Speaker
James Freericks
Description
In 1925, quantum mechanics was discovered by Heisenberg in the form of matrix mechanics, which was quickly superseded by Schrödinger’s wave mechanics in 1926. The former worked in an energy eigenspace representation, while the latter predominately in a position-space representation. There is a third way to formulate quantum mechanics in a representation-independent fashion, that I call operator mechanics. In this talk, I will describe how operator mechanics works and show how to teach quantum mechanics this way. The work I discuss is summarized in a forthcoming book called Quantum Mechanics Done Right from Springer-Nature.
| Education level | Age over 18 (excluding teacher education) |
|---|---|
| Physics topic | Quantum mechanics |
| Research focus | Innovative instructional strategies and pathways |
| Research method | Educational design research (Qualitative research) |
| Organizing preference criteria | Track |
