Quantum AcademyQM-101 · Dr. Q's Lab
0/250 XP

Quantum Academy · Lab Arcade

The Lab Arcade

Every chapter's interactive lab in one place — real physics, real formulas, and a challenge to win in each. When you've had your fill of experiments, drill the whole course with three quick games.

All labs

Unit 01The Classical World Cracks

CH 01Scale ZoomWhere Does Quantum Kick In?Zoom from a room-sized view down to the Planck length and find where quantum effects take over.From Chapter 1Play CH 02Wave MixerBuild and Destroy InterferenceAdd two waves, slide their phase, and build — or destroy — an interference pattern.From Chapter 2Play CH 03Blackbody FurnaceHeat It Until It GlowsHeat a furnace from 300 K to 30,000 K and watch Planck's curve tame the ultraviolet catastrophe.From Chapter 3Play CH 04Photon CannonKnock Electrons Off MetalFire photons at a metal plate and repeat Millikan's measurement of Planck's constant.From Chapter 4Play CH 05Quantum Leap LabMake Hydrogen GlowBump hydrogen's electron between energy levels and match the spectral lines it emits.From Chapter 5Play

Unit 02Wave–Particle Duality

CH 06Matter-Wave SizerHow Wavy Are You?Pick anything from an electron to a baseball and see how big its de Broglie wavelength really is.From Chapter 6Play CH 07Double-Slit SimulatorFire One Particle at a TimeFire particles one at a time and watch an interference pattern build up, dot by dot.From Chapter 7Play CH 08Uncertainty SqueezerPin Down a Wave PacketSqueeze a wave packet in position and watch its momentum spread out to pay for it.From Chapter 8Play

Unit 03The Mathematical Machinery

CH 09Born Rule DetectorMeasure, Repeat, DiscoverFire electrons at a detector one at a time and watch the histogram settle onto |ψ|².From Chapter 9Play CH 10Wave-Packet EngineWatch ψ EvolveLaunch a wave packet into a potential landscape and watch the Schrödinger equation move it.From Chapter 10Play CH 11Quantum BoxTrap a Particle and Read Its EnergyTrap an electron between two walls, read its quantized energies, and watch superpositions slosh.From Chapter 11Play CH 12Tunneling ArcadeGet Through the BarrierSend an electron wave at a barrier it cannot climb and tune it until enough gets through.From Chapter 12Play CH 13Quantum SpringClimb the Energy LadderClimb the evenly spaced energy ladder of a quantum spring, one ħω at a time.From Chapter 13Play CH 14Operator WorkshopMatrices That MeasureApply matrices to state vectors and discover which measurements refuse to commute.From Chapter 14Play CH 15Measurement CasinoPrepare, Measure, CollapsePrepare a superposition, measure it again and again, and watch the odds follow the amplitudes.From Chapter 15Play

Unit 04Atoms, Spin & Identity

CH 16Orbital ExplorerMap the Electron CloudExplore hydrogen's orbitals and map where the electron is most likely to be found.From Chapter 16Play CH 17Stern–Gerlach SorterChain the MagnetsChain Stern–Gerlach magnets and predict how a beam of spins splits at every stage.From Chapter 17Play CH 18Aufbau BuilderFill the OrbitalsDrop electrons into orbital boxes and build the ground states of the first 36 elements.From Chapter 18Play CH 19Particle PartyBosons Pile Up, Fermions StackFill the same energy ladder with bosons and fermions and watch one pile up while the other stacks.From Chapter 19Play

Unit 05Entanglement & Reality

CH 20Entanglement LabAlice and Bob's CorrelationsTurn Alice's and Bob's analysers and measure how entangled photon pairs agree.From Chapter 20Play CH 21The CHSH GameBeat the Classical LimitPlay the CHSH game as Alice and Bob and beat the 75% classical limit with entanglement.From Chapter 21Play CH 22The Cat BoxChoose Your InterpretationOpen Schrödinger's box under rival interpretations and see where decoherence fits in.From Chapter 22Play

Unit 06Quantum Technology & Frontiers

CH 23Qubit WorkbenchGates on the Bloch SphereApply quantum gates and steer a qubit's state around the Bloch sphere.From Chapter 23Play CH 24BB84 Spy HuntCatch the EavesdropperExchange polarized photons, compare bases, and catch an eavesdropper by the errors she leaves.From Chapter 24Play CH 25Particle ZooBuild the Standard ModelSort quarks, leptons and bosons and assemble the Standard Model, piece by piece.From Chapter 25Play

Course-wide games

Drill the whole course

Questions, terms and cards from all 25 finished chapters, mixed together. New chapters join the games as they are written.

Game 1 · Quiz Show. Twelve questions drawn from 50 across the course — a fresh mix every time you play.

Live from the lab

Quantum Quiz Show: Grand Tour

Dr. Q, your host

Welcome, contestants! 12 questions, 30 seconds each, and one mad scientist judging you, lovingly. Answer fast for a speed bonus; answer right in a row and your points multiply.

  • 100 per answer
  • +100 speed bonus
  • ×2 streak bonus

Game 2 · Vocab Marathon. Each leg deals 18 terms from a 139-term course glossary. Clear it with three mistakes or fewer, then run the next leg.

Leg 1Legs cleared 0
Vocab match · timed

Vocab Match Marathon · Leg 1

Match each term to its definition, against the clock.

  • 18 pairs in 3 rounds
  • 100 points a match, more on a streak
  • −25 per mistake · speed bonus each round
  • Finish with 3 mistakes or fewer to win

Game 3 · Flashcard Gym. Train one chapter's whole deck, or an even mix from every chapter. Either way, your spaced-repetition boxes are saved with the chapter.

Leitner flashcards

Flashcard Gym · every chapter

0/50 mastered
Card 1 of 50, Leitner box 1 of 5. Press Space to flip, the arrow keys to move, K if you knew it, L if you are still learning.
1 / 500 rated this round
50Box 1
0Box 2
0Box 3
0Box 4
0Box 5

Saved on this device. Knew it moves a card up a box; still learning sends it back to box 1. Boxes 4–5 count as mastered.