Lecture 2: Experimental Facts of Life

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  • Опубликовано: 9 май 2016
  • MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2013
    View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/8-04S13
    Instructor: Allan Adams
    In this lecture, Prof. Adams gives a panoramic view on various experimental evidence that indicates the inadequacy of pre-quantum physics. He concludes the lecture with a short discussion on Bell's inequality.
    License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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  • @nicostadi
    @nicostadi 4 года назад +1045

    He should have a hand held mic so he can drop it at the end of all lectures...

  • @TheKingBeyondEverything
    @TheKingBeyondEverything 2 года назад +594

    It's so good we're living in this age where information is so easily accessible and MIT like Universities are enough generous to provide such valuable lessons for free .

    • @beagle989
      @beagle989 2 года назад +15

      we'd be a lot further along as a society if the internet was invented a thousand years ago

    • @TheKingBeyondEverything
      @TheKingBeyondEverything 2 года назад +15

      @@beagle989 well, yeah😅.

    • @kidkique
      @kidkique 2 года назад +2

      Society doesnt value the knowledge, it only values the degree - which certainly is not availble for free

    • @TheKingBeyondEverything
      @TheKingBeyondEverything 2 года назад +16

      @@kidkique Well, degree is able to give you instant/short-term benefits but knowledge is eternally beneficial.

    • @andreaszweili8593
      @andreaszweili8593 2 года назад +12

      Absolutely, instead of watching a stupid television show, I can relax to a physics lesson from the other side of the world.

  • @debadiptobiswas5611
    @debadiptobiswas5611 5 лет назад +293

    What I like about his teaching is that he not only teaches physics but also the history and the drama that revolves around it.

    • @maxhagenauer24
      @maxhagenauer24 Год назад +1

      Why is the history and drama important?

    • @austinbrown7183
      @austinbrown7183 Год назад +11

      These are the facts, you're going to eat it and you're going to like it!
      I like a little bit of history, drama, and humor to lighten the load a bit. If I wanted a monotone boring guy I'd just read a textbook...

    • @maxgeorge1463
      @maxgeorge1463 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@maxhagenauer24 its exceedingly difficult to focus on foreign, theoretical material for an hour and a half straight. Tossing in arbitrary historical facts lightens the mood and refocuses the mind.

    • @A1.SoMoSa
      @A1.SoMoSa 5 месяцев назад +1

      fr , bros kinda funny as well , i do computer science and maths , completely wrong field but his teaching makes thiis topic alot more interesting

    • @ishaanghosh732
      @ishaanghosh732 Месяц назад

      @@maxhagenauer24it’s interesting

  • @antikoerper256
    @antikoerper256 3 года назад +79

    Thank God that the Internet exist and the fact that such knowledge is freely accessible through it.

  • @mitocw
    @mitocw  8 лет назад +300

    Fair Use credit updated for the music, video quality upgraded to 1080p.

    • @untwerf
      @untwerf 8 лет назад +1

      Nice! 1080p HYPE!!!

    • @untwerf
      @untwerf 8 лет назад +3

      Nice! 1080p HYPE!!!

    • @pob-4810
      @pob-4810 8 лет назад +19

      I just want to really say thank you for the open lectures. I'm just really bored and learning about this is very fun

    • @antoniolewis1016
      @antoniolewis1016 7 лет назад

      Whoo yah!

    • @apburner1
      @apburner1 7 лет назад +3

      What was the resolution of the original recording? If you are claiming that you can increase resolution I am not sending my kid to MIT.

  • @JosephTomasone
    @JosephTomasone 4 месяца назад +35

    As someone whose school days are long behind him but who has a late passing interest in quantum mechanics, I'm not only grateful for this being online but so badly wish that I had attended MIT and had this gentleman as my professor. He is effortlessly going beyond the basics yet not losing me in the math - which heretofore has been a significant challenge in my self-study journey.

    • @Feliz_BroDad
      @Feliz_BroDad 29 дней назад +2

      Don’t place limits and caps on what you can do or achieve… not too late to go enroll in this mans class, awkward, maybe but impossible, no…

  • @DaytakTV
    @DaytakTV 8 лет назад +959

    Professor Adams is a phenomenal lecturer!

    • @CaptainCalculus
      @CaptainCalculus 7 лет назад +12

      hear hear!! a brilliant lecturer

    • @nimagaousmane2702
      @nimagaousmane2702 6 лет назад +5

      What is he drinking? You guys un the u.s... such a mystery about this drink

    • @katekane6697
      @katekane6697 6 лет назад +3

      Yes. He is smart.

