4 pages
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Knowledge
Classical → Quantum
Everything a classical physicist assumes about the world, and what quantum mechanics replaces each assumption with — the conceptual rupture that makes QM necessary.
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Knowledge
Superposition & the State
The formal engine of quantum mechanics: how a quantum state encodes possibilities, the measurement postulate, and spin-½ as the simplest quantum system.
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Knowledge
The Double Slit
The one experiment that contains the entire engine of quantum mechanics: probability amplitudes, interference, which-path information, and the quantum-to-classical boundary.
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Uncertainty & Complementarity
Why you cannot know everything about a quantum object, why it seems contradictory, and how non-commuting observables resolve the paradox.