Lecture 2: Experimental Facts of Life

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.
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  • @nicostadi
    @nicostadi4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @suvarnadhiraj

    @suvarnadhiraj

    4 жыл бұрын

    absolutely :)

  • @TheKingBeyondEverything

    @TheKingBeyondEverything

    2 жыл бұрын

    Correct 😂

  • @jonidwyer7174

    @jonidwyer7174

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mic drop

  • @the3rdking747

    @the3rdking747

    2 жыл бұрын

    GHAYYY

  • @davidloter5391

    @davidloter5391

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'd like this comment but it's already at 420.

  • @TheKingBeyondEverything
    @TheKingBeyondEverything2 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheKingBeyondEverything

    @TheKingBeyondEverything

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beagle989 well, yeah😅.

  • @kidkique

    @kidkique

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheKingBeyondEverything

    @TheKingBeyondEverything

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andreaszweili8593

    @andreaszweili8593

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JosephTomasone
    @JosephTomasone3 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @debadiptobiswas5611
    @debadiptobiswas56115 жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    Why is the history and drama important?

  • @austinbrown7183

    @austinbrown7183

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    8 ай бұрын

    @@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

    4 ай бұрын

    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

    21 сағат бұрын

    @@maxhagenauer24it’s interesting

  • @DaytakTV
    @DaytakTV8 жыл бұрын

    Professor Adams is a phenomenal lecturer!

  • @CaptainCalculus

    @CaptainCalculus

    7 жыл бұрын

    hear hear!! a brilliant lecturer

  • @nimagaousmane2702

    @nimagaousmane2702

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @katekane6697

    @katekane6697

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes. He is smart.

  • @Peddayana

    @Peddayana

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yet not comparable to Sir Walter Lewin

  • @samuelallan7452

    @samuelallan7452

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mitocw
    @mitocw8 жыл бұрын

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

  • @untwerf

    @untwerf

    8 жыл бұрын

    Nice! 1080p HYPE!!!

  • @untwerf

    @untwerf

    8 жыл бұрын

    Nice! 1080p HYPE!!!

  • @pob-4810

    @pob-4810

    8 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Whoo yah!

  • @apburner1

    @apburner1

    7 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @antikoerper256
    @antikoerper2563 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aaronkonstantine2794

    @aaronkonstantine2794

    2 жыл бұрын

    💯

  • @sadakoprochichi
    @sadakoprochichi7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @firstatheist

    @firstatheist

    7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Cipher71

    @Cipher71

    7 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    you just took it.

  • @meowrkerd4rker_

    @meowrkerd4rker_

    6 жыл бұрын

    @clay miller: what book is it?

  • @e4rohan
    @e4rohan7 жыл бұрын

    That is one really passionate human being

  • @d.v.faller9251
    @d.v.faller92512 жыл бұрын

    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

    3 ай бұрын

    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. 😊

  • @tayday424
    @tayday4242 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mabdinur85
    @mabdinur855 жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @michaeldebellis4202
    @michaeldebellis4202 Жыл бұрын

    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 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @XXXoXXoXXXX
    @XXXoXXoXXXX7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for putting these out there MIT!

  • @KingOfTheDerp
    @KingOfTheDerp10 ай бұрын

    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

    3 ай бұрын

    So you watch to be entertained or to learn??

  • @KingOfTheDerp

    @KingOfTheDerp

    3 ай бұрын

    Both :D@@arizonacolour8793

  • @jonchicoine
    @jonchicoine2 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @Constyish
    @Constyish Жыл бұрын

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

  • @oliverandm
    @oliverandm5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sirmongoose
    @sirmongoose10 ай бұрын

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

  • @UnchainedEruption

    @UnchainedEruption

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @samuelverhoeve1564

    @samuelverhoeve1564

    4 ай бұрын

    Makes sense considering Gordon Freeman canonically graduated from MIT

  • @alexolah805
    @alexolah80510 ай бұрын

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

  • @Re-bl5sr
    @Re-bl5sr3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @berkeleycodingacademy7015
    @berkeleycodingacademy7015 Жыл бұрын

    Love the way Professor Adams ends lectures with a flourish!

