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Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Art: Italian illuminator, Boethius initial consolation philosophy, 1385 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Edward Hall
- Term
- Spring 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 44 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.111 Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Spring 2005, Prof. Edward Hall — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
9 files
- Overview of Some Odd Phenomena Lecture 1 Download
- Lecture 2 Download
- Lecture 3 Download
- Overview of Some Odd Phenomena (cont.) Lecture 4 Download
- The Mathematical Formalism and Its Orthodox Interpretation Lecture 5 Download
- Lecture 6 Download
- The Mathematical Formalism and Its Orthodox Interpretation (cont.) Lecture 7 Download
- Lecture 8 Download
- The Measurement Problem and Attempted Solutions Lecture 9 Download
Assignments
18 files
- Assignment 1 Download
- Assignment 2 Download
- Assignment 3 Download
- Assignment 4 Download
- Assignment 5 Download
- Assignment 6 Download
- Assignment 7 Download
- Assignment 8 Download
- Assignment 9 Download
- Assignment 10 Download
- Assignment 11 Download
- Assignment 12 Download
- Handouts Handout 1: The two-path experiment Download
- Handout 2: Bell’s Inequalities Download
- Handout 3: Derivation of the Turbo Bell’s Inequality (less formally known as the Clauser-Horne-Holt-Shimony inequality) Download
- Handout 4: Vector spaces and the statistical algorithm Download
- Handout 5: The statistical algorithm refined, the uncertainty principle, Schrödinger’s Equation, states of multi-particle systems Download
- Handout 6: Basic number theory stuff, used in Shor’s algorithm for quantum-computing the factors of an integer Download
Other materials from this course
17 files
- Assignment #1: The two-path experiment (assignment1.pdf) Download
- Assignment #2: Bell?s Inequalities (assignment2.pdf) Download
- Assignment #3: Bell?s Inequalities and spin measurements (assignment3.pdf) Download
- Assignment #4: The quantum mechanical representation of states (assignment4.pdf) Download
- First lecture (lecture_1.pdf) Download
- Second lecture (lecture_2.pdf) Download
- Third lecture (lecture_3.pdf) Download
- Fifth lecture (lecture_5.pdf) Download
- Sixth lecture (lecture_6.pdf) Download
- Seventh lecture (lecture_7.pdf) Download
- Eighth lecture (lecture_8.pdf) Download
- Eleventh lecture (lecture_11.pdf) Download
- Handout #1: The two-path experiment and Bell?s Inequalities (qmhandout1.pdf) Download
- Handout #2: Derivation of the Turbo Bell?s Inequality (qmhandout2.pdf) Download
- Handout #3: Vector spaces and the statistical algorithm (qmhandout3.pdf) Download
- quantum_syllabus.pdf Download
- quantum_syllabus.pdf Download
Course outline
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Edward Hall, 24.111 Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Spring 2005.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2005 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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