Lecture 2: Experimental Facts of Life
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- MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2013
View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/8-04S13
Instructor: Allan Adams
In this lecture, Prof. Adams gives a panoramic view on various experimental evidence that indicates the inadequacy of pre-quantum physics. He concludes the lecture with a short discussion on Bell's inequality.
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It's so good we're living in this age where information is so easily accessible and MIT like Universities are enough generous to provide such valuable lessons for free .
we'd be a lot further along as a society if the internet was invented a thousand years ago
@@beagle989 well, yeah😅.
Society doesnt value the knowledge, it only values the degree - which certainly is not availble for free
@@kidkique Well, degree is able to give you instant/short-term benefits but knowledge is eternally beneficial.
Absolutely, instead of watching a stupid television show, I can relax to a physics lesson from the other side of the world.
He should have a hand held mic so he can drop it at the end of all lectures...
absolutely :)
Correct 😂
Mic drop
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As someone whose school days are long behind him but who has a late passing interest in quantum mechanics, I'm not only grateful for this being online but so badly wish that I had attended MIT and had this gentleman as my professor. He is effortlessly going beyond the basics yet not losing me in the math - which heretofore has been a significant challenge in my self-study journey.
Don’t place limits and caps on what you can do or achieve… not too late to go enroll in this mans class, awkward, maybe but impossible, no…
What I like about his teaching is that he not only teaches physics but also the history and the drama that revolves around it.
Why is the history and drama important?
These are the facts, you're going to eat it and you're going to like it!
I like a little bit of history, drama, and humor to lighten the load a bit. If I wanted a monotone boring guy I'd just read a textbook...
@@maxhagenauer24 its exceedingly difficult to focus on foreign, theoretical material for an hour and a half straight. Tossing in arbitrary historical facts lightens the mood and refocuses the mind.
fr , bros kinda funny as well , i do computer science and maths , completely wrong field but his teaching makes thiis topic alot more interesting
@@maxhagenauer24it’s interesting
Thank God that the Internet exist and the fact that such knowledge is freely accessible through it.
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Professor Adams is a phenomenal lecturer!
hear hear!! a brilliant lecturer
What is he drinking? You guys un the u.s... such a mystery about this drink
Yes. He is smart.
Yet not comparable to Sir Walter Lewin
sundar ram Levin was amazing. And I believe he got totally framed
Fair Use credit updated for the music, video quality upgraded to 1080p.
Nice! 1080p HYPE!!!
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I just want to really say thank you for the open lectures. I'm just really bored and learning about this is very fun
Whoo yah!
What was the resolution of the original recording? If you are claiming that you can increase resolution I am not sending my kid to MIT.
Wonderful lectures by Prof. Adams. Same topics as when I took 8.04, but delivered with such enthusiasm and with memorable analogies. I admire the way in which he defers using the actual names of certain quantum properties, calling them instead hardness, color, smooth and chunky. This gives the students a way to grasp the concepts, without even mentioning confusing terms such as quanta and spin.
Greatly enjoyed his quick allusion to the original Star Trek and red shirts in Lecture 1.
We all appreciate MIT's generosity and sense of public service in providing these lectures to the world. Years ago some of us paid tuition for them. Now everyone can appreciate the excellent teaching.
Is there someone that I can talk to. . This is bullshit... Really HEY, LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. I CAN DO A BETTER JOB . WILL YOU HELP ME HELP YOU. THIS GUY. YOU BETTER HAVE THAT ON MY DESK BY 8AM. NO KIDDING. IM JUST WONDERING IF THIS DIPSHIT COULD FIGURE OUT A 9X9 SQ BY 123 IN LESS THEN 7 MINUTES. YOU ARE BRING FKT.. JUST BE GLAD THAT IM NOT THERE. WE COULD LEARN SOME REAL PHYSICS. 😊
This teacher is incredible! The enthusiasm is so contagious. I wish I could take this class :(
you can; all the HW, assignments, notes, and lectures are online
DUDE! THANK YOU! I had wondered at one point yesterday if they had the HW's, etc accessible online, but hadn't remembered to check on that. Thank you for reminding me. I'm studying physics at Georgia Tech, and they are TERRIBLE at teaching Quantum 1 and 2 here. I love professor Adams' lectures. He's so much better at both explaining everything *and* making it seem interesting. Plus, his recommendation for that book that approaches QM from a philosophical standpoint is exactly what I've been looking for. I wish we had professors like him here.
