Quantum Mechanics

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.

Topics Covered:

• 1: The Quantum Enigma
• 2: The View from 1900
• 3: Two Revolutionaries-Planck and Einstein
• 4: Particles of Light, Waves of Matter
• 5: Standing Waves and Stable Atoms
• 6: Uncertainty
• 7: Complementarity and the Great Debate
• 8: Paradoxes of Interference
• 9: 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