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| Introduction | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Important Disclaimer and Warnings | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Light as a Wave | |
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| Newton's View: Light Consists of Particles | |
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| Young's Interference of Light | |
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| Automatic Scanning of Interference Patterns | |
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| The Final Nail in the Coffin for Newton's Theory of Light | |
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| Light as an Electromagnetic Wave | |
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| Polarization | |
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| Optics with 3-cm Wavelength "Light" | |
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| Real-World Behaviors | |
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| Double-Slit Interference with Microwaves | |
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| The Doppler Effect | |
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| Experiments and Questions | |
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| Light as Particles | |
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| The Seed of Quantum Physics: Planck's Formula | |
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| The Photoelectric Effect | |
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| Can we Detect Individual Photons? | |
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| Low-Cost PMT Power Supplies | |
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| Listening to Individual Photons | |
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| Where does this Leave Us? | |
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| Experiments and Questions | |
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| Atoms and Radioactivity | |
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| The Need for Vacuum | |
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| The Mechanical Vacuum Pump | |
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| The Vacuum Gauge | |
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| A Very-High-Voltage Power Supply | |
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| A Vacuum Tube Lego� Set | |
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| Phosphor Screens | |
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| The Electron Gun | |
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| The Discovery of the Electron | |
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| Cathode-Ray Tubes | |
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| Thomson's First 1897 Experiment-Negative Charge and Rays are Joined Together | |
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| Thomson's Second Experiment-Electrostatic Deflection of Cathode Rays | |
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| Thomson and the Modern CRT | |
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| Thomson's Third Experiment-Mass-to-Charge Ratio of the Electron | |
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| Measuring e/m with our CRT | |
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| A Magical Measurement of e/m | |
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| Thomson's "Plum Pudding" Model of the Atom | |
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| Geiger-M�ller Counter | |
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| �, �, and � | |
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| The Nature of Beta Radiation | |
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| The Ionizing Power of Alpha | |
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| What are Alpha Particles? | |
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| Rutherford's Alpha-Scattering Experiment | |
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| Rutherford's Planetary Model of the Atom | |
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| Experiments and Questions | |
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| The Principle of Quantum Physics | |
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| Emission Spectroscopy | |
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| Bohr's Spark of Genius | |
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| Orbitals and Not Orbits | |
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| Quantization-The Core of Quantum Physics | |
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| Experiments and Questions | |
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| Wave-Particle Duality | |
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| Gamma-Ray Spectrum Analysis | |
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| What is the Nature of Light? | |
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| Two-Slit Interference with Single Photons | |
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| Imaging Single Photons | |
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| The Answer: Complementarity | |
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| Matter Waves | |
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| Matter Waves and the Bohr Atom | |
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| Experimental Confirmation of De Broglie's Matter Waves | |
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| Two-Slit Interference with Single Electrons | |
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| A Simple TEM | |
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| Blurring the Line Between Quantum and Classical 148 Particle-Wave Duality in the Macroscopic World 148 Experiments and Questions | |
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| The Uncertainty Principle | |
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| Wavefunctions | |
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| The Uncertainty Principle | |
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| Experimental Demonstration of the Uncertainty Principle | |
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| Time-Energy Uncertainty | |
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| Fourier Analysis | |
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| Bye, Bye Clockwork Universe | |
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| Experiments and Questions | |
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| Schr�Dinger (And his Zombie Cat) | |
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| Real-World Particle in a Box | |
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| Quantum Tunneling | |
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| Quantum Tunneling Time | |
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| Many-Worlds Interpretation | |
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| Schr�dinger's Cat in the Lab | |
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| Beam Splitters | |
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| Who Rolls the Dice? | |
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| The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer | |
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| "Which-Way" Experiments | |
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| The Quantum Eraser | |
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| Experiments and Questions | |
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| Entanglement | |
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| Bell's Inequalities | |
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| An Entangled-Photon Source | |
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| Detecting Entangled Photons | |
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| High-Purity Single-Photon Source | |
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| Testing Bell's Inequality | |
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| Closing the Loopholes | |
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| The Age of Quantum Information | |
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| A Quantum Random-Number Generator | |
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| Quantum Information | |
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| Quantum Teleportation | |
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| Faster-Than-Light Communication | |
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| Quantum Cryptography | |
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| Quantum Computing and Technologies for the Future | |
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| Experiments and Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Sources For Materials And Components | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Index | |