Course curriculum

Introduction

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Course objectives

Quantum physics is for all

What is quantum?

The quantum world

Objectives and agenda

A quantum of understanding

Planck’s desperate move

Waves

Photoelectric phenomena

Einstein’s Nobel idea

Light spectra

Bohr and the atom

What is quantum quiz

The theory emerges

Order from chaos

Objectives and agenda

Magic of matrices

Matrix mechanics and wave mechanics

Einstein’s aversion

The probability revolution

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle

Schrödinger’s cat

Wave function collapse or decoherence

Test your understanding

Light and matter - Quantum electrodynamics

Bringing light and matter together

Objectives and agenda

The quantum window

Quantum spin and the Pauli exclusion principle

The basics of QED and quantum field theory

Test your understanding

The infinity crisis

Diagramming the quantum

Time reversal

Entanglement

Einstein’s last attack

Objectives and agenda

EPR

Bell’s inequality

Testing for entanglement

Quantum encryption

Quantum teleportation

Entanglement and instant communication

Test your understanding

What does it mean? - Quantum interpretation

Science with interpretations

Objectives and agenda

Shut up and calculate

Why physicists argue over interpretations of quantum physics

Many worlds

De Broglie-Bohm interpretation

A step into relativity

Relational interpretation

Untangling interpretations

Test your understanding

The practical quantum

Quantum lives

Objectives and agenda

Lasers and LEDs

Electronics

Tunnelling and memory

Superconducting magic

Unpacking the MRI machine

Josephson junctions

Quantum computing

Test your understanding

Quantum possibilities

Only the beginning

Objectives and agenda

Bose-Einstein condensates

Quantum gravity

Quantum optics

Zero-point energy

Quantum biology

Test your understanding

Conclusion

Conclusion

The big quantum quiz

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