Hands On Training

Quantum Mechanics for Everyone

Georgetown University

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edX

Course Features

Duration

6 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Beginner

Effort

10 hours per week

Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

Quantum Mechanics for Everyone is a six-week long MOOC that teaches the basic ideas of quantum mechanics with a method that requires no complicated math beyond taking square roots (and you can use a calculator for that). Quantum theory is taught without “dumbing down” any of the material, giving you the same version experts use in current research. We will cover the quantum mystery of the two-slit experiment and advanced topics that include how to see something without shining light on it (quantum seeing in the dark) and bunching effects of photons (Hong-Ou-Mandel effect).

To get a flavor for the course and see if it is right for you, watch "Let's get small", which shows you how poorly you were taught what an atom looks like, and "The fallacy of physics phobia."

Course Overview

Live Class

Human Interaction

Personlized Teaching

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

High school algebra and a desire to learn about bizarre but real phenomena

What You Will Learn

Apply quantum ideas to understand partial reflection of light, interaction-free measurements, and particle indistinguishability

Discover what spin is and how it is manipulated by magnets

Explain what the quantum mystery is

Learn the basics of probability theory

Understand what a quantum particle is in the world of the ultrasmall

Course Content

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Module 1: Introduction to the Quantum World

Module 2: Advanced Quantum Mechanics with Spins

Module 3: The Quantum Mechanics of Light

Module 4: Advanced Quantum Ideas with Light

Course Instructors

James Freericks

Professor at Georgetown University

James Freericks, Professor of Physics, was trained as an undergraduate at Princeton University (A.B. 1985) and as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley (MA 1987, Ph.D. 1991). H...