PHY100S - The Magic of Physics - Class 21 - March 27, 2006

Announcements

Pre-Class Quiz #9 of 9:
- Monday, April 3 at the beginning of class
- Chapter 18
Homework #10:
- Chapter 14: Conceptual Exercises 23, 26. Critical Thinking Exercise 1.
- Chapter 15: Conceptual Exercise 18
- Due by 5 PM Monday April 3 in the Drop box for your tutor.

Reminder

The Long Paper is due one week today by 5 PM in the Drop Box for your tutor.

Today's Class

We finished our discussion of entanglement.

We then turned our attention to Bohr's Principle of Complementarity and its development into the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory. Our approach was somewhat different than the text, and is hopefully complementary to Hobson's discussion.

Course Notes on our approach are available via the links to the right. We did not discuss the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics section.

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We used a PowerPoint presentation. Much but not all of the material is also contained in the Course Notes, but the link to the right accesses a pdf of the PowerPoint.

Here is today's Journal.