Which website particularly? I’m interested in quantum mechanics, I want to practice more so that I can understand those concepts more deeply.
Thank you!
you just took it.
@clay miller: what book is it?
That is one really passionate human being
quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, classical mechanics: these lectures are intimidating if you go in expecting to understand the first time you watch. Its much more enjoyable to watch them several times, taking in more meaning with each viewing. Just as interesting as the best shows on netflix. Has more staying power than most good novels.
I like how he dropped such an insight with respect to Bell's inequality not working in Quantum Mechanics and just say's "see you next Tuesday". That's like dropping the mic and walking off the set in a very funny stand up comedy routine ... you know you have to watch the next episode to be satisfied after that bombshell.
Wonder what his lectures are gonna be like after they proved bell right last year.
This guy reminds me of Gilbert Strang, also from MIT, who has online recording of his lectures on Linear Algebra, another topic (like quantum mechanics) I never thought I would get but after the first lectures, Strang made so much sense compared to the other books and materials I tried to understand that I really understood it and to my surprise I stuck with the lectures to the end including doing homework problems from one of Strang’s books. We’ll see how long I make it in this one, this is harder than Linear Algebra, but after the intro lectures I already feel like I understand some of these concepts in a way that many pop science books and videos never achieved.
Thank you for putting these out there MIT!
What Rutherford *actually* said (4:40) was "It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you". As a Kiwi living and working in England he would have had little interest in 10-pin bowling.
He also said "All science is either physics or stamp collecting", with which I heartily concur. Two other favourites: "An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid", and "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment".
I don’t remember my professors having anywhere near this level of enthusiasm… love this guy. (Once the math kicks in, in the next video, I’m in over my head)
I have the same reaction to the math. My Mother said it was because she was seriously frightened by a mechanical adding machine when she was pregnant with me, but I think THAT is some kind of "Quantum Leap".
I'm an undergrad in my final year of my Bachelor of Science, i've almost completed my taste of the Quantum Mechanics i'm gonna get but i love how this guy teaches and will be here until the end!
Allan Adams encapsulates what a good teacher is! The enthusiasm, the ease of communication, the humor, and that fucking outfit! Love him!
This dude is a awesome lecturer, I failed math twice in highschool but the way he explains things makes it so easy to grasp
He's a super dope lecturer who goes at a great pace, explains nuisances very well, and is very entertaining to watch. Thanks for uploading these!
So you watch to be entertained or to learn??
Both :D@@arizonacolour8793
nuances instead of nuisances?
I've never taken a QP class in my life but Im fascinated by this. Whats even more fascinating is that I can actually understand most of it. 👏 to this chaps enthusiasm - goes a lomg way. Saved some for larer viewing.
Exhausted but exhilarated by the entire lecture series so far. Wonderful series, fantastic lecturer wishing I was eighteen and could take the course!!
Professor Gordon Freeman teaches me Quantum Physics. I always knew I needed this. Thank you MIT.
Lol He does look like Gordon Freeman. I can't unsee that now!
Makes sense considering Gordon Freeman canonically graduated from MIT
Incredible stuff! Thanks MIT for putting it online, thanks prof Adams for these great, passionate and so well put lectures!!
38:54 the book is "Einstein in Berlin" by Thomas Levenson
Thanks
Thanks
Love the way Professor Adams ends lectures with a flourish!
professor Adam is dope at explaining and being enthusiastic
good luck you young guys, I wish I didn't make that many wrong choices when I was young, cause I always loved learning, I just didn't like schools, now I am older, I even was a teacher for a while before I got ill, that was the best time of my life, good to see you have such great teachers like this man, you are really lucky with this guy, he has passion in teaching, not every teacher has that ability, just drag yourself through cause it will pay of in the end, way to go folks and thank you for this video and all the others
This is one hell of a lecture! Particularly, the Bell Inequality part. I still can't believe the real world is so different.
Sir Allen Adams can make really good students because of his wonderful *PERSONALITY* and *TEACHING*
THANKS MIT OCW
yes i know, indian professors are assholes in general and many do not know the material clearly enough in their head to teach properly.
He's AWESOME!!!! Oh my God, I am so thankful for this existing. This is the best explanation of this subject I've found yet in a way that's easy to understand and SUPER engaging. Yay!!!
I have always read about Bell’s Inequality.... this is the first time I understood it as it stands... thank you MIT and prof...