    • @Peddayana
      @Peddayana 6 лет назад +5

      Yet not comparable to Sir Walter Lewin

    • @samuelallan7452
      @samuelallan7452 6 лет назад +1

      sundar ram Levin was amazing. And I believe he got totally framed

  • @mabdinur85
    @mabdinur85 5 лет назад +63

    I like how he dropped such an insight with respect to Bell's inequality not working in Quantum Mechanics and just say's "see you next Tuesday". That's like dropping the mic and walking off the set in a very funny stand up comedy routine ... you know you have to watch the next episode to be satisfied after that bombshell.

    • @ciel1083
      @ciel1083 Год назад

      Wonder what his lectures are gonna be like after they proved bell right last year.

  • @tayday424
    @tayday424 2 года назад +35

    quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, classical mechanics: these lectures are intimidating if you go in expecting to understand the first time you watch. Its much more enjoyable to watch them several times, taking in more meaning with each viewing. Just as interesting as the best shows on netflix. Has more staying power than most good novels.

  • @e4rohan
    @e4rohan 8 лет назад +167

    That is one really passionate human being

  • @sadakoprochichi
    @sadakoprochichi 7 лет назад +567

    This teacher is incredible! The enthusiasm is so contagious. I wish I could take this class :(

    • @firstatheist
      @firstatheist 7 лет назад +50

      you can; all the HW, assignments, notes, and lectures are online

    • @Cipher71
      @Cipher71 7 лет назад +28

      DUDE! THANK YOU! I had wondered at one point yesterday if they had the HW's, etc accessible online, but hadn't remembered to check on that. Thank you for reminding me. I'm studying physics at Georgia Tech, and they are TERRIBLE at teaching Quantum 1 and 2 here. I love professor Adams' lectures. He's so much better at both explaining everything *and* making it seem interesting. Plus, his recommendation for that book that approaches QM from a philosophical standpoint is exactly what I've been looking for. I wish we had professors like him here.

    • @xipuli2264
      @xipuli2264 7 лет назад +5

      Which website particularly? I’m interested in quantum mechanics, I want to practice more so that I can understand those concepts more deeply.
      Thank you!

    • @zagyex
      @zagyex 7 лет назад +17

      you just took it.

    • @meowrkerd4rker_
      @meowrkerd4rker_ 6 лет назад +3

      @clay miller: what book is it?

  • @d.v.faller9251
    @d.v.faller9251 2 года назад +92

    Wonderful lectures by Prof. Adams. Same topics as when I took 8.04, but delivered with such enthusiasm and with memorable analogies. I admire the way in which he defers using the actual names of certain quantum properties, calling them instead hardness, color, smooth and chunky. This gives the students a way to grasp the concepts, without even mentioning confusing terms such as quanta and spin.
    Greatly enjoyed his quick allusion to the original Star Trek and red shirts in Lecture 1.
    We all appreciate MIT's generosity and sense of public service in providing these lectures to the world. Years ago some of us paid tuition for them. Now everyone can appreciate the excellent teaching.

    • @user-td6qw2mj4y
      @user-td6qw2mj4y 4 месяца назад

      Is there someone that I can talk to. . This is bullshit... Really HEY, LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. I CAN DO A BETTER JOB . WILL YOU HELP ME HELP YOU. THIS GUY. YOU BETTER HAVE THAT ON MY DESK BY 8AM. NO KIDDING. IM JUST WONDERING IF THIS DIPSHIT COULD FIGURE OUT A 9X9 SQ BY 123 IN LESS THEN 7 MINUTES. YOU ARE BRING FKT.. JUST BE GLAD THAT IM NOT THERE. WE COULD LEARN SOME REAL PHYSICS. 😊

    • @AAscension
      @AAscension 3 дня назад

      Could you explain me why this course is called 8.04?

  • @michaeldebellis4202
    @michaeldebellis4202 Год назад +13

    This guy reminds me of Gilbert Strang, also from MIT, who has online recording of his lectures on Linear Algebra, another topic (like quantum mechanics) I never thought I would get but after the first lectures, Strang made so much sense compared to the other books and materials I tried to understand that I really understood it and to my surprise I stuck with the lectures to the end including doing homework problems from one of Strang’s books. We’ll see how long I make it in this one, this is harder than Linear Algebra, but after the intro lectures I already feel like I understand some of these concepts in a way that many pop science books and videos never achieved.

