Year of release: 2015
Manufacturer: The Great Courses
By Benjamin Schumacher
Duration: 12:06:24
Type of handing out material: Video Tutorial
English language

In the following decades, a series of great physicists built on Planck's discovery, including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, and many others, developing quantum mechanics into the most successful physical theory ever devised—the general framework that underlies our understanding of nature at its most fundamental level.
Quantum mechanics gives us a picture of the world that is so radically counterintuitive that it has changed our perspective on reality itself, raising profound questions about concepts such as cause and effect, measurement, and information. Despite its seemingly mysterious nature, quantum mechanics has a broad range of applications in fields such as chemistry, computer science, and cryptography. It also plays an important role in the development and innovation of some of today's most amazing—and important—technologies, including lasers, transistors, microscopes, semiconductors, and computer chips.
Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World gives you the logical tools to grasp the paradoxes and astonishing insights of quantum mechanics in 24 half-hour lectures designed specifically for nonscientists and taught by award-winning Professor Benjamin Schumacher of Kenyon College.
No comparable presentation of this subject is so deep, so challenging, and yet accessible. Quantum Mechanics is generously illustrated with diagrams, demonstrations, and experiments and is taught by a professor who is both a riveting lecturer and a pioneer in the field, for Professor Schumacher is an innovator in the exciting new discipline of quantum information.

24 lectures | 30 minutes each
1 The Quantum Enigma
2 The View from 1900
3 Two Revolutionaries—Planck and Einstein
4 Particles of Light, Waves of Matter
5 Standing Waves and Stable Atoms
6 Uncertainty
7 Complementarity and the Great Debate
8 Paradoxes of Interference
9 States, Amplitudes, and Probabilities
10 Particles That Spin
11 Quantum Twins
12 The Gregarious Particles
13 Antisymmetric and Antisocial
14 The Most Important Minus Sign in the World
15 Entanglement
16 Bell and Beyond
17 All the Myriad Ways
18 Much Ado about Nothing
19 Quantum Cloning
20 Quantum Cryptography
21 Bits, Qubits, and Ebits
22 Quantum Computers
23 Many Worlds or One?
24 The Great Smoky Dragon

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