It's so good we're living in this age where information is so easily accessible and MIT like Universities are enough generous to provide such valuable lessons for free .

As someone whose school days are long behind him but who has a late passing interest in quantum mechanics, I'm not only grateful for this being online but so badly wish that I had attended MIT and had this gentleman as my professor. He is effortlessly going beyond the basics yet not losing me in the math - which heretofore has been a significant challenge in my self-study journey.

He should have a hand held mic so he can drop it at the end of all lectures...

What I like about his teaching is that he not only teaches physics but also the history and the drama that revolves around it.

Professor Adams is a phenomenal lecturer!

Thank God that the Internet exist and the fact that such knowledge is freely accessible through it.

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This teacher is incredible! The enthusiasm is so contagious. I wish I could take this class :(

I like how he dropped such an insight with respect to Bell's inequality not working in Quantum Mechanics and just say's "see you next Tuesday". That's like dropping the mic and walking off the set in a very funny stand up comedy routine ... you know you have to watch the next episode to be satisfied after that bombshell.

quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, classical mechanics: these lectures are intimidating if you go in expecting to understand the first time you watch. Its much more enjoyable to watch them several times, taking in more meaning with each viewing. Just as interesting as the best shows on netflix. Has more staying power than most good novels.

That is one really passionate human being

Wonderful lectures by Prof. Adams. Same topics as when I took 8.04, but delivered with such enthusiasm and with memorable analogies. I admire the way in which he defers using the actual names of certain quantum properties, calling them instead hardness, color, smooth and chunky. This gives the students a way to grasp the concepts, without even mentioning confusing terms such as quanta and spin. Greatly enjoyed his quick allusion to the original Star Trek and red shirts in Lecture 1. We all appreciate MIT's generosity and sense of public service in providing these lectures to the world. Years ago some of us paid tuition for them. Now everyone can appreciate the excellent teaching.

This guy reminds me of Gilbert Strang, also from MIT, who has online recording of his lectures on Linear Algebra, another topic (like quantum mechanics) I never thought I would get but after the first lectures, Strang made so much sense compared to the other books and materials I tried to understand that I really understood it and to my surprise I stuck with the lectures to the end including doing homework problems from one of Strang’s books. We’ll see how long I make it in this one, this is harder than Linear Algebra, but after the intro lectures I already feel like I understand some of these concepts in a way that many pop science books and videos never achieved.

Thank you for putting these out there MIT!

I'm an undergrad in my final year of my Bachelor of Science, i've almost completed my taste of the Quantum Mechanics i'm gonna get but i love how this guy teaches and will be here until the end!

He's a super dope lecturer who goes at a great pace, explains nuisances very well, and is very entertaining to watch. Thanks for uploading these!

I don’t remember my professors having anywhere near this level of enthusiasm… love this guy. (Once the math kicks in, in the next video, I’m in over my head)

38:54 the book is "Einstein in Berlin" by Thomas Levenson

Incredible stuff! Thanks MIT for putting it online, thanks prof Adams for these great, passionate and so well put lectures!!

Professor Gordon Freeman teaches me Quantum Physics. I always knew I needed this. Thank you MIT.

Exhausted but exhilarated by the entire lecture series so far. Wonderful series, fantastic lecturer wishing I was eighteen and could take the course!!

This dude is a awesome lecturer, I failed math twice in highschool but the way he explains things makes it so easy to grasp

Love the way Professor Adams ends lectures with a flourish!

professor Adam is dope at explaining and being enthusiastic

I've never taken a QP class in my life but Im fascinated by this. Whats even more fascinating is that I can actually understand most of it. 👏 to this chaps enthusiasm - goes a lomg way. Saved some for larer viewing.

Bell's Inequality!!! That was awesome

I love this guys enthusiasm for the subject.

This is one hell of a lecture! Particularly, the Bell Inequality part. I still can't believe the real world is so different.

Allan Adams encapsulates what a good teacher is! The enthusiasm, the ease of communication, the humor, and that fucking outfit! Love him!

What Rutherford *actually* said (4:40) was "It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you". As a Kiwi living and working in England he would have had little interest in 10-pin bowling. He also said "All science is either physics or stamp collecting", with which I heartily concur. Two other favourites: "An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid", and "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment".