  • @meetghelani5222
    @meetghelani5222 Год назад +14

    I'm an undergrad in my final year of my Bachelor of Science, i've almost completed my taste of the Quantum Mechanics i'm gonna get but i love how this guy teaches and will be here until the end!

  • @stuartofblyth
    @stuartofblyth 7 лет назад +6

    What Rutherford *actually* said (4:40) was "It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you". As a Kiwi living and working in England he would have had little interest in 10-pin bowling.
    He also said "All science is either physics or stamp collecting", with which I heartily concur. Two other favourites: "An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid", and "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment".

  • @XXXoXXoXXXX
    @XXXoXXoXXXX 7 лет назад +182

    Thank you for putting these out there MIT!

  • @jonchicoine
    @jonchicoine 2 года назад +46

    I don’t remember my professors having anywhere near this level of enthusiasm… love this guy. (Once the math kicks in, in the next video, I’m in over my head)

    • @brucelarsen6650
      @brucelarsen6650 2 года назад +8

      I have the same reaction to the math. My Mother said it was because she was seriously frightened by a mechanical adding machine when she was pregnant with me, but I think THAT is some kind of "Quantum Leap".

  • @alexolah805
    @alexolah805 11 месяцев назад +5

    This dude is a awesome lecturer, I failed math twice in highschool but the way he explains things makes it so easy to grasp

  • @KingOfTheDerp
    @KingOfTheDerp 11 месяцев назад +16

    He's a super dope lecturer who goes at a great pace, explains nuisances very well, and is very entertaining to watch. Thanks for uploading these!

    • @arizonacolour8793
      @arizonacolour8793 4 месяца назад

      So you watch to be entertained or to learn??

    • @KingOfTheDerp
      @KingOfTheDerp 4 месяца назад +1

      Both :D@@arizonacolour8793

    • @citizen240
      @citizen240 19 дней назад

      nuances instead of nuisances?

  • @frqgrenade
    @frqgrenade 6 лет назад +33

    38:54 the book is "Einstein in Berlin" by Thomas Levenson

  • @portlyoldman
    @portlyoldman 3 года назад +19

    Exhausted but exhilarated by the entire lecture series so far. Wonderful series, fantastic lecturer wishing I was eighteen and could take the course!!

  • @Constyish
    @Constyish Год назад +25

    Incredible stuff! Thanks MIT for putting it online, thanks prof Adams for these great, passionate and so well put lectures!!

  • @berkeleycodingacademy7015
    @berkeleycodingacademy7015 Год назад +3

    Love the way Professor Adams ends lectures with a flourish!

  • @oliverandm
    @oliverandm 5 лет назад +25

    Allan Adams encapsulates what a good teacher is! The enthusiasm, the ease of communication, the humor, and that fucking outfit! Love him!

  • @ramko685
    @ramko685 7 лет назад +24

    professor Adam is dope at explaining and being enthusiastic

  • @Re-bl5sr
    @Re-bl5sr 3 года назад +26

    I've never taken a QP class in my life but Im fascinated by this. Whats even more fascinating is that I can actually understand most of it. 👏 to this chaps enthusiasm - goes a lomg way. Saved some for larer viewing.

  • @EnchantedGardenGnome
    @EnchantedGardenGnome 9 месяцев назад +1

    He's AWESOME!!!! Oh my God, I am so thankful for this existing. This is the best explanation of this subject I've found yet in a way that's easy to understand and SUPER engaging. Yay!!!

  • @dadinggo
    @dadinggo 4 года назад

    I love this guys enthusiasm for the subject.

  • @dixithanoop
    @dixithanoop 5 лет назад +11

    This is one hell of a lecture! Particularly, the Bell Inequality part. I still can't believe the real world is so different.

  • @sirmongoose
    @sirmongoose 11 месяцев назад +15

    Professor Gordon Freeman teaches me Quantum Physics. I always knew I needed this. Thank you MIT.

    • @UnchainedEruption
      @UnchainedEruption 10 месяцев назад +2

      Lol He does look like Gordon Freeman. I can't unsee that now!

    • @samuelverhoeve1564
      @samuelverhoeve1564 5 месяцев назад

      Makes sense considering Gordon Freeman canonically graduated from MIT

  • @fiftysevensix
    @fiftysevensix 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you very much. I truly appreciate the content and of course, the talented staff. Bravo.

