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
- Metals always allow electricity to flow and cannot be turned off
- Semiconductors can be toggled between conducting and insulating states
- Why semiconductors are used for switching instead of metals
- Energy gaps act as physical barriers for electrons
- The size of the gap determines if a material can switch states
- The relationship between energy gaps and electron flow
- Transistors use electric fields to change material properties
- Switching happens by changing energy levels, not moving parts
- Electrons need an external energy push to cross a gap
- Crossing the gap is the requirement for current to flow
- The process of an electron crossing a semiconductor barrier
- Moving across gaps releases energy as heat
- The state of the gate (on or off) represents digital data
- The mechanism of a transistor as a gatekeeper
- Consequences of electron energy movement in transistors
- Electricity pushes electrons into the material
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.
What makes a semiconductor the ideal material for a computer's brain?
Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.
Where Quantum Physics in Your Pocket takes you
Move beyond the mystery and see how quantum mechanics powers your everyday life. Discover how particles behaving like waves make your smartphone, medical scans, and future computers possible.
- 1
Harnessing the Tiny Powerhouse
- How Electrons Flow Through Your Phone
- The Magic of Light-Emitting Diodes
- Lasers: Concentrating Light Waves
- Storing Data in Magnetic Flips
- 2
Seeing the Invisible World
- Using Magnetic Spin for Medical Scans
- Atomic Clocks and Precise Navigation
- Night Vision and the Photoelectric Effect
- Electron Microscopes: Seeing Beyond Light
- Detecting Gravity with Quantum Sensors
- Ultra-Sensitive Thermometers
- 3
The Future of Information
- Computing with Multiple States at Once
- Unbreakable Codes and Secure Messaging
- Teleporting Information Between Particles
- 4
The Rules Behind the Reality
- Wave-Particle Duality in Action
- Tunneling: Passing Through Solid Barriers
- Entanglement: The Invisible Connection
- Probability Clouds and Energy Levels
- The Limits of Measuring the Universe
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Quantum Physics in Your Pocket is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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