Lecture 2: Experimental Facts of Life
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- MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2013
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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.
Fair Use credit updated for the music, video quality upgraded to 1080p.
Nice! 1080p HYPE!!!
Nice! 1080p HYPE!!!
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.
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
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. 😊
Could you explain me why this course is called 8.04?
He should have a hand held mic so he can drop it at the end of all lectures...
absolutely :)
Correct 😂
Mic drop
GHAYYY
I'd like this comment but it's already at 420.
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…
Thank God that the Internet exist and the fact that such knowledge is freely accessible through it.
💯
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.
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
No ads, no nothing, just pure lesson, I haven't even studied these kinds of lessons yet but I somehow understand every single word that the lecturer says
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?
This dude is a awesome lecturer, I failed math twice in highschool but the way he explains things makes it so easy to grasp
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!
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.
Allan Adams encapsulates what a good teacher is! The enthusiasm, the ease of communication, the humor, and that fucking outfit! Love him!
That is one really passionate human being
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".
Incredible stuff! Thanks MIT for putting it online, thanks prof Adams for these great, passionate and so well put lectures!!
I am not familiar with Quantum Mechanics as I am just learning that to be ready for the next era of Quantum Systems apps in our future. Even as a Software Developer I can understand all classes easily and not getting bored due to his enthusiasm and his teaching approach, enjoying and loving his own job.
Thank you Prof. Adams. I won’t forget how I started into Quantum Mechanics field and how it changed my life migrating from coding classic apps to quantum apps/systems.
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?
Love the way Professor Adams ends lectures with a flourish!
Exhausted but exhilarated by the entire lecture series so far. Wonderful series, fantastic lecturer wishing I was eighteen and could take the course!!
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.
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!!!
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
How is this not a tv series ...I am getting hooked at the end of every episode
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
Beautiful explanations, prof Adams is excellent at breaking down complex topics and making them seem very simple and intuitive. I wish I had access to the problem sheets.
professor Adam is dope at explaining and being enthusiastic
MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics.
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".
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
38:54 the book is "Einstein in Berlin" by Thomas Levenson
Thanks
Thanks
Last time, he said see you on Thursday, its Sunday morning here. I'm rewatching these lectures from Kenya... Africa. This is what the internet was made for.
This is one hell of a lecture! Particularly, the Bell Inequality part. I still can't believe the real world is so different.
what really fascinates me is how we've gotten so good at harnessing the power of the electron.
That closing statement literally gives me a goosebumps
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 .
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.
This is the best teacher I’ve ever seen
Thank you MIT and Professor Adams! This series has enriched my life and helped me understand phenomena I hadn't before.
You know you are amazing when you can teach quantum physics to a pharmacy graduate like me.
Great lecture.
satish kumar bro I’m in grade 10 and he can teach to me. He really is amazing
Claps at the end of a lecture, amazing
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
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?
"See you on next tuesday". Talk about suspense. This is so much better than netflix.
I wish I could go to those office hours, this is awesome!
You're a good teacher dude don't forget that. You got a class to clap and cheer for the fucking double slit experiment. Never underestimate the full impact of that.
The way sir connected the first lecture to this is outstanding, The moment 55:01 I realised this
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.
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
badummtss
I'm in 8th grade, in high school physics, and even I understood this clearly. I am astonished how good of a teacher he is.
Then you can surely tell me what a quantum is. ;-)
The smallest subatomic partical, non duplicable, and relative in energy.
@@Kyle-sz2xq There are no particles. There are only people who aren't paying attention in school when the concept of a quantum is being explained to them. You need to stop guessing and learn the definitions. ;-)
OK, OK, you got me there, it is the middle of the school year. Studying for midterms are a thing. So, sorry for not learning the definitions to a point but more concepts. And also I have trigonometry, and other ap courses to study for. And maybe stop arguing with 13 year olds who are just trying to give a unseen complement to the professor. And hears one for you, what is the purpose of the ATP-binding cassette sub family B member 1, in cancer cells. Just something to chew on.
