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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 · Barton Zwiebach · 2016
The same course rebuilt as 115 short segments of roughly ten to twenty minutes, each devoted to one idea, so you can watch exactly the concept a chapter needs. Barton Zwiebach is meticulous: every step on the board is justified.
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 · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Robert Field · 2017
The lecture from MIT 5.61 Physical Chemistry (Robert Field, 2017) that goes with Chapter 2. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
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.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare
A full lecture from MIT's 8.03SC Physics III: Vibrations and Waves (Fall 2016). Prof. Yen-Jie Lee adds two electromagnetic waves on the blackboard, shows how the resulting intensity depends on their phase difference, then uses path difference and the phase flip on reflection to explain the colours of a soap film. Best watched after the lesson.
Demo · Utah State University
Physics Demos · Boyd F. Edwards
This section's two-loudspeaker example made real, from Boyd F. Edwards' Utah State University demonstration series: two speakers play the same 2,000 Hz tone (a wavelength of about 17 cm in air) and set up an interference pattern in the room. Check each loud and quiet spot against the rule: whole wavelengths of path difference reinforce, odd half-wavelengths cancel.
Lecture · Yale
YaleCourses · Ramamurti Shankar
The deep dive: the Yale lecture just before Ramamurti Shankar's quantum unit. The start jumps to the 'Young's double slit experiment' chapter (8:20), where he insists that intensities do not add, writes the combined intensity as (ψ₁ + ψ₂)², and redoes the sum with complex exponentials and arrows 'in anticipation of quantum mechanics': sections 5 to 7 at university pace.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
A segment of MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Spring 2016): Barton Zwiebach reviews this section's toolkit (the conjugate, |z|² = z·z*, e^(iθ) = cos θ + i sin θ), then explains why the wavefunction must be complex, since the Schrödinger equation contains i, and how Born's |ψ|² turns it into the real probabilities we measure. The payoff of this section's last paragraph: classically the complex arrow is auxiliary, in quantum mechanics it is essential.
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.