  • @pedrojuan341
    @pedrojuan341 Год назад

    Great explanation! Thank you Mr. Adams!

  • @sanatanmeaning
    @sanatanmeaning 5 лет назад +11

    Sir Allen Adams can make really good students because of his wonderful *PERSONALITY* and *TEACHING*
    THANKS MIT OCW

    • @zuesbenz
      @zuesbenz Год назад

      yes i know, indian professors are assholes in general and many do not know the material clearly enough in their head to teach properly.

  • @erwinmulders
    @erwinmulders 5 лет назад +13

    good luck you young guys, I wish I didn't make that many wrong choices when I was young, cause I always loved learning, I just didn't like schools, now I am older, I even was a teacher for a while before I got ill, that was the best time of my life, good to see you have such great teachers like this man, you are really lucky with this guy, he has passion in teaching, not every teacher has that ability, just drag yourself through cause it will pay of in the end, way to go folks and thank you for this video and all the others

  • @noahhysi8622
    @noahhysi8622 3 года назад +7

    Claps at the end of a lecture, amazing

  • @tikkar466
    @tikkar466 2 года назад

    Amazing lecturer with total involvement.

  • @KasenB100
    @KasenB100 8 лет назад +35

    49:38 music: Комбат - я солдат

  • @binxuwang4960
    @binxuwang4960 3 года назад +3

    Maybe he is a theorist but he has such a great great understanding of classical experiments and can expose the core core idea of it and discard the technical details as gossip news is so inspiring~
    His lecture may be on par with Feynmann s

  • @adi29raj
    @adi29raj Год назад +1

    How is this not a tv series ...I am getting hooked at the end of every episode

  • @manueljenkin95
    @manueljenkin95 3 года назад +2

    Thank you very much for this fantastic lecture!

  • @tehwubbles
    @tehwubbles 3 года назад +4

    When the students laugh at 14:30, it really shows that those are people that truly want to be there. I'm just trying to imagine telling the same story in the same way to lowerclassmen undergrads at my university and the crickets I'd get

    • @mr195lion1
      @mr195lion1 Год назад

      i didn't get it why is it funny?

  • @bhabeshgoswami3897
    @bhabeshgoswami3897 7 лет назад +4

    Great Professor Adams as always you have kept my mouth wide open.............

  • @r7ndom
    @r7ndom 2 года назад

    Adams is such a great professor. So good.

  • @elnurhajiyev2477
    @elnurhajiyev2477 4 года назад

    that was one hell of a lecture and he nailed it at the end!

  • @shrodikan
    @shrodikan 2 года назад +5

    Thank you MIT and Professor Adams! This series has enriched my life and helped me understand phenomena I hadn't before.

  • @Tim-Kaa
    @Tim-Kaa 3 года назад +5

    Fantastic course. I'm in accounting and I watched first 1 lectures in one go. Will be looking forward to download lectures, materials and actually watching through the whole course.

  • @peytonsidders1471
    @peytonsidders1471 7 лет назад

    Some of the best lectures I've seen. Definitely earns his salary.

  • @rock00dom
    @rock00dom 3 года назад

    That see you on Tuesday after he finishes the lecture is just so badass!

  •  7 лет назад +49

    Bell's Inequality!!! That was awesome

    • @MC-br1gk
      @MC-br1gk 7 лет назад +3

      I wonder if the stuff in quantum mechanics, the sort of building blocks of "everything", is sort of like the stem cells in the biological world, or vice versa?

    • @Ryndae-l
      @Ryndae-l 7 лет назад +4

      Marc Castro Well, stem cells are not building blocks in the same sense. They are cells that did not yet become a specific type of cells, but your body is not made of stem cells. It is made of differenciated (non stem) cells, with *maybe* a tiny reserve of stem.
      Matter is made of quantum stuff. All of it.

    • @user-gw8ch8nw2d
      @user-gw8ch8nw2d 3 года назад

      @refresh It's a pretty inaccurate analogy, but if it helps I guess...

  • @angry4rtichoke646
    @angry4rtichoke646 4 года назад +8

    I wish I could go to those office hours, this is awesome!

  • @daiduongdaviddinh140
    @daiduongdaviddinh140 6 лет назад +2

    I love this lecture so much. Thank you Prof. Adams for inspiring us Quantum Mechanics

  • @hussainrazik1251
    @hussainrazik1251 6 лет назад +1

    I have always read about Bell’s Inequality.... this is the first time I understood it as it stands... thank you MIT and prof...

