Quantum Worlds

Quantum Mechanics and its Interpretation

Class notes by Steve Bryson

• Session 1: Introduction to Quantum Waves
• Session 2: Observing the Quantum Wave and Atomic Spectra
• Session 3: Wave Interference and Introduction to Measurement
• Session 4: Quantum Paradoxes: Collapsing Cats and Non-locality
• Session 5: The Hidden Variables Interpretation and Feynman Path Integrals

• Recommended Book List

Nice Web Sites:

BlueGiant.phys.ksu.edu/dvi/vqm/vqm.html is a nice web site providing a survey of basic quantum mechanics

newton.phy.bme.hu/education/schrd/index.html is an only partially complete web site, but it includes some nice animations of a particle wave encountering a potential barrier.

www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/qm/qm.html gives a nice set of graphics showing various concepts in quantum mechanics particularly as applied to chemistry.

www.physics.mcgill.ca:8081/physics-services/physics_education.html gives a large list of physics education resources on the web, though some of the links no longer work.

www.well.com/user/sarfatti/index.html gives Jack Sarfatti's views of physics. Some of this is quite good and he gives a good introduction to the EPR paradox and so on, but these gems are mixed in with other items that are frankly off the deep end.

www.aip.org/aip/wwwinfo.html is the web site of the American Institute of Physics, and points to many other physics-oriented web sites around the world.

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