Weber State University

Instructor: Daniel V. Schroeder

Draft textbook (incomplete!)

Other course materials are posted in the WSU Online (Canvas) system.

Web resources

• Request a home-use Mathematica license under WSU’s site license
• Quantum Mechanics with Mathematica: A Tutorial for Instructors (23-page pdf)
• Web apps written by your instructor
• PhET quantum physics simulations
• Falstad’s math and physics applets
• Physlet Quantum Physics (a large collection of Java applets)
• Minute Physics quantum mechanics videos
• Veritasium quantum videos
• Looking Glass Universe videos (delightful but beware of minor inaccuracies)
• Visualization of Quantum Physics (animated video on wavepackets)
• Atomic Physics and Reality (1985 documentary on tests of Bell’s theorem)
• The Theory of Quantum Mechanics: Seven Lectures for Students of Introductory University Physics by Daniel T. Gillespie
• Feynman on the double-slit paradox (video)
• “Is the moon there when nobody looks? Reality and quantum theory,” by N. David Mermin (Physics Today, April 1985, pp. 38–47).
• Bell's inequality 50 years later
• Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (article by Peter J. Lewis)
• Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (video by Dominic Walliman)
• Quantum Computers Animated
• Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier (video lecture by John Preskill)
• The Most Embarrassing Graph in Modern Physics
• Sean Carroll's advanced course on entanglement
• The Straight Dope on Schrödinger’s cat
• The Blind Men and the Elephant