Quantum Mechanics. Episode 4, Particles of Light, Waves of Matter.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 6748125 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2009Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- computer
- online resource
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Film
In Process Record.
Benjamin Schumacher
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2009.
Light propagates through space as a wave, but it exchanges its energy in the form of particles. You learn how Louis de Broglie showed that this weird wave-particle duality also applies to matter, and how Max Born inferred that this relationship makes quantum mechanics inherently probabilistic.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English