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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.
Course · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Robert Field · 2017
Quantum mechanics as chemists use it, taught by the spectroscopist Robert Field: the photoelectric effect and Compton scattering, boxes and oscillators, hydrogen and many-electron atoms. Strong on spectroscopy, the experimental face of quantization.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Sean Carroll · 2020
Sean Carroll tells the story from Planck and Einstein through Bohr, de Broglie and Schrödinger, then argues that the measurement problem is still open and makes his case for the many-worlds interpretation. Notice where the history ends and his interpretation begins.
Lecture · Yale
YaleCourses · Ramamurti Shankar · 2010
The lecture from Yale University PHYS 201 Fundamentals of Physics II (Ramamurti Shankar, 2010) that goes with Chapter 7. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
Lecture · Yale
YaleCourses · Ramamurti Shankar · 2010
The lecture from Yale University PHYS 201 Fundamentals of Physics II (Ramamurti Shankar, 2010) that goes with Chapter 10. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
Explainer · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare
Barton Zwiebach takes on the photoelectric effect in MIT's 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Spring 2016). Expect a university-level blackboard treatment; watch it after the lesson, with Einstein's equation from Part 4 and the stopping-potential graph from Part 5 in mind.
Documentary · Caltech
caltech · David Goodstein
Caltech's classic telecourse episode on how evidence that light can act like a particle led to quantum mechanics. After an opening on Planck and glowing bodies comes its photoelectric segment, with Einstein, electrons in a metal and the work function, and Millikan's lab: an animated second pass over sections 4 and 5, before the episode moves on to de Broglie, Bohr and Heisenberg.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · David Kaiser
Physicist and historian David Kaiser's lecture on the 'old quantum theory' of light. His posted notes show the arc: blackbody radiation and Planck's h, Lenard's threshold and Einstein's 1905 'heuristic' light quanta, some fifteen years of skepticism, then Compton scattering. History with the physics left in; the deeper setting for section 4.
Demo · Lancaster University
Lancaster University
Part 1 of a three-part Lancaster University lab series that, in its own description, uses the photoelectric effect to measure Planck's constant: section 5's measurement on a teaching bench. 'Part 2: The Experiment' (5 min) follows on the same channel.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Robert Field · 2017
The lecture from MIT 5.61 Physical Chemistry (Robert Field, 2017) that goes with Chapter 4. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.