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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

For Students 11th - 12th
Understand classic correspondence, coherent and squeezed states, quantum transitions, and quantum dissipation in this animation. Get a foundation for quantum mechanics.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Flash Animations for Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site boasts an extensive list of physics animations that cover topics such as electricity, magnetism, quantum mechanics, and relativity. Variables can be manipulated for each demonstration.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Erwin Schrodinger

For Students 9th - 10th
ScienceWorld.com offers a brief biography and image of Austrian physicist and inventor of wave mechanics, Erwin Schrodinger.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Quantum Physics: An Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive demonstration provides students with an introduction to Quantum Physics. They will also be introduced to wave/particle duality, Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle, superposition, Schrodinger's cat, and wavefunction.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Quantum Atomic Structure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This multi-day lesson plan helps students to understand how the models of the atom have changed and how quantum mechanics affects the electrons as they orbit the nucleus.
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Purdue University

Purdue University: Orbital Shells

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Purdue University provides an overview of atomic orbitals and how quantum numbers specify these orbitals. Includes a model that can be rotated and examined in 3D. Includes learning exercises and answers.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Rectangular Well Superposition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A simulation that displays the 2D evolution of the position-space of a wave in an infinite 2D rectangular well.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Qm Measurement Package

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn how to make measurement of energy eigenstates and their superpositions in quantum mechanics. Tutorial and exercises are included.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Schrodinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment in Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, what will be the state...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

For Students 9th - 10th
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time....
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Particles and Waves: The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the most amazing facts in physics is that everything in the universe, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. But how did physicists arrive at this mind-boggling conclusion? Chad...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Can Schrodinger's Cat Teach Us About Quantum Mechanics?

For Students 9th - 10th
One great example of quantum physics' weirdness can be shown in the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment. Josh Samani walks us through this experiment in quantum entanglement. [5:24]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Making Sense of a Visible Quantum Object

For Students 9th - 10th
Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O'Connell has blurred that distinction...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Rutherford Scattering

For Students 9th - 10th
How did Rutherford figure out the structure of the atom without being able to see it? Simulate the famous experiment in which he disproved the Plum Pudding model of the atom by observing alpha particles bouncing off atoms and determining...
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Rules of Randomness

For Students 9th - 10th
Discuss methods of working with probabilities and quantum physics in this article.
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PBS

Pbs: Watch the Elegant Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
This 3 hour minseries on String Theory is divided up into 24 sections. Each is accompanied by a brief explanation and only lasts about 7 minutes. This series is perfect for any one looking to get a better grasp on this thrilling concept.
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PBS

Science Odyssey: Heisenberg States Uncertainty Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, that it is impossible to know both the momentum and position of an electron, along with describing the impact that it made upon the scientific community upon its introduction in 1927.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Werner Heisenberg

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Spanish-language entry, trace the life and accomplishments of Werner Heisenberg, the great physicist whose work with quantum mechanics resulted in earning the Nobel Prize.
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PBS

Pbs: Planck Discovers the Quantum Nature of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers a short summary of the discovery of the quantum nature of the atom by Max Planck. Easy to follow.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure: Quarks

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the six different types of quarks: the up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom quarks.
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Other

Erik's Chemistry Page: Electronic Structure of Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of quantum theory, the Bohr model of the atom, the quantum mechanical atom, the Scrodinger equation, and quantum numbers.
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Other

Quantum Mysteries: Deepening Quantum Mysteries

For Students 9th - 10th
Although it is arguably the most successful theory in physics, quantum physics has often baffled and confounded both its practitioners and the general public. This informative website discusses the types of mysteries, which still plague...
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Other

Quantum Field Theories: Quantum Topology

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides links to papers dealing with Quantum Field Theories and Quantum Topology. In addition there are links to several physics websites.
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Other

Particles, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
Quantum physics, despite its inherent weirdness, is thus far the best model physicists have for explaining the universe. This site gives a great overview of the principles of quantum mechanics and gives scenarios to help the reader...