@@Kyle-sz2xq I don't do biology. I only do physics. That's because it is something I actually know. Advice for your future self: don't try to be a smartass about things that you don't understand, yet. ;-)
And no, you can't learn quantum theory from this professor, either. He is slightly better than some of the others, but he still makes the same fundamental mistakes when he is trying to explain it as everybody else. The status of QM 101 courses is almost equally abysmal all over this planet (I know because I looked at quite a few of them). You would have to visit some university at least a few parsecs away to see a really good class. ;-)
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?
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.
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...
why do i wake up to 2 hour mit lectures constantly??? my dream self must be fucking versed by now
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 .
I love this guys enthusiasm for the subject.
I can't believe I wasted my time learning finance and not this !
Sir was like proving Bell's inequality... And convence us that it's correct........ And when we are convenced to it.... He says it wrong 😶😶😶...... True legend 👏
Yeah
Amazing. Prof Allan makes it so much interesting. Thanks to both MIT and the professor
I have always read about Bell’s Inequality.... this is the first time I understood it as it stands... thank you MIT and prof...
1:18:15 - didn't we establish in lecture 1 though that we assign two properties simultaneously to an electron.
Seriously
These kind of teachers are need to be in normal collages
I wish I had a teacher like him
He is explaing things which are all connected
Agree! A very good rundown (without equations!), from Rutherford to CERN, that (almost) everyone in a college can understand!
thank you MIT
Fell asleep and woke up watching MIT… how did I get here…
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.
Probably the best hour spent on the net in a while
Great Professor Adams as always you have kept my mouth wide open.............
wish I had people like this growing up. Most called me crazy.
There's always something new determined upon the point of view.
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.
На тайминге 49:42 играет песня 5’nizza "Солдат". Это - эпично!
At 49:42 the 5’nizza song “Soldier” is playing. This is epic!
50:32 just blew my mind.
The fact he got a classroom to clap for double slit experiment blew my mind lol
That see you on Tuesday after he finishes the lecture is just so badass!
49:38 music: Комбат - я солдат
Kassen Boyaubai Yup, by 5Nizza
пятница я солдат if being more accurate
thanks
You can always tell physics professors by their hands. If they run their fingers across the chalkboard, they usually end up leaving behind more chalk than they took away.
This might be true of professors in other fields, but it's most true for physics professors in my experience.
If I am learning MIT-level Quantum Mechanics form TH-cam, 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.
This should be the standard for data per minute utilizing this vocal speed as a baseline
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.
I am grateful for this wonderful nature of the universities and I hope to gain admission soon
The final statement was stately as a conclusion!
WOW!
Phenomenal lecturer giving a fantastic lecture.
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
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 !
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 😂
He is so passionate and skillfull professor .....really I love these lectures
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
Some of the best lectures I've seen. Definitely earns his salary.
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
as an EE student who just finished some electromagnetism and circuit classes, my mind is blown
If you want your mind blown more, take a look at Pilot Wave theory and Bohmian mechanics. It does away with this hocus pocus model of QM and works on both the macroscopic and microscopic level unlike the Copenhagen Interpretation (which is what this stuff is)
second lecture: "46 angstroms times the function squared over minus 4..... "
First lecture: Electron, soft. Electron hard.
(46 * x)**2/-4
I feel like the Pilot wave notion makes the point-like electrons that show wave-like behaviors make sense.
I liked the Band joke :)
love from germany
The best lesson I learned from this was Gargamelle, despite his very best efforts, never catches a smurf.
btw how many different nalgene bottles does this guy have?
Maybe he runs as a hobby? Nalgene bottles are often in the little baggies they give you for signing up to community 5ks, 10ks, half marathons, etc. (Some nice shirts too.)
MIT guy is making it way harder than it is
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.
Vo must be dependant on frequency and not on intensity .. Photocurrent is dependent on intensity..
Love the lecture btw...