Quantum Mechanics Made Very Very Easy:

[rweba]

I have always been very interested in modern physics and perhaps especially in Quantum Mechanics but couldn't seem to my head around it. Fortunately Prof. Scott Aaronson gave a series of lectures at Waterloo which really helped clear things up.

First, why is it that many people find quantum mechanics hard to understand?

There are two ways to

Comments

[jcreed]

I really like Aaronson's explanations of things. The "interruptions from the audience" that he includes really help, too.

Yeah, that actually is very effective

[rweba]

In general giving lectures really helps you think about a topic I've found.

[gustavolacerda]

Thanks for posting this! My original reasons for leaving Physics were that the curriculum seemed very silly if goal is actually to understand stuff.

I've never studies physics so I don't know

[rweba]

how they do it.

Its too bad if they don't try to get students to conceptually understand stuff.