Rundown on quantum physics please?
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in the classical world, a thing is on or off, in quantum physics it can be on, off, or both on AND off at the same time.\n\ni can either throw a brick at your face, or have it in my hand, in the quantum world, i could have it in my hand and hitting you in the face.
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i have to agree with absynthian.  if they are in fact "physicists" then that means they have doctoral degrees in physics and telling them about quantum entanglement or string theory is going to be like giving a bunch of senators a talk about legislative procedure.  \n\nchaos theory, quantum entanglement/teleportation, and string theory are all huge and hot topics these days in physics, and they'll all have read plenty about them in physics today, nature and science, even if they aren't active researchers in that area.  you are going to bore their socks off if you get up there and start telling them about how strings are 11-dimensional objects, unless you have some really seriously deep and intuitive observations on the subject that you can share.\n\nhere is some good advice:  physicists are always interested in the historical development of their field.  the work of the big-name scientists - newton, galileo, maxwell - is well-known.  but there are a lot of physicists from the annals of history who led interesting lives and who often worked on subjects ahead of their time.  if you can find a research topic and show how someone from the 18th century studied a related phenomenon, and give it a historical twist, i think THAT would be a hit talk.\n\nanother thing might be to discuss some weird little topic from the back waters of physics.  people do research on all kinds of crazy stuff that's fun and interesting, but doesn't get much press.  for instance, nasa does a buttload of research into weird little problems - an example is that nobody understood why ketchup flows so slow at first, and then comes pouring out, until nasa figured it out.  that's one of many examples from this great page that might help you get started:\nhttp://exploration.nasa.gov/articles/index.html#fris\n\nanother way to get into this stuff is to just start searching around the web and looking at the research pages of faculty at various universities.  many of them will be working on hot topics - high-temperature superconductors or quantum information theory or photonics or something.  but you'll probably find one or two old guys at every place who are working on some totally off-the-wall thing.  THAT kind of stuff will be much better than the talk that ends with "..but we still have no idea whether string theory is really correct or not."\n\ncheers
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Try,\n\nhttp://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/d/x/dxh40/MBLemma.pdf
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check this out for info on spin\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(physics)
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Hi, \n\nThat's too much like real work, but think about it like breaking pool balls in classical, and wave interference with quantum. \n\nHope that helps, \nMatt
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Quantum physics is a branch of science that deals with discrete, indivisible units of energy called quanta to relate that movie to it, well, it could be used as a inside joke, if you touch my back , well you in heat, if you get my point.
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Dear Madame,\n\nYou could try testing wave-particle duality nature of photons, and report on how the theory corresponds with Schodiger's findings in the early 20th century. \n\nAnyone can put a light bulb in a potato. Also, the above response about commercials is about as unscientific as you can get. I don't trust emus.\n\nPianoguy
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Quantum mechanics is a fundamental physical theory which extends and corrects Newtonian mechanics, especially at the atomic and subatomic levels. It is the underlying framework of many fields of physics and chemistry, including condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, and particle physics. The term quantum (Latin, "how much") refers to the discrete units that the theory assigns to certain physical quantities, such as the energy of an atom at rest.
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www.wikipedia.org\nenter each term and there is plenty of explanation.
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theorotical physics is a subject based on quantum physics.......... basically there are no practicals in this subject and it depends only on theory
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Here ya go!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose-Einstein_condensate
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read this page\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(physics)
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http://www.phys.cwru.edu/\n\nThere's stuff about courses, degree programs, research basically anything you'll need.
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I'd start with Kittel's book "Introduction to Solid State Physics".  It's a good introductory text on the subject.  It's concise, and touches on a bunch of good topics.\n\nAshcroft and Mermin is the classic text on the subject, but it goes into a lot of depth on the subject, and it might be a bit much for a first read.  However,  if you don't mind lots and lots of words, you could give it a shot.  I, however, wouldn't read it until after Kittel.
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for sure.\n\nbible is descriptive.... quantum physics is a snap.\n\naren't you glad..\n\nthat way its cover 11 or 12 diminsions where you only think in 3 or 4.
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Quantum Physics is the Science and Study of Atomic Particles, the most basic of which is the Electron, the Proton and the Neutron, and the futher study of the constituent parts of those particles, Quarks, Muons, Gluons, etc etc etc.\n\nThe Standard Model is the best way to learn these particles. There is (apparently) no rhyme or reason as to the why's and wherefor's of the Standard Model - meaning that nobody knows WHY the weights are what they are, nobody knows why the numbers shake out the way they do and the particles organize themselves the way they do - this is one of the last great mysteries of Physics that modern M-Theory (String or SuperString Theory) is attempting to answer.\n\nHere's a good link or three\n\nOf them all, I would recommend the Wiki as a great place to start... Take notes, it's fairly complex, you can do it!
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chemistry, quantum mechanics...