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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.
Series · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Various speakers
Thirty evening talks from the Royal Institution's lecture theatre in London, where Faraday once lectured: quantum fields, quantum biology, sensors, the quantum internet and the meaning of it all. Pick any one; each stands alone.
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.
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.
Explainer · Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermilab's Dr. Don Lincoln introduces the big ideas behind the most famous experiment in quantum physics: what waves do at two slits, what particles do, and why quantum objects fit neither picture. It sets you up for Parts 1 to 4; notice the questions it leaves open, because Parts 5 to 7 answer them.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Neil Johnson
A clip from Neil Johnson's 1999 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures that explains wave–particle duality with double-slit demonstrations. Use it as a warm-up for Feynman's three runs: for each demonstration, ask whether the result is lumps that add, like bullets, or bands that interfere, like water waves.