Student Lectures - All lectures - Quantum Theory - the Born Interpretation: Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture

Here is the latest lecture in the series of undergraduate lectures that we are making available to give an insight in to life in Oxford Mathematics. This lecture from James Sparks is taken from his Second Year Quantum Theory course. So far in the course we've met the Schrodinger equation for a quantum particle's wave function and solved it in a simple example, namely a particle confined to a box. Schrodinger himself wasn't sure what the physical meaning of the wave function was when he wrote down his equation. In this section we describe Born's probabilistic interpretation, and look at some example calculations. All first and second year lectures are followed by tutorials where students meet their tutor to go through the lecture and associated problem sheet and to talk and think more about the maths. Third and fourth year lectures are followed by classes. You can watch a second lecture from this course (on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0-HcAtU5U You can watch many other student lectures via our main Student Lectures playlist (also check out specific student lectures playlists): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4d5ZtfQonW0A4VHeiY0gSkX1QEraaacE