Understanding the Quantum World
Season 1
Ep 9. Interference of Waves and Sloshing States
- TV-PG
- March 29, 2019
- 29 min
Watch what happens when electrons are put into wave forms that differ from standing waves. Your goal is to understand why some of these superposition states are unstable. Professor Carlson notes that the sloshing of an electron back and forth in an unstable state causes it to act like an antenna, radiating away energy until it falls to a lower energy level.