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1) Elements
Publisher
Group Nine Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Elements is your science-loving best friend, tasked with keeping you updated and interested in all the compelling, innovative and groundbreaking science happening around us.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Close with one of Professor Carlson’s favorite topics: superconductivity. While electrons lose energy to resistance when they flow through a metal, this is not true of superconductors. Learn how quantum stability allows superconductors to conduct electricity with zero resistance, then step back and summarize the high points of your quantum tour.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore the principles and paradoxes of quantum mechanics with exceptional rigor and clarity—and using minimal mathematics—in 24 episodes. With the guidance of Professor Erica W. Carlson, you’ll get a fundamental understanding of major breakthroughs in the field (and who made them), experiments that demonstrate quantum phenomena, and quantum theory’s many applications and insights.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Study the most celebrated challenge to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics: the paradox proposed by Albert Einstein and his collaborators Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (and later updated by David Bohm). Is quantum mechanics an incomplete theory due to hidden variables that guide the outcome of quantum interactions? Examine this idea and the experiments designed to test it.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Electrons don't just orbit the nucleus, they simultaneously exist as standing waves. Go deeper into what standing wave modes look like in one, two, and three dimensions, discovering that these shapes explain the quantization of energy states in an atom. As usual, Professor Carlson introduces useful analogies, including the standing waves produced in a vibrating drum head.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Among Einstein’s insights was that light comes in discrete packets of energy called photons. Explore the photoelectric effect, which prompted Einstein’s discovery. See a do-it-yourself project that demonstrates the photoelectric effect. Close by surveying applications of the quantum theory of light to phenomena such as lasers, fluorescent dyes, photosynthesis, and vitamin D production in skin.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Return to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to see how quantum uncertainty also extends to energy and time. This has a startling implication for energy conservation, suggesting that short-lived “virtual” particles can pop into existence out of nothing (as long as they don’t stay around for long). Consider evidence for this phenomenon in the Lamb shift and Casimir effect.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Anyone who makes use of a memory stick, a solid-state hard drive, or a smartphone relies on one of the most baffling aspects of the quantum world: quantum tunneling. Professor Carlson uses a roller coaster analogy, combined with your newly acquired insight into wave mechanics, to make this feat of quantum sorcery (the equivalent of walking through walls) perfectly logical.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Analyze how metals conduct electricity, discovering that, in a sense, electrons “surf” from one metal atom to the next on a quantum mechanical wave. Probe the causes of electrical resistance and why metals can never be perfect conductors. Finally, use the Pauli exclusion principle to understand the optimum distribution of electrons in the different quantum states of metal atoms.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Review the major theories proposed by physicists trying to make sense of the paradoxes of the quantum world. Look at the Copenhagen interpretation, Einstein’s realist view, the many worlds interpretation, quantum Bayesianism, non-local hidden variables, and other creative attempts to explain what is going on in a realm that seems to be governed by probability alone.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Continue your investigation of the counterintuitive quantum world by contrasting angular momentum for planets and other classical objects with analogous phenomena in quantum particles. Cover the celebrated Stern–Gerlach experiment, which in the 1920s showed that spin is quantized for atoms and can only take on a very limited number of discrete values.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Professor Stephen Hawking reveals our true potential in a radical new science show which challenges a selection of volunteers and the viewer to think like the greatest geniuses and answer some of humanity's toughest questions. Using large scale experiments and incredible stunts, we'll follow the volunteers' journeys as they come to grips with molecular biology, astrophysics and quantum mechanics.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Can we work out where the universe comes from? With the help of racing cars, ice-skaters, balloons and running tracks, Hawking leads his three intrepid souls to a deeper understanding of the evolution of the universe than the average physics major.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Begin your journey into the quantum world by focusing on one of its most baffling features: the behavior of quantum entities as both particles and waves. Following her approach of presenting analogies over equations, Professor Carlson gives a handy way of visualizing this paradox. She then takes you further into quantum weirdness by using a slinky to show how waves can be quantized.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dive deeper into the interactions of light with matter. Starting with a hydrogen atom, examine the changes in energy and angular momentum when an electron transitions from one orbital to another. See how the diverse possibilities create a “fingerprint” specific to every type of atom, and how this is the basis for spectroscopy, which can determine the composition of stars.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Having covered electron spin in the previous episode, now turn to orbital angular momentum. Again, a phenomenon familiar in classical physics relating to planets has an analogue in the quantum domain (although with profound differences). This leads to a discussion of permanent magnets, which Professor Carlson calls “a piece of quantum physics that you can hold in your hand.”
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Taught by noted physicist Dr. Don Lincoln of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, this course follows the search for a theory that explains all physical reality-a theory of everything. Dr. Lincoln covers recent developments in particle physics and cosmology, plus the background needed to appreciate the centuries-long search for this holy grail of science. Only high-school-level math is used.
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