Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works Season 1 Episode 50 Introducing the Quantum
- TV-PG
- September 30, 2011
- 30 min
Begin your study of the ideas that revolutionized physics at the atomic scale: quantum theory. The word quantum comes from Max Planck's proposal in 1900 that the atomic vibrations that produce light must be quantized: that is, they occur only with certain discrete energies.
