Unit 1 · The Classical World Cracks
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Waves 101: The Mathematics of Wiggles
Amplitude, wavelength, interference — the vocabulary every quantum idea is written in
Quantum Academy · presented by Dr. Quincy Quantenstein
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Waves 101: The Mathematics of Wiggles
Amplitude, wavelength, interference — the vocabulary every quantum idea is written in
- ≈ 38 min
- 55 scenes
- Narrated by Dr. Q
- Captions
Generated from the same script as the written lesson, so every word matches the text. Uses your device's voice when it has one; without one, the lesson plays silently with captions. Keys: Space play · ← → scenes · C captions · F full screen.
By the end you'll be able to
- Define amplitude, wavelength, period, frequency and phase, and use v = fλ to connect them
- Place any electromagnetic wave on the spectrum and convert between its frequency and wavelength with c = fλ
- Predict constructive or destructive interference from a path difference, and explain how Young's fringes revealed the wave nature of light
- Explain why intensity is proportional to amplitude squared, and why amplitudes must be added before squaring
- Represent a wave as a rotating arrow, or phasor, and add waves using complex numbers and e^(iθ)
- Explain why confining a wave allows only a discrete set of wavelengths, the seed of quantization