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This course aims to introduce students to the counterintuative phenomena in quantum mechanics and frontier quantum technology with comprehensive examples instead of complicated mathematics. Students will learn the concepts of probability wave, quantum tunneling effect, uncertainty principle, quantum entanglement, quantum non-cloning theorem and so on. Topics such as multi-world interpretation, observer effect, quantum satellite, quantum biology will be discussed. Students are expected to understand the impacts of quantum mechanics on daily life and the exploration of life sciecne and identify psudoscientific claim using a label “quantum”.
This book intends to build an intuitive understanding of the principles behind quantum mechanics through hands-on projects and replication of the original experiments that have shaped our view of the quantum world. Basic understanding of algebra, trigonometry and calculus is required. There are eight chapters in this book, presenting experiments such as the classical understanding of light’s nature in the nineteenth century, those that produced data against the theoretical explanations of classical physics, atomic physics and radioactivity, quantization, light and material objects, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, Dr. Schrödinger and his cat, the existence of entanglement. This book also provides insight into historical and conceptual background of each subject.
