Course Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Introducing Quantum Mechanics

• Confident physicists
• Light as a wave
• Light as particles
• Electron energy levels
• Matter as waves
• Electrons as waves
• The origin of quantum mechanics

Chapter 2 – Wave functions and uncertainty

• Interference patterns
• Probabilistic world
• Wavefunctions and interference
• Impact of observation
• Superposition
• Uncertainty
• The Copenhagen Interpretation
• Schrödinger’s cat

Chapter 3 – Elementary particles

• The standard model
• Quantum Field Theory
• Mass and charge
• Particle spin
• Other properties

Chapter 4 – Forces

• Electromagnetism
• Strong and weak forces
• Higgs field
• Explaining chemistry
• Explaining electricity
• Gauge invariance

Chapter 5 – Interactions

• Feynman diagrams
• Virtual particles
• Quantum tunnelling
• Particle paths

Chapter 6 – Entanglement

• What is entanglement?
• Revisiting polarization
• The Bell test
• Quantum computers

Chapter 7 – Reality

• The real world
• It doesn’t make sense
• Gravity

Conclusion