- Introduction to the course
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Medium of instructions
English
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Mode of learning
Self study
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Mode of Delivery
Video and Text Based
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Course and certificate fees
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certificate availability
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certificate providing authority
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The syllabus
Introduction to the course
Basics I - The birth and foundations of quantum mechanics
- The Nature of Light
- Fields, Waves and Interference
- Young's Double Slit Experiment
- The Blackbody Radiation before Max Planck
- The Blackbody Radiation after Max Planck
- Check your understanding (lectures 2-6)
- Quizzes for lectures 2-6
- The Photoelectric effect
- Bohr's atomic model
- The Franck-Hertz experiment
- The Compton effect
- Pair creation and annihilation
- Check your understanding (lectures 7-11)
- Quizzes for lectures 7-11
- Waves strike back: Bragg diffraction and the de Broglie hypothesis
- The wave-particle duality
- The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
- Check your understanding (lectures 12-14)
- Quizzes for lectures 12-14
- The wavefunction and the measurement problem
- The state vector, observables and the measurement postulate
- The Schrödinger's equation
- Atomic orbitals
- Check your understanding (lectures 15-18)
- Quizzes for lectures 15-18
Basics II - Mysteries and paradoxes of the quantum world
- Angular momentum in classical physics
- Spin: do particles rotate?
- Commutation relations and quantum algebra
- Check your understanding (lectures 19-21)
- Quizzes for lectures 19-21
- Is information fundamental?
- The spinning world of spinors
- A weird quantum rotation
- The photon's polarization and spin
- Check your understanding (lectures 22-25)
- Quizzes for lectures 22-25
- Quantum superposition: being in two states at the same time
- The Time-Energy uncertainty
- The tunnel effect: jumping over forbidden barriers
- Vacuum zero-point energy, virtual particles and the Casimir effect
- The Bohr-Einstein Debate
- Check your understanding (lectures 26-30)
- Quizzes for lectures 26-30
- Quantum indistinguishability
- Quantum entanglement
- The EPR paradox (original version)
- The EPR paradox (modern form)
- Faster than light transmission?
- Schrödinger`s cat: ``dead or alive´´, or ´´dead and alive´´?
- Quantum decoherence and the measurement problem
- Check your understanding (lectures 31-37)
- Quizzes for lectures 31-37
- Extra lecture: Quantum physics from the perspective of philosophical idealism
Conclusion
- Further readings and outlook
Mathematical appendix
- Appendix - Part I : Elementary mathematical introduction
- Appendix - Part II : waves and complex numbers
- Appendix - Part III : more on waves and some calculus
- Linear momentum and kinetic energy