  • @ArnabBose
    @ArnabBose 6 лет назад +5

    1:18:15 - didn't we establish in lecture 1 though that we assign two properties simultaneously to an electron.

  • @harrysharma1
    @harrysharma1 5 лет назад +5

    The way sir connected the first lecture to this is outstanding, The moment 55:01 I realised this

  • @wesrobertson8753
    @wesrobertson8753 2 года назад

    Everything is MIT. Thank you so much for allowing me to study. Without you I'd only have half the material. Then to be able to rewatch after advancing study. Thank you.

  • @larrylyons9362
    @larrylyons9362 8 лет назад +1

    Thanks for the lecture. Much appreciated.

  • @hasanxnv
    @hasanxnv 7 лет назад +5

    Amazing. Prof Allan makes it so much interesting. Thanks to both MIT and the professor

  • @manuelvazquezacosta9845
    @manuelvazquezacosta9845 6 лет назад +3

    I have a question regarding the last point about the Bell's Inequality. In the formula, the term N(H, not B) was actually established as meaningless in the first lesson: You can't say anything about the color of 'hard' electrons. So, something happened that we now can do an experiment with hard and not black (white) electrons.

  • @TheKillerant1976
    @TheKillerant1976 7 лет назад +1

    Great job, it is phenomenal!

  • @Tesseract9630
    @Tesseract9630 7 лет назад

    Professor Adams is an awesome teacher.

  • @JohnVKaravitis
    @JohnVKaravitis 5 лет назад +4

    If I am learning MIT-level Quantum Mechanics form RUclips, why do I have to pay ANY tuition at my podunk state college?

    • @yourlordandsaviouryeesusbe2998
      @yourlordandsaviouryeesusbe2998 5 лет назад

      To obtain a degree. No one knows that you've actually attained the required proficiency in the subject unless you appear for exams.

  • @RajPatel-di2qw
    @RajPatel-di2qw 7 лет назад +27

    thank you MIT

  • @KenMac-ui2vb
    @KenMac-ui2vb 6 лет назад

    What a great find!
    This professor is awesome!

  • @raybroomall8383
    @raybroomall8383 6 лет назад

    Thank you Professor Adams and MIT. Professor Adams your artful ability to convey ideas borders on magic.

  • @mikefullermikefuller4711
    @mikefullermikefuller4711 6 лет назад +134

    A Higgs-boson particle goes into a church.
    The vicar says "We don't want your sort in here!"
    The Higgs-boson particle says
    "But you can't have mass without me!"

    • @dangerouslydubiousdoubleda9821
      @dangerouslydubiousdoubleda9821 6 лет назад +9

      its the interaction with the higgs field that gives particles mass so
      sorry to ruin your joke:(

    • @kdmdlo
      @kdmdlo 5 лет назад +1

      And as a follow-up, Mass is said by a Catholic Priest ... not Vicars (Vicars is more of an Anglican term). But that, in itself doesn't negatively impact the joke.

    • @Zzz-ghostyyy
      @Zzz-ghostyyy 5 лет назад

      Dangerously Dubious Double Davidson higgs boson is the outcome of the interaction with the Higgs field. Like any other fundamental particle

    • @earendilthebright5402
      @earendilthebright5402 5 лет назад +5

      Seems a bit forced

    • @Yetipfote
      @Yetipfote 5 лет назад +1

      badummtss

  • @vinaykushwaha5223
    @vinaykushwaha5223 7 лет назад +27

    Thanks MIT for this precious study material.

    • @battlewing221
      @battlewing221 4 года назад +2

      This is not study material lol

    • @masonroberts3461
      @masonroberts3461 3 года назад

      @@battlewing221 it is it’s information, you can study information end of.

  • @kierenmacmillan4854
    @kierenmacmillan4854 3 месяца назад

    Phenomenal lecturer giving a fantastic lecture.

  • @younited8959
    @younited8959 3 года назад +1

    Thank you thank you for uploading this classes ❤️😭 It's amazing

  • @augustinasskirsgilas2603
    @augustinasskirsgilas2603 7 лет назад +20

    Anyone knows where to find Heisenberg's lecture from 1930, that was mentioned in the video?

    • @kevinw.6342
      @kevinw.6342 6 лет назад +14

      you probably found it already, but here you go www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/heisenberg-lecture.html ;) if you just want to read the part hes talking about, page 297.

  • @MrFryfish
    @MrFryfish 8 лет назад +4

    The final statement was stately as a conclusion!
    WOW!