Adams is such a great professor. So good.

good luck you young guys, I wish I didn't make that many wrong choices when I was young, cause I always loved learning, I just didn't like schools, now I am older, I even was a teacher for a while before I got ill, that was the best time of my life, good to see you have such great teachers like this man, you are really lucky with this guy, he has passion in teaching, not every teacher has that ability, just drag yourself through cause it will pay of in the end, way to go folks and thank you for this video and all the others

Sir Allen Adams can make really good students because of his wonderful *PERSONALITY* and *TEACHING* THANKS MIT OCW

Thank you MIT and Professor Adams! This series has enriched my life and helped me understand phenomena I hadn't before.

How is this not a tv series ...I am getting hooked at the end of every episode

I have always read about Bell’s Inequality.... this is the first time I understood it as it stands... thank you MIT and prof...

Claps at the end of a lecture, amazing

thank you MIT

Professor Adams is an awesome teacher.

Great explanation! Thank you Mr. Adams!

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When the students laugh at 14:30, it really shows that those are people that truly want to be there. I'm just trying to imagine telling the same story in the same way to lowerclassmen undergrads at my university and the crickets I'd get

Amazing lecturer with total involvement.

He is so passionate and skillfull professor .....really I love these lectures

Thanks MIT for this precious study material.

Maybe he is a theorist but he has such a great great understanding of classical experiments and can expose the core core idea of it and discard the technical details as gossip news is so inspiring~ His lecture may be on par with Feynmann s

Thank you very much for this fantastic lecture!

Some of the best lectures I've seen. Definitely earns his salary.

Great Professor Adams as always you have kept my mouth wide open.............

Amazing. Prof Allan makes it so much interesting. Thanks to both MIT and the professor

Thank you thank you for uploading this classes ❤️😭 It's amazing

Thank you very much. I truly appreciate the content and of course, the talented staff. Bravo.

Fantastic course. I'm in accounting and I watched first 1 lectures in one go. Will be looking forward to download lectures, materials and actually watching through the whole course.

A Higgs-boson particle goes into a church. The vicar says "We don't want your sort in here!" The Higgs-boson particle says "But you can't have mass without me!"

Absolutely amazing!

Great job, it is phenomenal!

That closing statement literally gives me a goosebumps

I wish I could go to those office hours, this is awesome!

Thanks for the lecture. Much appreciated.

He's AWESOME!!!! Oh my God, I am so thankful for this existing. This is the best explanation of this subject I've found yet in a way that's easy to understand and SUPER engaging. Yay!!!

The way sir connected the first lecture to this is outstanding, The moment 55:01 I realised this

1:18:15 - didn't we establish in lecture 1 though that we assign two properties simultaneously to an electron.

That see you on Tuesday after he finishes the lecture is just so badass!

that was one hell of a lecture and he nailed it at the end!

The final statement was stately as a conclusion! WOW!

I have a question regarding the last point about the Bell's Inequality. In the formula, the term N(H, not B) was actually established as meaningless in the first lesson: You can't say anything about the color of 'hard' electrons. So, something happened that we now can do an experiment with hard and not black (white) electrons.

What a great find! This professor is awesome!

This man has some powerful energy while teaching i watched some lectures by accident and even if its not my type of videos he kept me listening and i understood some of them pretty easily... Good job!! Teach our teachers how to teach us man ... PLEASE

50:32 just blew my mind.

Anyone knows where to find Heisenberg's lecture from 1930, that was mentioned in the video?

This is the best teacher I ever watched!

Thank you Professor Adams and MIT. Professor Adams your artful ability to convey ideas borders on magic.

