{"id":12022,"date":"2014-06-27T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2014-06-27T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:49:38","slug":"quantum-mechanics-open-course-from-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/quantum-mechanics-open-course-from-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Mechanics Open Course from MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kids today don’t know how good they have it. Back when I was learning quantum mechanics, the process involved steps like “going to lectures.” Not only did that require physical movement from the comfort of one’s home to dilapidated lecture halls, but — get this — you actually had to be there at some pre-arranged time! Often early in the morning.<\/p>\n

These days, all you have to do is fire up the YouTube and watch lectures on your own time. MIT has just released an entire undergraduate quantum course<\/a>, lovingly titled “8.04” because that’s how MIT rolls. The prof is Allan Adams<\/a>, who is generally a fantastic lecturer — so I’m suspecting these are really good even though I haven’t actually watched them all myself. Here’s the first lecture, “Introduction to Superposition.”<\/p>\n

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Lecture 1: Introduction to Superposition<\/div><\/div>
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