The Scientific Odyssey Episode 2.15: The Mathematical Atom: Part #1
Apr 5, 2015
Delving into the crisis in atomic physics, Louis de Broglie's wave-particle duality of electrons, the matrix mechanics of Werner Heisenberg, and the revolutionary departure from classical views on the atom by Bohr and Heisenberg.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
The Growing Crisis in a Scientific Program and the Search for Resolution
02:43 • 3min
Exploring the Wave-Particle Duality of Electrons
06:09 • 3min
Exploring the Wave Behavior of Electrons in Atomic Structure
08:43 • 4min
Redefining the Atom: Bohr and Heisenberg's Departure from Classical Views
12:33 • 20min