The Weird World of Quantum Physics
Like Duolingo, but for The Weird World of Quantum Physics. 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 The Weird World of Quantum Physics
- Energy can only be added or removed in specific, fixed amounts
- Quantum leaps are instantaneous disappearances and reappearances
- The electron will ignore energy inputs that don't match a 'step' on its ladder
- Electrons do not have a 'travel path' between states
- There is no 'in-between' state for energy levels
- The transition is a change in state, not a journey through distance
- The fundamental difference between classical continuous energy and quantum discrete energy
- The nature of the 'quantum leap' as an instantaneous transition
- Light is the 'leftover' energy released when an electron drops to a lower level
- Higher energy jumps produce light with higher frequency (violet/blue)
- There is a 'ground state' which is the absolute lowest step on the ladder
- The relationship between energy jump size and light frequency/color
- Quantum rules forbid an electron from existing in the space between the ground state and the nucleus
- Everything in the universe is built from indivisible units
- The 'graininess' of the universe is only visible at the atomic scale
- Why atoms don't collapse despite electrical attraction
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 The Weird World of Quantum Physics 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 try to give an electron a tiny bit of energy that doesn't match a specific 'step,' what happens?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where The Weird World of Quantum Physics takes you
Discover why the universe gets strange at the smallest scales and how 'spooky' particles power the technology in your pocket.
- 1
The Rules of the Very Small
- The Quantum Leap
- Waves, Particles, and Being Two Places at Once
- 2
Connections and Consequences
- Entanglement and the Limits of Knowledge
- Quantum Tech in Your Pocket
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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