- Title Information
- Title
- Deductive introduction to quantum principles through resonance-focused chemistry
laboratory
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Pirozzi, Ileana
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- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Wang, Li-Qiong
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- advisor
- affiliation
- Brown University. Department of Chemistry
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Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award
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- research program
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- posters
- Origin Information
- Place
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- Providence
- Publisher
- Brown University
- Date Created
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- 2015-08-07
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 poster
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Communicating the principles of quantum mechanics to underclassmen can be a
particularly difficult objective. However, laboratory demonstrations of quantum principles
can greatly enhance young scientists' capacity to understand such concepts. Through this
UTRA, we designed and developed a new underclassmen laboratory with the aim of providing
hands-on learning of quantum mechanics, in order to allow the students to better relate to
these concepts, which are usually left very abstract. Through this laboratory, students are
first led to investigate resonance and standing waves at macroscopic level via mechanical
vibration of membranes subject to varying boundary conditions. Then, they are exposed to the
wave mechanics at mesoscopic level by synthesizing silver nanoparticles and analyzing how
their plasmon frequencies change with size and shape of the nanoparticle. Through this
practical macroscopic and mesoscopic level demonstration of wave mechanics, students obtain
an intuition that opens the road to further questions in the realm of quantum mechanical
aspects of chemistry.
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Quantum theory
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- Topic
- Nanoparticles
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- Topic
- Spectrum analysis
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- Topic
- Boundary value problems
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/8sec-g658