EXPLORING QUANTUM PHYSICS THROUGH HANDS-ON PROJECTS -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Important Disclaimer and Warnings -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- 1 LIGHT AS AWAVE -- Newton's View: Light Consists of Particles -- Young's Interference of Light -- Automatic Scanning of Interference Patterns -- The Final Nail in the Coffin for Newton's Theory of Light -- Light as an Electromagnetic Wave -- Polarization -- Optics with 3-cm Wavelength "Light" -- Real-World Behaviors -- Double-Slit Interference with Microwaves -- The Doppler Effect -- Experiments and Questions -- 2 LIGHT AS PARTICLES -- The Seed of Quantum Physics: Planck's Formula -- The Photoelectric Effect -- Can we Detect Individual Photons? -- Low-Cost PMT Power Supplies -- Listening to Individual Photons -- Where does this Leave Us? -- Experiments and Questions -- 3 ATOMS AND RADIOACTIVITY -- The Need for Vacuum -- The Mechanical Vacuum Pump -- The Vacuum Gauge -- A Very-High-Voltage Power Supply -- A Vacuum Tube Lego® Set -- Phosphor Screens -- The Electron Gun -- The Discovery of the Electron -- Cathode-Ray Tubes -- Thomson's First 1897 Experiment-Negative Charge and Rays are Joined Together -- Thomson's Second Experiment-Electrostatic Deflection of Cathode Rays -- Thomson and the Modern CRT -- Thomson's Third Experiment-Mass-to-Charge Ratio of the Electron -- Measuring e/m with our CRT -- A Magical Measurement of e/m -- Thomson's "Plum Pudding" Model of the Atom -- Geiger-Müller Counter -- α, β, and γ -- The Nature of Beta Radiation -- The Ionizing Power of Alpha -- What are Alpha Particles? -- Rutherford's Alpha-Scattering Experiment -- Rutherford's Planetary Model of the Atom -- Experiments and Questions -- 4 THE PRINCIPLE OF QUANTUM PHYSICS -- Emission Spectroscopy -- Bohr's Spark of Genius -- Orbitals and Not Orbits -- Quantization-The Core of Quantum Physics.

Experiments and Questions -- 5 WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY -- Gamma-Ray Spectrum Analysis -- What is the Nature of Light? -- Two-Slit Interference with Single Photons -- Imaging Single Photons -- The Answer: Complementarity -- Matter Waves -- Matter Waves and the Bohr Atom -- Experimental Confirmation of De Broglie's Matter Waves -- Two-Slit Interference with Single Electrons -- A Simple TEM -- Blurring the Line Between Quantum and Classical -- Particle-Wave Duality in the Macroscopic World -- Experiments and Questions -- 6 THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE -- Wavefunctions -- The Uncertainty Principle -- Experimental Demonstration of the Uncertainty Principle -- Time-Energy Uncertainty -- Fourier Analysis -- Bye, Bye Clockwork Universe -- Experiments and Questions -- 7 SCHRÖDINGER (AND HIS ZOMBIE CAT) -- Real-World Particle in a Box -- Quantum Tunneling -- Quantum Tunneling Time -- Many-Worlds Interpretation -- Schrödinger's Cat in the Lab -- Beam Splitters -- Who Rolls the Dice? -- The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer -- "Which-Way" Experiments -- The Quantum Eraser -- Experiments and Questions -- 8 ENTANGLEMENT -- Bell's Inequalities -- An Entangled-Photon Source -- Detecting Entangled Photons -- High-Purity Single-Photon Source -- Testing Bell's Inequality -- Closing the Loopholes -- The Age of Quantum Information -- A Quantum Random-Number Generator -- Quantum Information -- Quantum Teleportation -- Faster-Than-Light Communication -- Quantum Cryptography -- Quantum Computing and Technologies for the Future -- Experiments and Questions -- REFERENCES -- SOURCES FOR MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INDEX.