Photos from the Visual Quantum Mechanics workshop:

The LED apparatus. You can make your own using a breadboard or

purchase this version through Ztec Co

 

The voltmeter is used to determine the turn on voltage of the LED.

Relating the turn on voltage to the emitted light frequencies produces a linear

graph whose slope is Planck's constant.

One computer simulation allows students to try different methods of modeling

the energy levels of a material that would produce the spectra observed in the lab.

Other simulations allow students to connect between the double-slit diffraction

experiment and the wave nature of matter.

 

How an infrared detector works was explored by observing its behavior when

exposed to ultraviolet and infrared radiation.

 

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