Re: [Phys-L] quantum physics

[Anthony Lapinski <alapinski@pds.org>]

We're in the TikTok era. Kids don't want to watch a video of a professor
talking for an hour. And we should not be teaching like this either!

On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:23 AM Daniel MacIsaac via Phys-l <
phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:

> I agree Anthony, and was referring to JD’s links to the NZ lectures which
> are
> pretty low mathematical — they’re really a chalk rehash of his QED book.
> The
> Cassiopeia shorts may be what you want for your students, and those rehash
> QED and action via some nice animations without college math.
>
> Dan M
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> > On May 6, 2022, at 09:18, Anthony Lapinski <alapinski@pds.org> wrote:
> >
> > The Feynman lectures are good -- for adults. Not HS students. At least
> not
> > my students.
> >
> > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:12 AM Zani, Gerald via Phys-l <
> > phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:
> >
> > > As Dan mentioned, there is the famously well known Feynman lecture on QM
> > > called
> > > Probability and Uncertainty: the quantum mechanical view of nature(1:16)
> > > https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/fml.html#6
> > >
> > > In this video there are a number of famously good quotes, one of which
> is;
> > > "But the difficulty (of QM), really, is psychological, and exists in the
> > > perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how
> can
> > > it be like that!"—which really is a reflection of an uncontrolled, but I
> > > say utterly vain desire, to see it (QM) in terms of some analogy with
> > > something familiar.
> > >
> > > It is lecture 6 of the The 1964 Cornell Feynman Messenger Lecture
> Series:
> > > https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/messenger.html
> > >
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_Lectures
> > >
> > > - JZ
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