Is there any real connection between QM and eastern mysticism, as some have alleged?
Is there any real connection between QM and postmodern thought, as some have alleged?
How is QM involved in the production of sunlight?
How is QM involved in lasers?
How is QM involved in the workings of transistors, and hence computers?
How is QM involved in medical MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)?
Read portions of Richard Feynman's book "QED" and review it in light of what you've learned in this course.
Read Richard Feynman's essay on QM in "The Character of Physical Law." (This essay is based on the lecture we viewed early in the course.) Review it in light of what you've learned in this course.
Quantum ideas in 20th centry classical music.
Do QM ideas have any effect on the ideas of your major discipline?
Quantum cryptography. (See "Scientific American" over the last five years.)
Quantum computing. (Check out "Scientific American" again.)
Michael Frayn's play, "Copenhagen".
Tom Stoppard's play, "Hapgood".
Textbook: Appendix D, question 7.
History of QM: The Bohr-Einstein debate.
The mathematician Emma Nother and her influence on QM.
Analytic biography of any of these QM pioneers: Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Louise de Broglie, Erwin Schrodinger, Carl Eckert, Paul Dirac, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Tony Leggett, Hans Bethe, Michael Fisher, Richard Feynman, Charles Townes, Steven Weinberg, Abdus Salam, Sheldon Glashow, Ken Wilson, Lucien Hardy, Paul Kwait.
A blank-verse play: Electra, if only Sophocles had known QM.
Ten quantal haiku.