文档介绍：Teaching quantum mechanics on an introductory level
Rainer Mu¨llera) and Hartmut Wiesnerb)
Lehrstuhl fu¨r Didaktik der Physik, University of Munich, Schellingstrasse 4, D-80799 Mu¨nchen, Germany
͑Received 25 July 2001; accepted 9 November 2001͒
We present a new research-based course on quantum mechanics in which the conceptual issues of
quantum mechanics are taught at an introductory level. In the context of virtual laboratories, the
students discover from the very beginning how quantum phenomena deviate from our classical
everyday experience. The results of the evaluation of the course show that most of the students
acquired appropriate quantum mechanical conceptions, and that many of mon
misconceptions encountered in traditional instruction have been avoided. © 2002 American Association
of Physics Teachers.
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I. INTRODUCTION cuss the foundations of quantum mechanics at a moderate
mathematical level. An example of a university course ex-
Quantum mechanics has forever changed the physicists’ plicitly devoted to nonphysics majors is the Visual Quantum
picture of the world. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Mechanics project,5 where a hands-on approach to the appli-
advent of relativity and quantum mechanics marked not only cations of quantum mechanics is pursued.
the discovery of just another new theory, but an entirel