Claps at the end of a lecture, amazing
Thank you MIT and Professor Adams! This series has enriched my life and helped me understand phenomena I hadn't before.
I love this guys enthusiasm for the subject.
When the students laugh at 14:30, it really shows that those are people that truly want to be there. I'm just trying to imagine telling the same story in the same way to lowerclassmen undergrads at my university and the crickets I'd get
i didn't get it why is it funny?
That closing statement literally gives me a goosebumps
Bell's Inequality!!! That was awesome
I wonder if the stuff in quantum mechanics, the sort of building blocks of "everything", is sort of like the stem cells in the biological world, or vice versa?
Marc Castro Well, stem cells are not building blocks in the same sense. They are cells that did not yet become a specific type of cells, but your body is not made of stem cells. It is made of differenciated (non stem) cells, with *maybe* a tiny reserve of stem.
Matter is made of quantum stuff. All of it.
@refresh It's a pretty inaccurate analogy, but if it helps I guess...
Amazing lecturer with total involvement.
Adams is such a great professor. So good.
thank you MIT
Amazing. Prof Allan makes it so much interesting. Thanks to both MIT and the professor
How is this not a tv series ...I am getting hooked at the end of every episode
Thank you very much. I truly appreciate the content and of course, the talented staff. Bravo.
Maybe he is a theorist but he has such a great great understanding of classical experiments and can expose the core core idea of it and discard the technical details as gossip news is so inspiring~
His lecture may be on par with Feynmann s
Great Professor Adams as always you have kept my mouth wide open.............
He is so passionate and skillfull professor .....really I love these lectures
This man has some powerful energy while teaching i watched some lectures by accident and even if its not my type of videos he kept me listening and i understood some of them pretty easily... Good job!! Teach our teachers how to teach us man ... PLEASE
A Higgs-boson particle goes into a church.
The vicar says "We don't want your sort in here!"
The Higgs-boson particle says
"But you can't have mass without me!"
its the interaction with the higgs field that gives particles mass so
sorry to ruin your joke:(
And as a follow-up, Mass is said by a Catholic Priest ... not Vicars (Vicars is more of an Anglican term). But that, in itself doesn't negatively impact the joke.
Dangerously Dubious Double Davidson higgs boson is the outcome of the interaction with the Higgs field. Like any other fundamental particle
Seems a bit forced
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Fantastic course. I'm in accounting and I watched first 1 lectures in one go. Will be looking forward to download lectures, materials and actually watching through the whole course.
Professor Adams is an awesome teacher.
I love this lecture so much. Thank you Prof. Adams for inspiring us Quantum Mechanics
The way sir connected the first lecture to this is outstanding, The moment 55:01 I realised this
I wish I could go to those office hours, this is awesome!
Great explanation! Thank you Mr. Adams!
that was one hell of a lecture and he nailed it at the end!
Thanks MIT for this precious study material.
This is not study material lol
@@battlewing221 it is it’s information, you can study information end of.
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Kassen Boyaubai Yup, by 5Nizza
пятница я солдат if being more accurate
thanks
That see you on Tuesday after he finishes the lecture is just so badass!
Some of the best lectures I've seen. Definitely earns his salary.
The final statement was stately as a conclusion!
WOW!
1:18:15 - didn't we establish in lecture 1 though that we assign two properties simultaneously to an electron.
what really fascinates me is how we've gotten so good at harnessing the power of the electron.
Phenomenal lecturer giving a fantastic lecture.
50:32 just blew my mind.
The fact he got a classroom to clap for double slit experiment blew my mind lol
I can't believe I wasted my time learning finance and not this !
Great job, it is phenomenal!
Thank you very much for this fantastic lecture!
I have a question regarding the last point about the Bell's Inequality. In the formula, the term N(H, not B) was actually established as meaningless in the first lesson: You can't say anything about the color of 'hard' electrons. So, something happened that we now can do an experiment with hard and not black (white) electrons.
Thank you for uploading this great lecture. I am not a physicist, I am a
biologist but the lecturers are so well explained that even I can
understand it and be intrigued by it. I am just a bit confused with the
duality of light and electrons that are actually quanta of energy or
single electrons respectively but when they interact with each other
they behave as a wave (or at least exhibit some wave like properties).
