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Quantum Physics For Beginners PDF
Quantum Physics For Beginners PDF
In the next post we will give you a review of this intriguing and very
complex world that has taken us to the most hidden and wonderful
places of a universe that we did not know until no less than 100 years
ago in a kind of “quantum physics for dummies”.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
If you want to teach quantum theory to the little ones, don't miss
the opportunity to show them this video where they explain in a
fun way the double slit experiment, a quantum physics experiment
explained for children and that they will also like to see.
In the next lines of this post I will tell you a little more about this
topic. Before I would like you to see the video.
https://youtu.be/hwa9jl8R1bU
One of these objects was the electric light bulb. Scientists were
unable to explain why when they heated the filament of a light
bulb , it radiated a reddish-yellowish light.
All this seemed fine, but when adding the emissions from all
frequency ranges, the values tend to infinity.
In conclusion, ultraviolet rays were waves with infinite energy
and this was an impossible fact since it was known that the earth was
bombarded by these rays at every moment.
E = hf
This search for the explanation of shiny bodies led Max Planck to
find a truth much greater than what he
Light is emitted and absorbed in discrete packets of energy and this is the same for a simple
light bulb as for the sun.
Not only did he prove that each metal has a different extraction work
but that Planck's constant has a universal value for each material .
Lois de Broglie discovered that not only particles can behave like
waves but waves can also behave like particles , thereby making a
great contribution to quantum physics.
Niels Bohr was convinced that electrons revolved around the nucleus
of the atom and they did so in orbits just as the planets do so around
the Sun.
Not all orbits were allowed, only orbits of certain sizes, only those
and there were no spaces in between. However, this was not entirely
true, something we will see on another occasion.