  • @thermonuclearwarhead
    @thermonuclearwarhead 5 лет назад

    Absolutely amazing!

  • @ankitanain3555
    @ankitanain3555 4 года назад +1

    He is so passionate and skillfull professor .....really I love these lectures

  • @reizkianyesaya8727
    @reizkianyesaya8727 4 года назад +8

    That closing statement literally gives me a goosebumps

  • @stuartdearaujo6245
    @stuartdearaujo6245 4 года назад +3

    Question: When describing Bell's Inequality, Professor Adams talked about an electron in two known states. (ie hardness and color). I thought in the previous lecture, we concluded that you couldn't know both the color and softness simultaneously. One of the characteristics must be in a state of superposition. Have I missed something?

  • @mathefeitosa
    @mathefeitosa 5 лет назад

    This is the best teacher I ever watched!

  • @alkistsironis4678
    @alkistsironis4678 2 года назад

    This man has some powerful energy while teaching i watched some lectures by accident and even if its not my type of videos he kept me listening and i understood some of them pretty easily... Good job!! Teach our teachers how to teach us man ... PLEASE

  • @ianzen
    @ianzen 7 лет назад +29

    I have a question about bell's inequality. During the first lecture he stated that with color and hardness boxes you can't simultaneously measure the color and hardness of an electron. But here with bell's inequality, the parameters each electron is satisfying is 2, isn't that contradictory to the conclusions of lecture one?

    • @pablo_brianese
      @pablo_brianese 6 лет назад +2

      I'm just guessing here, but I think you could make sense of it if N(A,B)≠N(B,A). We could declare that N(A,B) is the number of particles that had (for example) A=spin up in the x direction and B = spin up in the y direction where we measured their spin in the x direction first, and then we measured their spin in the y direction, and give a similar definition to N(B,A).
      I would love to be corrected if this is not the way to go about ir.

    • @aniketsaha7455
      @aniketsaha7455 5 лет назад +3

      But Bells inequality does not hold in quantum realm...

    • @qiangzhang8033
      @qiangzhang8033 5 лет назад

      Qiancheng Fu but you could always introduce time as a binary third parameter

    • @medhasingh4428
      @medhasingh4428 4 года назад

      U can understand the statement once u have the knowledge of quantum operators.

    • @harshulgupta4604
      @harshulgupta4604 4 года назад

      Same problem 😂

  • @helenslattery4356
    @helenslattery4356 2 года назад +6

    Hey;
    I am super new to physics and quantum. I have picked it all up pretty quickly, I love that it's the part that was always missing for me in classical physics taught in school. The beautiful degree of randomness is now explained so simply.
    In the last 6 months, I have bought and binge read range of books on physics, thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, information theory, graph theory, Bells to name a few, it's much more than my wallet is comfortable to admit.
    As it's all pretty self-taught on my part and has been more of a covid hobby than anything else. Does anyone have any great resources on the physics notation that could aid my learning process? It's my main weakness as I understand how and why to rearrange them, but yet the notation/symbols I am still pretty slow on.
    Thank you, Helen

    • @you2tooyou2too
      @you2tooyou2too 2 года назад

      Good adventures for you! It is to be expected, since most such symbols are randomly attributed, like H, C, & W. Also, many such symbols are context dependent, & ambiguous out of context.

    • @rahulgupta021
      @rahulgupta021 Год назад

      checkout courses on physics on NPTEL youtube channel.

    • @rationalthinker9612
      @rationalthinker9612 Год назад

      If you actually want to know what's truly going on, check out Bohmian mechanics and pilot wave theory

  • @bmr9779
    @bmr9779 9 месяцев назад +1

    Great lecture! Well done.

  • @garystewart3110
    @garystewart3110 8 месяцев назад

    what really fascinates me is how we've gotten so good at harnessing the power of the electron.

  • @scifactorial5802
    @scifactorial5802 7 лет назад +4

    This is the part I don't understand: how can we talk about electrons having both spin up in the x axis and spin down in the y axis? Wont measuring one of the two make the other random like what he talked about in the first lesson?

    • @aniketsaha7455
      @aniketsaha7455 5 лет назад +4

      That is why i guess the inequality does not hold

  • @balasujithpotineni8184
    @balasujithpotineni8184 4 года назад +4

    50:32 just blew my mind.

