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Physics Education

Quantum physics in school

I Lawrence

Published Sep 1, 1996• 20 citations
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Abstract

A teaching route for introducing quantum ideas into the school classroom using modern devices is presented. This has been developed by a team of academics and school-teachers and trialled once. The ideas are quantization, wave - particle duality, nonlocality and tunnelling.
DOI
10.1088/0031-9120/31/5/016

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