High school quantum mechanics and quantum physics?

It is not all that long ago that I was in high school and the word quantum was no where in the curriculum. But I was flipping through the TV the other night and came across some show taking place in a high school science class where they were being taught quantum physics. I realize TV is just TV and only sometimes loosely based on the real world; however, for those of you here currently in high school, I am wondering if they have begun to teach quantum mechanics and/or quantum physics in your high school?

Nope. Not in any public schools I know of at least. And that's kinda of in-depth for high schoolers who probably don't know what they're going to do with their lives yet.

I wonder though if some of the high school physics classes touch on it a little. What were they discussing? Was it the Ultra-violet gap and the Planck constant, or something more advanced? As for myself, I didn't get any quantum physics until my second semester physics class in college.

i wish they would have. all studies on quantum physics were done outside of class and on one's own time. it's a very interesting proposition but i imagine that it would have the same stigma that evolution had/still has in the class room.

We had some in our second physics class (if high school is what I think it is...) but nothing advanced. Just a bit about Planck's constant and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

Nah, it's absolutely nowhere in our cirrrururuculkum.

nope, the most advanced class we have where im at for that sorta stuff is just plain Physics, and its not even that advanced from what I hear...

In all of the physics classes at my high school we only briefly touched on the theory of relativity, let alone quantum physics. They mentioned it a few times in the text book, but always in a very mistified way. They act as if no one in a high school setting has the capability to understand it...
Regardless, I've picked up the study of it in my spare time. Very interesting stuff, no?

the highest classes we have are like advance placement chemistry, honors claclulus

Quote:

---

Originally posted by docthory
the highest classes we have are like advance placement chemistry, honors claclulus

---

Same.

i wrote a paper my senior year in highschool about the implications of string theory and multiple dimensions on the field of psycology, but it wasnt exactly taught. teachers are open to the idea and if students bring it up then i am sure it will be elaborated on but i do not think it is in the curriculum for any highschools except maybe some really expensive private schools, you can buy anything so why not a highschool education in quantum physics?

I've been out of high-school for over eight years, but I'm pretty sure we at least touched on quantum--not the math or anything, but just talked about the cat-in-the-box and the quantum model of the atom (pro'lly took up 15 minutes of class time, but it WAS mentioned).

erm, I'm working on physics homework dealing with that now...