Examples of Quantum Mechanics.

[gene]

I have read somewhere that it is hard to identify the phenomeon of Quantum Mechanics. Althought i have read data about it, i still could not get the theory part. Can anyone give me examples of Quantum Mechanics happening or taking place in our daily lives or whatsoever.

 

So, from iwhat i've read, Quantum Mechanics is the internal "factory" of an atom right? i only get the very thin surface of the meaning. The rest was like me looking at rubbish, pointless.

[aman]

Quantum Mechanics deals with quanta. This means there is a limit to each piece of reality to a certain size, a quanta. It is dividing reality into the smallest measurable quantities of energy.

This amount of energy that has this effect is a quark, electron, photon, etc. Anything less we cannot measure but that which we can measure has predictable effects. That is Quantum Mechanics as I have learned it.

Just aman

[gene]

aman said in post #2 :

Quantum Mechanics deals with quanta. This means there is a limit to each piece of reality to a certain size, a quanta

Just aman

 

What do you mean by "to each a piece of reality" ???

 

So are you trying to say that Quantum Mechanics is unpredictable???

 

By the way, what is the relation of his mechanics to General Relativity???

[YT2095]

you need look no furter than the CRT monitor your reading this on, to see an example of quantum mechanics

[gene]

huh?

 

CRT monitor?

[YT2095]

Cathode Ray Tube, the big glass tube attatched to your monitor or TV screen. with the electron guns at the back

[gene]

but hoe does that explain Quantum Mechanics?

[YT2095]

it doesn`t, it`s an example of a QM principal, the removal and acceleration of electrons

 

You said "Can anyone give me examples of Quantum Mechanics happening or taking place in our daily lives or whatsoever."

 

and so I did

 

I could well have said a Microwave oven or hospital X-Ray machine, but a CRT was closer at the time

[mam"MATT"us]

Spectral lines are a pretty easy to see example

[elfin vampire]

"Discrete quantities of energy." Quanta.

 

Integral to the basis of the conceptualisation is that tiny quantifications of electrical charge (ie. an electron, a photon) maintain a barely discernable however compositional amount of mass. These subatomic particles comprise atoms.

Quantum mechanics describes the manner in which these particles interact, which is corroberative with observation in nature.

An excellent example is the deciphering of the interior processes of stars. Predictions consistent with Quantum mechanics match spectral analysis of our sun and tell us what is happening subatomically, corroberatively with that which we observe.

 

Quantum theory also assisted in providing a framework in which Special Relativity could be easily envisioned outside of the contemporary, popular physics theorum of the time with its inception of "light photons" as opposed to "radiation waveforms" still maintained within spheres of engineering today.