For some reason this duality is presented as counter intuitive but to my
mind , and I may be completely wrong, but to my mind what we call a
classical wave is a distortion of matter, molecules and zooming in atoms
moving in a specific way through space passing energy from one to
another. The wave is a movement of matter so it has all the properties
mentioned is not localized and it exhibits interference. However a wave
needs a material to travel through (again I may be wrong that is what I
remember from my physics class) So if wave is a movement or distortion
of matter it doesn't have an existence as a photon for example has or as
a water molecule, but the molecules for example of the water forming
the wave on a pond are distinct molecules of water so in a way every
wave can have that duality because the matter through which it moves is
made of distinct molecules and atoms but when then move together they
create the wave. Pretty much as a human cell is distinct and occupies a
single spot in the human body but the multi cellular organism still acts
as one distinct organism. Although that would mean that if
gravitational waves exist and they distort space time that would mean
that space time itself is made of chunks that are distinct but when they
interfere with each other they create the space time, much like atoms
create molecules and molecules create elements etc. I may have it wrong.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
I would like to correct you over there. Waves, do not need a medium to travel. MECHANICAL Waves, do. Mechanical Waves appear as distortion of matter. Water waves are mechanical waves, in essence, that they have literal atoms or molecules executing an SHM motion so that the wave exists. However this is not the case with Light. Light, is an electromagnetic wave. It doesn't require a medium of matter.
Now one may wonder what is, in fact, an Electromagnetic Wave? Well, I won't be restating Maxwell's Equations, but I will just say that it's the oscillating Electric Field and Magnetic Field at each point. At any point, the Magnitude and Direction of Electric and Magnetic Fields are such that plotting them against time, gives a sinusoidal wave on the graph, just like SHM of particles. So these "oscillating" electric and magnetic fields are analogous to oscillating water molecules in a water wave.
So, if there is a wave travelling, it doesn't mean there needs to exist some particle or a chunk. Electrons, and in fact all matter have a wave property to them, which are called Matter Waves. As the professor explains too, the electron is not literally a wave, or a particle. it's in 'superposition' of both, in essence that it exhibits different kinds of properties in different phenomena.
When you look at an atom, electrons behave like standing waves inside the atom, with a certain wavelength. When you look at electrons in a CRT, it displays particle phenomena. Visualising it is, almost impossible. It is the way it is, that is nature (as far as we have discovered).
Good explanation .
This is the best teacher I ever watched!
What a great find!
This professor is awesome!
everything in life seems related and meaningful, from law of attraction, twin flame, to everything, thanks OCW, looking forward to learn more
What you have just named is pseudo science and proves you have not watched a second of this video 💀 gtfo of here
Everything you listed has no basis in reality.
Anyone knows where to find Heisenberg's lecture from 1930, that was mentioned in the video?
you probably found it already, but here you go www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/heisenberg-lecture.html ;) if you just want to read the part hes talking about, page 297.
Thank you thank you for uploading this classes ❤️😭 It's amazing
Absolutely amazing!
If I am learning MIT-level Quantum Mechanics form CZcams, why do I have to pay ANY tuition at my podunk state college?
To obtain a degree. No one knows that you've actually attained the required proficiency in the subject unless you appear for exams.
Hey;
I am super new to physics and quantum. I have picked it all up pretty quickly, I love that it's the part that was always missing for me in classical physics taught in school. The beautiful degree of randomness is now explained so simply.
In the last 6 months, I have bought and binge read range of books on physics, thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, information theory, graph theory, Bells to name a few, it's much more than my wallet is comfortable to admit.
As it's all pretty self-taught on my part and has been more of a covid hobby than anything else. Does anyone have any great resources on the physics notation that could aid my learning process? It's my main weakness as I understand how and why to rearrange them, but yet the notation/symbols I am still pretty slow on.
Thank you, Helen
Good adventures for you! It is to be expected, since most such symbols are randomly attributed, like H, C, & W. Also, many such symbols are context dependent, & ambiguous out of context.
checkout courses on physics on NPTEL youtube channel.
If you actually want to know what's truly going on, check out Bohmian mechanics and pilot wave theory
Thank you Professor Adams and MIT. Professor Adams your artful ability to convey ideas borders on magic.
Everything is MIT. Thank you so much for allowing me to study. Without you I'd only have half the material. Then to be able to rewatch after advancing study. Thank you.
I liked the Band joke :)
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BUT THE REAL SAD THING IS THAT THERE ARE ONLY 69351 VIEWS OF THIS VIDEO!!!!!
sex and gambling are the norm Sir. How do you think the internet is paid for? Not Jewish and Asians professors - though the former invented it at Stanford Cisco Systems founded in 1988.
We gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
Now it's up to 375k!
Sadder is that 80 people disliked it.
420,649 views• as of 10 May 2016. maybe these views are cumulatively going to give an interference pattern, even though they are all at different times?
this guy is absolutley amazing
This stuff is so interesting and well presented. Thanks for sharing.
Question: When describing Bell's Inequality, Professor Adams talked about an electron in two known states. (ie hardness and color). I thought in the previous lecture, we concluded that you couldn't know both the color and softness simultaneously. One of the characteristics must be in a state of superposition. Have I missed something?
I have the same question
I have a question about bell's inequality. During the first lecture he stated that with color and hardness boxes you can't simultaneously measure the color and hardness of an electron. But here with bell's inequality, the parameters each electron is satisfying is 2, isn't that contradictory to the conclusions of lecture one?
I'm just guessing here, but I think you could make sense of it if N(A,B)≠N(B,A). We could declare that N(A,B) is the number of particles that had (for example) A=spin up in the x direction and B = spin up in the y direction where we measured their spin in the x direction first, and then we measured their spin in the y direction, and give a similar definition to N(B,A).
I would love to be corrected if this is not the way to go about ir.
But Bells inequality does not hold in quantum realm...
Qiancheng Fu but you could always introduce time as a binary third parameter
U can understand the statement once u have the knowledge of quantum operators.
Same problem 😂
Thanks for the lecture. Much appreciated.
Great lecture! Well done.
This is the part I don't understand: how can we talk about electrons having both spin up in the x axis and spin down in the y axis? Wont measuring one of the two make the other random like what he talked about in the first lesson?
That is why i guess the inequality does not hold
second lecture: "46 angstroms times the function squared over minus 4..... "
First lecture: Electron, soft. Electron hard.
(46 * x)**2/-4
every good teacher is a great storyteller...he definitely is one ..the narrative he sets has movie like setup..where you have climax haha awsm !
Thank You MIT, You are great people
Greate lecture. Thanks a lot!
I have a question on Bell's inequality. Could someone please explain to me how could anyone get the number of electrons which are hard and black (as shown during 1:17:28 ) or the number of electrons which are hard and not black, etc? In the first lecture, it was shown that there is no such thing as an electron which is hard and black simultaneously. How was this experiment done to calculate the N(H,~B), N(B,~W), and N(H,~W)?
He was playing a bit fast and loose at the end. The inequality actually is a statement about two electrons, so N(H,~B) should be interpreted as one electron is hard and the other one is not black. There is another subtlety though, which is that hardness, color and whimsyness would not actually lead to a violation of the inequality (which is why he started writing angles at the end). You have to be a bit more clever in how you pick which properties of the electron you want to work with.
what year in ug physics is this aimed toward?
Normally 4th but 3rd sometimes depending on the school or possible concentration
Kyle Brown thats actually funny bcz in my country its taught in final year of high school (class 12)
the photoelectric effect and basics of quantisation of light were in mine, are you sure your school went into the full quantum mechanics? what country was that in?
Kyle Brown actually i just this year finished high school and will be joining college. btw i am from India, what about you
new zealand, my school cared more about sport than anything but I did stuff a year ahead and did a first uni physics paper, but that went through all the classical physics topics and didnt go past the two slit experiment in quantum mechanics. I'm 4th year mechanical engineering atm which obviously doesnt cover qm or relativity
This is the best teacher I’ve ever seen
He's an excellent teacher.
The 6 people who didn't like this video have either miss-clicked or they are the kind of idiots which are the reason we have not yet explored and exploited the rest of the galaxy and inhabitable planets.
No, there could be other possible reasons like, they want something more,some confusion in their mind which the professor didn't try to touch.
Damnnnn this would be so hard to learn my mind is blown in like 10 minutes of watching this completely lost 🤦🏼♂️
I know right, makes me feel dumb not understanding any of that stuff...
What an awesome teacher
Great professor! I'm just as excited by how many people in the comments express enthusiasm for QM. I think it's dangerous that in our daily life we utilize technology derived from the concepts discovered by QM but so few people know anything about it and are not interested anyway. To many people our cell phones might as well be magic. We should all be curious about how the universe actually works at both large scales and the smallest scales and how that intersects with our daily lives.
I agree . But most of these concepts are too difficult to understand for the vast majority of people . Especially when taking into consideration the mathematics that underpins all of it .