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Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World

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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

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
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Benjamin Schumacher, Ph.D.

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