  • @ramko685
    @ramko6857 жыл бұрын

    professor Adam is dope at explaining and being enthusiastic

  • @stuartofblyth
    @stuartofblyth6 жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @portlyoldman
    @portlyoldman3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dixithanoop
    @dixithanoop5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @frqgrenade
    @frqgrenade6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ElectromecanicaIndustrial

    @ElectromecanicaIndustrial

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @rubyredfort2843

    @rubyredfort2843

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @shrodikan
    @shrodikan2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hasanxnv
    @hasanxnv7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dadinggo
    @dadinggo4 жыл бұрын

    I love this guys enthusiasm for the subject.

  • @hussainrazik1251
    @hussainrazik12515 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sanatanmeaning
    @sanatanmeaning4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zuesbenz

    @zuesbenz

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @noahhysi8622
    @noahhysi86223 жыл бұрын

    Claps at the end of a lecture, amazing

  • @EnchantedGardenGnome
    @EnchantedGardenGnome8 ай бұрын

    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!!!

  • @pedrojuan341
    @pedrojuan34111 ай бұрын

    Great explanation! Thank you Mr. Adams!

  • @erwinmulders
    @erwinmulders5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @tehwubbles
    @tehwubbles3 жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    i didn't get it why is it funny?

  • @fiftysevensix
    @fiftysevensix3 ай бұрын

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

  • @r7ndom
    @r7ndom2 жыл бұрын

    Adams is such a great professor. So good.

  • @RajPatel-di2qw
    @RajPatel-di2qw7 жыл бұрын

    thank you MIT

  • @reizkianyesaya8727
    @reizkianyesaya87274 жыл бұрын

    That closing statement literally gives me a goosebumps

  • @manueljenkin95
    @manueljenkin953 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this fantastic lecture!

  • @thermonuclearwarhead
    @thermonuclearwarhead5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely amazing!

  • @binxuwang4960
    @binxuwang49603 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @BAESIR
    @BAESIR7 жыл бұрын

    Bell's Inequality!!! That was awesome

  • @MC-br1gk

    @MC-br1gk

    7 жыл бұрын

    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

    6 жыл бұрын

    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

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @adi29raj
    @adi29raj11 ай бұрын

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

  • @Tesseract9630
    @Tesseract96307 жыл бұрын

    Professor Adams is an awesome teacher.

  • @mikefullermikefuller4711
    @mikefullermikefuller47116 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kdmdlo

    @kdmdlo

    5 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @earendilthebright5402

    @earendilthebright5402

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seems a bit forced

  • @Yetipfote

    @Yetipfote

    5 жыл бұрын

    badummtss

  • @Tim-Kaa
    @Tim-Kaa3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @alkistsironis4678
    @alkistsironis46782 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @larrylyons9362
    @larrylyons93627 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the lecture. Much appreciated.

  • @bhabeshgoswami3897
    @bhabeshgoswami38977 жыл бұрын

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

  • @angry4rtichoke646
    @angry4rtichoke6464 жыл бұрын

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

  • @garystewart3110
    @garystewart31107 ай бұрын

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

  • @TheKillerant1976
    @TheKillerant19767 жыл бұрын

    Great job, it is phenomenal!

  • @vinaykushwaha5223
    @vinaykushwaha52237 жыл бұрын

    Thanks MIT for this precious study material.

  • @battlewing221

    @battlewing221

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is not study material lol

  • @masonroberts3461

    @masonroberts3461

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @harrysharma1
    @harrysharma15 жыл бұрын

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

  • @peytonsidders1471
    @peytonsidders14717 жыл бұрын

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

  • @raybroomall8383
    @raybroomall83836 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrFryfish
    @MrFryfish8 жыл бұрын

    The final statement was stately as a conclusion! WOW!

  • @ArnabBose
    @ArnabBose6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wesrobertson8753
    @wesrobertson87532 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @elnurhajiyev2477
    @elnurhajiyev24774 жыл бұрын

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

  • @KasenB100
    @KasenB1007 жыл бұрын

    49:38 music: Комбат - я солдат

  • @klavesin

    @klavesin

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kassen Boyaubai Yup, by 5Nizza

  • @adiletbeishenov5731

    @adiletbeishenov5731

    6 жыл бұрын

    пятница я солдат if being more accurate

  • @Mlvcollege6682

    @Mlvcollege6682

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @champalitieu
    @champalitieu Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jeremybonafini2229

    @jeremybonafini2229

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @NergusFlame

    @NergusFlame

    8 ай бұрын

    Everything you listed has no basis in reality.

  • @daiduongdaviddinh140
    @daiduongdaviddinh1406 жыл бұрын

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

  • @rock00dom
    @rock00dom3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @balasujithpotineni8184
    @balasujithpotineni81844 жыл бұрын

    50:32 just blew my mind.

