Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Understanding waves and quantum mechanics opens doors to a huge spectrum of physics problems through ideas such as diffraction and quantum tunnelling. We will perform experiments to understand how the properties of the electromagnetic spectrum enabled us to discover the structure of DNA alongside mathematical and conceptual explanations of quantum mechanics. Taught in the Cavendish Laboratory (2.2km, c.30 mins walk, or c.20mins bus). Requires a knowledge
of differential calculus and some integral calculus as well as fluency in high school level algebra and geometry.
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