The weirdness of quantisation. Wave-particle duality and a connection to standing waves
Constancy of light speed in any frame of reference. How this leads to special relativity: time dilation and length contraction
Lorentz Transformations and Velocity Transformations. Speed of light as a speed limit. The twin paradox.
Momentum and kinetic energy in special relativity. The energy-mass and energy-momentum relations and the momentum of a photon
The mathematics of waves. The wave equation. Superposition and standing waves.
The de Broglie equation. Wavepackets and particles. The uncertainty principle. Why atoms don't collapse.
Construction of the Schrödinger equation. Solutions for the particle in a box and exploration of what we learn from them.