Quantum Mechanics. Episode 4, Particles of Light, Waves of Matter
(2019, original release: 2009)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2009
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
6748125
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Light propagates through space as a wave, but it exchanges its energy in the form of particles. You learn how Louis de Broglie showed that this weird wave-particle duality also applies to matter, and how Max Born inferred that this relationship makes quantum mechanics inherently probabilistic

Film

In Process Record

Benjamin Schumacher

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2009

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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