    • @seditt5146
      @seditt5146 3 года назад

      The fact he got a classroom to clap for double slit experiment blew my mind lol

  • @leobirtwhistle
    @leobirtwhistle 4 года назад +1

    This stuff is so interesting and well presented. Thanks for sharing.

  • @CAshishRaj
    @CAshishRaj 2 года назад +2

    27:28
    I think varying intensity does not change the stopping potential , but varying frequency does this. Correct me if I'm wrong.

    • @you2tooyou2too
      @you2tooyou2too 2 года назад

      Yes. Since the speed is constant, the intensity is a function of the number of particles, the particle 'momentum' is a function of the frequency (energy density of each particle).

  • @florianleis6793
    @florianleis6793 7 лет назад +3

    I liked the Band joke :)
    love from germany

  • @armida1976
    @armida1976 4 года назад +3

    Thank you for uploading this great lecture. I am not a physicist, I am a
    biologist but the lecturers are so well explained that even I can
    understand it and be intrigued by it. I am just a bit confused with the
    duality of light and electrons that are actually quanta of energy or
    single electrons respectively but when they interact with each other
    they behave as a wave (or at least exhibit some wave like properties).
    For some reason this duality is presented as counter intuitive but to my
    mind , and I may be completely wrong, but to my mind what we call a
    classical wave is a distortion of matter, molecules and zooming in atoms
    moving in a specific way through space passing energy from one to
    another. The wave is a movement of matter so it has all the properties
    mentioned is not localized and it exhibits interference. However a wave
    needs a material to travel through (again I may be wrong that is what I
    remember from my physics class) So if wave is a movement or distortion
    of matter it doesn't have an existence as a photon for example has or as
    a water molecule, but the molecules for example of the water forming
    the wave on a pond are distinct molecules of water so in a way every
    wave can have that duality because the matter through which it moves is
    made of distinct molecules and atoms but when then move together they
    create the wave. Pretty much as a human cell is distinct and occupies a
    single spot in the human body but the multi cellular organism still acts
    as one distinct organism. Although that would mean that if
    gravitational waves exist and they distort space time that would mean
    that space time itself is made of chunks that are distinct but when they
    interfere with each other they create the space time, much like atoms
    create molecules and molecules create elements etc. I may have it wrong.
    I would appreciate any suggestions.

    • @KK-fv5bs
      @KK-fv5bs 2 года назад +1

      I would like to correct you over there. Waves, do not need a medium to travel. MECHANICAL Waves, do. Mechanical Waves appear as distortion of matter. Water waves are mechanical waves, in essence, that they have literal atoms or molecules executing an SHM motion so that the wave exists. However this is not the case with Light. Light, is an electromagnetic wave. It doesn't require a medium of matter.
      Now one may wonder what is, in fact, an Electromagnetic Wave? Well, I won't be restating Maxwell's Equations, but I will just say that it's the oscillating Electric Field and Magnetic Field at each point. At any point, the Magnitude and Direction of Electric and Magnetic Fields are such that plotting them against time, gives a sinusoidal wave on the graph, just like SHM of particles. So these "oscillating" electric and magnetic fields are analogous to oscillating water molecules in a water wave.
      So, if there is a wave travelling, it doesn't mean there needs to exist some particle or a chunk. Electrons, and in fact all matter have a wave property to them, which are called Matter Waves. As the professor explains too, the electron is not literally a wave, or a particle. it's in 'superposition' of both, in essence that it exhibits different kinds of properties in different phenomena.
      When you look at an atom, electrons behave like standing waves inside the atom, with a certain wavelength. When you look at electrons in a CRT, it displays particle phenomena. Visualising it is, almost impossible. It is the way it is, that is nature (as far as we have discovered).

    • @michaelblankenau6598
      @michaelblankenau6598 9 месяцев назад

      Good explanation .

  • @liranshorek
    @liranshorek 5 лет назад

    this guy is absolutley amazing

  • @Puddymom
    @Puddymom 4 года назад

    Such an awesome professor. He makes me want to go back to Uni

  • @gerardomoscatelli8584
    @gerardomoscatelli8584 4 года назад +8

    I can't believe I wasted my time learning finance and not this !

  • @champalitieu
    @champalitieu Год назад +4

    everything in life seems related and meaningful, from law of attraction, twin flame, to everything, thanks OCW, looking forward to learn more

    • @jeremybonafini2229
      @jeremybonafini2229 Год назад

      What you have just named is pseudo science and proves you have not watched a second of this video 💀 gtfo of here

    • @NergusFlame
      @NergusFlame 9 месяцев назад

      Everything you listed has no basis in reality.

