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Quantum Mechanics Basics

The physics of the very small: quanta and photons, wave–particle duality and the double slit, the wavefunction and probability, superposition and measurement, uncertainty, entanglement, and the technologies quantum physics made possible.

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Prereqs: Light & waves; Atoms. Next: Atoms & nuclei; Semiconductors. Sources: Feynman, *QED* and *Lectures on Physics* Vol. III; Griffiths, *Introduction to Quantum Mechanics*; Nobel Prize 2022 materials on entanglement.
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