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The Mechanical Universe 50
Particles and Waves |
Evidence that light can sometimes act like a particle leads to quantum mechanics, the new physics.
Ch Frame Code Title
1 A Opening Sequence
2 02400 G Bold Ideas Leading To Structure Of The Atom
3 03360 E Why A Bulb's Brightness Depends On Voltage
4 04005 V Glowing Bodies And Filaments
5 05022 H Portrait Of Planck
6 05907 H Maxwell At His Desk
7 06552 V A Coal Furnace
8 07330 V A Light Bulb
9 08172 H Portrait Of Planck
10 08901 A Instantaneous Speed
11 09661 H Planck's Constant
12 10281 V A Home At Night
13* 10826 E The Photoelectric Effect
14 12251 H Portrait Of Einstein
15 12730 A Electrons In A Metal; The Work Function
16 14125 H Millikan's Lab
17 14945 E The Photoelectric Effect
18 15660 H Portrait Of Young
19 16300 H Portrait Of De Broglie
20 17129 A Particle And Wave Theories
21 19289 H Portrait Of De Broglie
22 20234 A Bohr's Atomic Model
23 22014 H Portrait Of De Broglie
24 22929 H Portrait Of Schroedinger
25 23399 A Wave Particle Duality
26 25839 H Schroedinger's Book On Wave Mechanics
27 26394 E Wave Interference With Light
28* 26754 A Wave Interference (2slits-"ripple tank" and photon)
29 28729 H Portrait Of Born
30 29304 H Portrait Of Heisenberg
31 30239 A Waves' Momentum, Position And Uncertainty
32 32034 H Portrait Of Heisenberg
33 32464 V Light Bulb
34 33201 A Wave-Particle Duality
35 34584 H Portrait Of Heisenberg
36 35379 H Portrait Of Planck
37 35972 H Portrait Of Einstein
38 36389 V CalTech Campus
39 37269 G Particles And Waves; Crossed Polaroids
49300 credits
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Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007