Some Favorites on QM
Intro to
Quantum Mechanics by Todd
apparently by the same
Todd
Stedl at the University of Washington
writes, "In 1690 Christian Huygens theorized that light was
composed of waves, while in 1704 Isaac Newton explained that
light was made of tiny particles.
Many nice pictures and good descriptions such as:
The Heisenberg
uncertainty principle
It's like rolling the cue ball across
a billiard table and trying to discover where it is going by
bouncing the 8-ball off of it; by making the measurement with the
8-ball you have certainly altered the course of the cue ball. You
may have discovered where the cue ball was, but now have no idea of
where it is going (because you were measuring with the 8-ball
instead of actually looking at the table).

Other sites to explore
is Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the
The
Uncertainty Principle
Woops! I found a beautiful applet out of Oxford illustrates Heisenberg's
(position-momentum) Uncertainty Principle in quantum mechanics
with the following
Google Search.
Ah!
Here it is.
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