  • @asifnawaz9806
    @asifnawaz9806 3 месяца назад

    every good teacher is a great storyteller...he definitely is one ..the narrative he sets has movie like setup..where you have climax haha awsm !

  • @someswarprosadsukla660
    @someswarprosadsukla660 7 лет назад

    its just awsome to love unorthodox!!...thanks sir...

  • @cyberbum4835
    @cyberbum4835 7 лет назад +54

    BUT THE REAL SAD THING IS THAT THERE ARE ONLY 69351 VIEWS OF THIS VIDEO!!!!!

    • @skipsassy1
      @skipsassy1 7 лет назад +1

      sex and gambling are the norm Sir. How do you think the internet is paid for? Not Jewish and Asians professors - though the former invented it at Stanford Cisco Systems founded in 1988.

    • @benhongh
      @benhongh 6 лет назад +6

      We gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

    • @tj_h3005
      @tj_h3005 4 года назад

      Now it's up to 375k!

    • @flumpyhumpy
      @flumpyhumpy 4 года назад +1

      Sadder is that 80 people disliked it.

    • @timbeaton5045
      @timbeaton5045 4 года назад

      420,649 views• as of 10 May 2016. maybe these views are cumulatively going to give an interference pattern, even though they are all at different times?

  • @ankushjain35
    @ankushjain35 3 года назад +3

    Greate lecture. Thanks a lot!
    I have a question on Bell's inequality. Could someone please explain to me how could anyone get the number of electrons which are hard and black (as shown during 1:17:28 ) or the number of electrons which are hard and not black, etc? In the first lecture, it was shown that there is no such thing as an electron which is hard and black simultaneously. How was this experiment done to calculate the N(H,~B), N(B,~W), and N(H,~W)?

    • @peersvensson9253
      @peersvensson9253 2 года назад +3

      He was playing a bit fast and loose at the end. The inequality actually is a statement about two electrons, so N(H,~B) should be interpreted as one electron is hard and the other one is not black. There is another subtlety though, which is that hardness, color and whimsyness would not actually lead to a violation of the inequality (which is why he started writing angles at the end). You have to be a bit more clever in how you pick which properties of the electron you want to work with.

  • @holthuizenoemoet591
    @holthuizenoemoet591 2 года назад

    fantastic lecture, at around 50:000 when he is discussing if an electron is a wave or not. The electron itself might be a localized "packet or object" but it travels with a oscillation right, i mean if it fly in a "straight line, it actually has some super oscilations.

  • @raymondreddington6317
    @raymondreddington6317 5 лет назад

    Thank You MIT, You are great people

  • @KyleDB150
    @KyleDB150 7 лет назад +3

    what year in ug physics is this aimed toward?

    • @asa_1896
      @asa_1896 7 лет назад +1

      Normally 4th but 3rd sometimes depending on the school or possible concentration

    • @manassharma8781
      @manassharma8781 7 лет назад +2

      Kyle Brown thats actually funny bcz in my country its taught in final year of high school (class 12)

    • @KyleDB150
      @KyleDB150 7 лет назад

      the photoelectric effect and basics of quantisation of light were in mine, are you sure your school went into the full quantum mechanics? what country was that in?

    • @manassharma8781
      @manassharma8781 7 лет назад

      Kyle Brown actually i just this year finished high school and will be joining college. btw i am from India, what about you

    • @KyleDB150
      @KyleDB150 7 лет назад +1

      new zealand, my school cared more about sport than anything but I did stuff a year ahead and did a first uni physics paper, but that went through all the classical physics topics and didnt go past the two slit experiment in quantum mechanics. I'm 4th year mechanical engineering atm which obviously doesnt cover qm or relativity

  • @cyberbum4835
    @cyberbum4835 7 лет назад +5

    The 6 people who didn't like this video have either miss-clicked or they are the kind of idiots which are the reason we have not yet explored and exploited the rest of the galaxy and inhabitable planets.

    • @timewalker6654
      @timewalker6654 5 лет назад +2

      No, there could be other possible reasons like, they want something more,some confusion in their mind which the professor didn't try to touch.

  • @liamdurkin7327
    @liamdurkin7327 4 месяца назад

    This is the best teacher I’ve ever seen

  • @Babies977
    @Babies977 8 месяцев назад

    I am grateful for this wonderful nature of the universities and I hope to gain admission soon