Understanding the Quantum World. Episode 15, Quantum Properties of Light
(2020, original release: 2019)

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Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (36 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
7161710
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

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

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Erica W. Carlson

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2019

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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