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~Chapters~
00:00 Where does the Schrödinger Equation come from?
00:51 The hydrogen spectrum & crisis in classical physics
03:36 Birth of quantum mechanics
08:08 Where is the wave equation?
12:14 Building our first quantum wave
17:07 Building the kinetic energy operator
20:57 The heat obsessed mathematical genius
24:40 The problem with real numbers!
29:30 Where does ‘i’ come from?
34:00 The energy operator & the Schrödinger equation
36:47 Why does it resemble the heat equation (except the i)
38:41 A Nobel prize winning footnote (by Max Born)
43:12 The real world brought to you by the imaginary number (The end)



Let’s build the Schrödinger’s equation intuitively, from scratch. We will also answer why the equation with such real world impact has to be built from an imaginary number.



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