Quantum Physics in Your Pocket
Like Duolingo, but for Quantum Physics in Your Pocket. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Quantum Physics in Your Pocket
- Higher temperatures are required to produce shorter, higher-energy wavelengths of light
- Red light has lower energy than blue or ultraviolet light
- Why heat sources transition through specific colors rather than jumping to high-energy light
- The 'Ultraviolet Catastrophe' predicted infinite energy at short wavelengths in a continuous system
- Quantized energy (packets) limits the production of high-frequency light at lower temperatures
- The relationship between the 'packet' nature of light and the prevention of the ultraviolet catastrophe
- Light energy is delivered in discrete units rather than a smooth stream
- The term 'quanta' or 'photons' describes these individual packets
- Metals have no band gap and always conduct
- Insulators have a gap too large for electrons to jump
- Semiconductors have a 'tunable' gap that allows control over electron flow
- Classical switches generate too much heat and are physically limited by size
- Quantum band gaps allow for solid-state switching at the atomic scale
- How the band gap determines if a material can switch between conducting and insulating
- The impact of quantum understanding on device miniaturization
- The band gap is an energy hurdle electrons must cross
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Quantum Physics in Your Pocket the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you want to make light with very short, high-energy wavelengths, what do you need to do to the temperature?
Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.
Where Quantum Physics in Your Pocket takes you
Stop thinking about abstract equations and start seeing the quantum world in your everyday life. Discover how the strange rules of the tiny make your phone work, your toaster glow, and your cat (theoretically) immortal.
- 1
Spotting Quantum Magic at Home
- How Your Toaster Uses Light
- The Secret Inside Your Smartphone
- Why the Sun Doesn't Burn Out
- Lasers: Light That Stays in Line
- The Mystery of Solid Objects
- 2
Thinking Like a Quantum Scientist
- Being in Two Places at Once
- The Truth About Schrodinger's Cat
- Teleporting Information Instantly
- 3
The Rules of the Tiny World
- Energy Comes in Little Packets
- Particles That Act Like Waves
- The Limit of What We Can Know
- How Atoms Stay Together
3 sections · 12 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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