and Antisocial
- 14: The Most Important Minus Sign in the World
- 15: Entanglement
- 16: Bell and Beyond
- 17: All the Myriad Ways
- 18: Much Ado about Nothing
- 19: Quantum Cloning
- 20: Quantum Cryptography
- 21: Bits, Qubits, and Ebits
- 22: Quantum Computers
- 23: Many Worlds or One?
- 24: The Great Smoky Dragon
Taught by
Benjamin Schumacher, Ph.D.
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