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Series · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Katie Mack · 2023
Ten five-minute episodes hosted by the cosmologist Katie Mack: duality, quantization, uncertainty, superposition, entanglement, probability, tunnelling and quantum computing. The friendliest possible on-ramp, and a quick refresher before any chapter.
Course · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Allan Adams · 2013
Allan Adams' celebrated course starts from superposition and the experimental facts, builds the wavefunction, operators and the Schrödinger equation, then tours scattering, hydrogen, identical particles and band structure before closing on entanglement and Bell's theorem. Calculus and a little linear algebra are enough to keep up.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Jim Al-Khalili · 2025
A Friday Evening Discourse recorded at the Ri in November 2025, a century after Heisenberg's breakthrough: a hundred years of quantum theory, from the 1920s pioneers to the technologies being built now. Keep asking which claims are experiment and which are interpretation.
Explainer · Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermilab's Don Lincoln on the electron's magnetic moment, the record-breaking agreement between quantum electrodynamics and experiment that Part 5 of this lesson describes. Six minutes on how a theory earns trust: with numbers that match.
Demo · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
A three-minute Perimeter Institute demonstration that measures Planck's constant with a cheap, simple setup built around LEDs. It makes section 3's exchange rate tangible, and it previews section 6, where an LED's colour is set by its band gap through E = hf.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Philip Ball
Science writer Philip Ball, author of the book 'Beyond Weird', starts from quantum physics' reputation as obscure and impenetrable and explores how its counterintuitive principles create the world we experience. Watch it beside section 4's five big ideas, and keep track of which claims are about experiments and which are about interpretations.
Explainer · Fermilab
Fermilab
A short episode from Fermilab's Quantum Physics series with Don Lincoln and colleagues. Watch it alongside Chapter 1.
Lecture · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Shohini Ghose · 2020
Physicist Shohini Ghose of Wilfrid Laurier University surveys the quantum technologies that grow out of superposition and entanglement, from quantum computers to secure communication. A clear public lecture given at Perimeter Institute in March 2020.
Lecture · Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics · Brandon Brown
A talk at KITP by the physicist Brandon Brown, author of the biography 'Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War', on Planck the historical figure rather than Planck the formula. Use it to put a person behind this section: a conservative master of thermodynamics who still published what the data forced on him.
Explainer · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Katie Mack · 2023
A short episode from Perimeter Institute's Quantum 101 series with Katie Mack. Watch it alongside Chapter 3.