Quantum Theory without Numbers

Welcome to my 'serious' blog- the one that's not full of nonsense made-up for fun. Here I'll explain quantum theory for people who want to get the gist of it without any mathematics. Follow the posts in chronological order, starting with the oldest (at the bottom of the list on the left). If there's anything you don't understand just leave a comment. Best of luck!

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

The Exclusion Principle

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Schrodinger showed that electrons in atoms could have certain energies, and they could jump between energy levels by emitting or absorbing l...

How quantum theory explains colours

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When Schrodinger developed his famous equation he used it to model the waves of electrons in atoms. He and others found that for any giv...

Colours and spectra

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Before we can finish our exploration of spin, we need to understand a bit more about light. We learned in an earlier post that light is...

Spin

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In the 1920s very sensitive experiments showed that individual electrons act like little magnets. At the time, it was known that the eff...
Monday, 30 January 2017

Quantum tunnelling

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Leaving aside the controversy about whether tunnelling should have only one 'l', quantum tunnelling is a real effect predicted by qu...

Antimatter

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Not long after Schrodinger developed his famous equation in the 1920s, Paul Dirac made a more accurate version that included the recentl...

The Uncertainty Principle

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The Uncertainty Principle was first identified by a physicist called Heisenberg in the 1920s. It is a fundamental consequence of quantum the...
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