1. Introduction to Atomic Physics

MIT 8.422 Atomic and Optical Physics II, Spring 2013
Instructor: Wolfgang Ketterle

This lecture provides a general overview of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

[vicarious]

WOW Wolfgang Ketterle himself !!! I am definitely watching this lecture series.

[momhn]

Oh, Wolfgang Ketterle!

How awesome it is when your professor is a Nobel Prize laureate!

[lexmatthewtheurbanavenger]

As a man of science I find that very appealing

[RajKumar-etgk]

I was in a superposition of "AMO Physics" and "Aim of Physics". Nice lecture btw.

[heliogabriel]

In Brazil "AMO" means "I LOVE"
So AMO Physics looks like "I love Physics" Lol

[focuswithme]

İ like the way he explaining quantum that is seems very difficult to understand by Thank you professor ♥️♥️♥️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Wahrscheinlichkeit]

Thank You MIT!
Another Super lecture !

[leonardmalinowski]

Cosmic scale radioactive decay:
Scalativity - "The New Scientific Paradigm" Episode 1 - Fractal Big Bang Theory
Scalativity - "The New Scientific Paradigm" Episode 2 - CMBR Emitted Locally 3 Kelvin
Scalativity - "The New Scientific Paradigm" Episode 3 - Solar System was a Cosmic Scale Neutron
Scalativity - "The Scientific Paradigm" Episode 4 - SS travelling within CS-UO2 Crystals

[frankfahrenheit]

Giving appetizers at the first lecture: really good idea, I wish I had that  during my own studies. 
I was astonished  to see no questions  came  up.

My questions are:  omg,  I have  forgotten it. Should have asked  right away.
Are these students  so smart  that they do not need to ask, did  they read the coursebook in advance? 

Must be really cool  to get an answer from a Nobel Laureate.

[chowpuppy]

When atomic physicists eat at a seafood restaurant, what do they like to order?

[scwfan]

I hate, being German myself, to listen to other Germans speaking English :D

[samsalazar]

I'm 10 I want to be a nuclear physicist

[joon]

Where can I find his lecture notes? From second lectures, it contains quite many equations.

[katycasata]

Professor's great.
Ugh, but I miss the railroad chalks! 

[vahagntumanyan]

Hello,

I'd like to know at whether this course was for graduate or undergraduate students. And if the latter is the case, what course and what background is required in order to take the course?

[aplegendkiller]

I feel bad for the students who have to try and make sense of the professor's notes. I'm having a hard time trying to read it. 

[davidwilkie]

There is no new news, only new angles, so Conception of real-time Perspective Actuality is omnidirectional-dimensional logarithmic condensation wave-packaging formation, simultaneous inside-outside micro-macro Spinfoam bubble-modes in QM-TIME Totality.
The landscape of Totality is a resonance "chamber" of sync-duration, Mathematical identification of elemental e-Pi-i spin phase-locked states of reciprocals.., an idea visible in the Camera Obscura and Newtonian Optical Fluxions experience.

Totality of a Spinfoam functional unity Fluxion Image condensation modulation cause-effect is here-now-forever/Singularity vanishing point positioning Timing-spacing existence.
A conceptual Math-Physics/Calculus framework for vertices in vortices manifestation of wave-particle sum-of-all-histories wave-packaging, and as the consequence, an indescribably complicated and messy AM-FMODULES of communication.

[nelsonjames]

Is this MIT means medical imaging technology

[AsratMengesha]

Very good presentation: Q: Is it possible to get 10 kg/or 10 grams of oxygen matterial please? I am asking for that oxygen matteral because it is written in particle physics books that each atom of oxygen atom contains some physical mass. That means massive objects are accumulate able into a container. right? so please send me a 10 kilogram or 1 ram oxygen. So, that I can prove existence of Oxyen mathematically or logically. otherwise all parts of the physics are a lie. right?thanks. thanks.

[CHURINDOK]

Robert Sapolsky should be giving this lecture.