Understanding the Quantum World
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<p><span>Open your mind and broaden your scientific horizons as you discover the quantum world is more accessible than you ever imagined.</span></p>
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Particle-Wave Duality
- 02: Particles, Waves, and Interference Patterns
- 03: Observers Disturb What They Measure
- 04: Bell’s Theorem and Schrödinger’s Cat
- 05: Quantum Paradoxes and Interpretations
- 06: The Position-Momentum Uncertainty Relation
- 07: Wave Quantization
- 08: Quantum Wave Shapes and the Periodic Table
- 09: Interference of Waves and Sloshing States
- 10: Wave Shapes in Diamond and Graphene
- 11: Harmonic Oscillators
- 12: The Energy-Time Uncertainty Relation
- 13: Quantum Angular Momentum and Electron Spin
- 14: Quantum Orbital Angular Momentum
- 15: Quantum Properties of Light
- 16: Atomic Transitions and Photons
- 17: Atomic Clocks and GPS
- 18: Quantum Mechanics and Color Vision
- 19: A Quantum Explanation of Color
- 20: Quantum Tunneling
- 21: Fermions and Bosons
- 22: Spin Singlets, Entanglement, and the EPR Paradox
- 23: Quantum Mechanics and Metals
- 24: Superconductivity
Taught by
Erica W. Carlson
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