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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 · Oxford
University of Oxford · James Binney · 2009–10
James Binney's Oxford course, given over Michaelmas Term 2009 and Hilary Term 2010 and built on probability amplitudes and Dirac notation from the very first lecture. Highlights: tunnelling and radioactive decay, the EPR argument and Bell's inequality, spin and the Stern–Gerlach experiment, and a full treatment of hydrogen.
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 · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · Michel H. Devoret · 2025
"From macroscopic quantum phenomena to artificial atoms": Michel Devoret on how a circuit's quantized energy levels — measured in the same experiments — became the foundation of today's superconducting qubits.
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.
Explainer · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare
Barton Zwiebach presents de Broglie's proposal at the blackboard in MIT's 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Spring 2016). Expect university-level reasoning about how the energy and momentum relations of the photon were extended to every particle; watch it after Parts 1 and 2.