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10-11-2004 06:27 PM #1Member
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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?
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10-11-2004 07:07 PM #2Member Achievements:
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10-11-2004 07:34 PM #3Generic lucid dreamer
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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.
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10-11-2004 07:42 PM #4moderator emeritus
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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.
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10-11-2004 08:21 PM #5Member
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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.
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10-11-2004 08:33 PM #6Member
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Nah, it's absolutely nowhere in our cirrrururuculkum.
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10-11-2004 10:35 PM #7Member
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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...
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10-11-2004 11:15 PM #8Party Pooper
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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...
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10-12-2004 01:08 AM #9
the highest classes we have are like advance placement chemistry, honors claclulus
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10-12-2004 01:25 AM #10Member
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Same.Originally posted by docthory
the highest classes we have are like advance placement chemistry, honors claclulus
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10-12-2004 05:43 AM #11Member
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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?
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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).
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erm, I'm working on physics homework dealing with that now...
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