Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

So this is a very exciting day for me because today

we're gonna start quantum mechanics, and that's all we'll do

till the end of the term.

Now, I got

bad news and good news.

The bad news

is that

it's a subject that's kind of hard to follow intuitively,

and the good news is that nobody can follow it intuitively.

Uh, Richard Feynman, one of the big, uh,

figures in physics, used to say, "No one understands quantum mechanics."

So in some sense, the pressure is off for you guys because I

don't get it, and you don't get it, and Feynman doesn't get it.

The point is,

here's my goal.

Right now, I'm the only one who doesn't understand

quantum mechanics.

In about seven days,

all of you will be unable to understand quantum mechanics.

Then you can go back and spread your ignorance, uh,

everywhere else, uh-