  • @seditt5146

    @seditt5146

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @manuelvazquezacosta9845
    @manuelvazquezacosta98456 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @KenMac-ui2vb
    @KenMac-ui2vb6 жыл бұрын

    What a great find! This professor is awesome!

  • @tikkar466
    @tikkar4662 жыл бұрын

    Amazing lecturer with total involvement.

  • @armida1976
    @armida19764 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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

    8 ай бұрын

    Good explanation .

  • @gerardomoscatelli8584
    @gerardomoscatelli85844 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ankitanain3555
    @ankitanain35554 жыл бұрын

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

  • @younited8959
    @younited89593 жыл бұрын

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

  • @augustinasskirsgilas2603
    @augustinasskirsgilas26037 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kevinw.6342

    @kevinw.6342

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @florianleis6793
    @florianleis67937 жыл бұрын

    I liked the Band joke :) love from germany

  • @mathefeitosa
    @mathefeitosa5 жыл бұрын

    This is the best teacher I ever watched!

  • @liranshorek
    @liranshorek5 жыл бұрын

    this guy is absolutley amazing

  • @helenslattery4356
    @helenslattery43562 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

    checkout courses on physics on NPTEL youtube channel.

  • @rationalthinker9612

    @rationalthinker9612

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @stuartdearaujo6245
    @stuartdearaujo62454 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @rajshreegupta4416

    @rajshreegupta4416

    4 жыл бұрын

    I have the same question

  • @devangsrivastava6736
    @devangsrivastava67364 жыл бұрын

    I'm loving it!

  • @leobirtwhistle
    @leobirtwhistle4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @everythingisrealrivers6582
    @everythingisrealrivers65823 жыл бұрын

    second lecture: "46 angstroms times the function squared over minus 4..... " First lecture: Electron, soft. Electron hard.

  • @BlastinRope

    @BlastinRope

    3 жыл бұрын

    (46 * x)**2/-4

  • @cyberbum4835
    @cyberbum48357 жыл бұрын

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

  • @skipsassy1

    @skipsassy1

    6 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tj_h3005

    @tj_h3005

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now it's up to 375k!

  • @flumpyhumpy

    @flumpyhumpy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sadder is that 80 people disliked it.

  • @timbeaton5045

    @timbeaton5045

    3 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @raymondreddington6317
    @raymondreddington63175 жыл бұрын

    Thank You MIT, You are great people

  • @satishkumar-fd5jm
    @satishkumar-fd5jm4 жыл бұрын

    You know you are amazing when you can teach quantum physics to a pharmacy graduate like me. Great lecture.

  • @coolman7663

    @coolman7663

    4 жыл бұрын

    satish kumar bro I’m in grade 10 and he can teach to me. He really is amazing

  • @scifactorial5802
    @scifactorial58027 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    That is why i guess the inequality does not hold

  • @ianzen
    @ianzen7 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @qiangzhang8033

    @qiangzhang8033

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @medhasingh4428

    @medhasingh4428

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @harshulgupta4604

    @harshulgupta4604

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same problem 😂

  • @bmr9779
    @bmr97798 ай бұрын

    Great lecture! Well done.

  • @asifnawaz9806
    @asifnawaz98062 ай бұрын

    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 !

  • @JohnVKaravitis
    @JohnVKaravitis5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @yourlordandsaviouryeesusbe2998

    @yourlordandsaviouryeesusbe2998

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ankushjain35
    @ankushjain353 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @someswarprosadsukla660
    @someswarprosadsukla6607 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kierenmacmillan4854
    @kierenmacmillan48542 ай бұрын

    Phenomenal lecturer giving a fantastic lecture.

  • @kingcobra2845
    @kingcobra28453 жыл бұрын

    Damnnnn this would be so hard to learn my mind is blown in like 10 minutes of watching this completely lost 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @dadestor

    @dadestor

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know right, makes me feel dumb not understanding any of that stuff...

  • @cyberbum4835
    @cyberbum48357 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @seditt5146
    @seditt51463 жыл бұрын

    You're a good teacher dude don't forget that. You got a class to clap and cheer for the fucking double slit experiment. Never underestimate the full impact of that.

  • @MonkeyManMechanicals
    @MonkeyManMechanicals2 жыл бұрын

    wish I had people like this growing up. Most called me crazy. There's always something new determined upon the point of view.