Hey; I am super new to physics and quantum. I have picked it all up pretty quickly, I love that it's the part that was always missing for me in classical physics taught in school. The beautiful degree of randomness is now explained so simply. In the last 6 months, I have bought and binge read range of books on physics, thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, information theory, graph theory, Bells to name a few, it's much more than my wallet is comfortable to admit. As it's all pretty self-taught on my part and has been more of a covid hobby than anything else. Does anyone have any great resources on the physics notation that could aid my learning process? It's my main weakness as I understand how and why to rearrange them, but yet the notation/symbols I am still pretty slow on. Thank you, Helen

Question: When describing Bell's Inequality, Professor Adams talked about an electron in two known states. (ie hardness and color). I thought in the previous lecture, we concluded that you couldn't know both the color and softness simultaneously. One of the characteristics must be in a state of superposition. Have I missed something?

this guy is absolutley amazing

I love this lecture so much. Thank you Prof. Adams for inspiring us Quantum Mechanics

I have a question about bell's inequality. During the first lecture he stated that with color and hardness boxes you can't simultaneously measure the color and hardness of an electron. But here with bell's inequality, the parameters each electron is satisfying is 2, isn't that contradictory to the conclusions of lecture one?

Thank you for uploading this great lecture. I am not a physicist, I am a biologist but the lecturers are so well explained that even I can understand it and be intrigued by it. I am just a bit confused with the duality of light and electrons that are actually quanta of energy or single electrons respectively but when they interact with each other they behave as a wave (or at least exhibit some wave like properties). For some reason this duality is presented as counter intuitive but to my mind , and I may be completely wrong, but to my mind what we call a classical wave is a distortion of matter, molecules and zooming in atoms moving in a specific way through space passing energy from one to another. The wave is a movement of matter so it has all the properties mentioned is not localized and it exhibits interference. However a wave needs a material to travel through (again I may be wrong that is what I remember from my physics class) So if wave is a movement or distortion of matter it doesn't have an existence as a photon for example has or as a water molecule, but the molecules for example of the water forming the wave on a pond are distinct molecules of water so in a way every wave can have that duality because the matter through which it moves is made of distinct molecules and atoms but when then move together they create the wave. Pretty much as a human cell is distinct and occupies a single spot in the human body but the multi cellular organism still acts as one distinct organism. Although that would mean that if gravitational waves exist and they distort space time that would mean that space time itself is made of chunks that are distinct but when they interfere with each other they create the space time, much like atoms create molecules and molecules create elements etc. I may have it wrong. I would appreciate any suggestions.

Phenomenal lecturer giving a fantastic lecture.

Everything is MIT. Thank you so much for allowing me to study. Without you I'd only have half the material. Then to be able to rewatch after advancing study. Thank you.

I liked the Band joke :) love from germany

everything in life seems related and meaningful, from law of attraction, twin flame, to everything, thanks OCW, looking forward to learn more

Great lecture! Well done.

This is the best teacher I’ve ever seen

This is the part I don't understand: how can we talk about electrons having both spin up in the x axis and spin down in the y axis? Wont measuring one of the two make the other random like what he talked about in the first lesson?

BUT THE REAL SAD THING IS THAT THERE ARE ONLY 69351 VIEWS OF THIS VIDEO!!!!!

This stuff is so interesting and well presented. Thanks for sharing.

what really fascinates me is how we've gotten so good at harnessing the power of the electron.

If I am learning MIT-level Quantum Mechanics form UKposts, why do I have to pay ANY tuition at my podunk state college?

I can't believe I wasted my time learning finance and not this !

Thank You MIT, You are great people

its just awsome to love unorthodox!!...thanks sir...

Greate lecture. Thanks a lot! I have a question on Bell's inequality. Could someone please explain to me how could anyone get the number of electrons which are hard and black (as shown during 1:17:28 ) or the number of electrons which are hard and not black, etc? In the first lecture, it was shown that there is no such thing as an electron which is hard and black simultaneously. How was this experiment done to calculate the N(H,~B), N(B,~W), and N(H,~W)?

The 6 people who didn't like this video have either miss-clicked or they are the kind of idiots which are the reason we have not yet explored and exploited the rest of the galaxy and inhabitable planets.

I'm loving it!

What an awesome teacher

Damnnnn this would be so hard to learn my mind is blown in like 10 minutes of watching this completely lost 🤦🏼‍♂️

what year in ug physics is this aimed toward?

every good teacher is a great storyteller...he definitely is one ..the narrative he sets has movie like setup..where you have climax haha awsm !

He's an excellent teacher.