Understanding the Quantum World. Episode 23, Quantum Mechanics and Metals
(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) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
7161727
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

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

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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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