Professor Vincent Holmberg is hands down the best professor I've had during my time at UW. If anyone in chemical engineering is reading this, please do yourself a favor and sign up for one of his classes.
Quantum mechanics is another very difficult class. The concepts are foreign, there is zero intuition built in the rest of your time in school or in experiencing the natural world that will help you understand quantum mechanical systems - places where everything is probabilistic and where you can, at one instance, know something for certain and simultaneous not know another - or vice versa!
Although making it sound incredibly confusing, I'd say that with some amount of effort you can get put o speed, and able to understand the language of Quantum mechanical systems. In this class we learned how to mathematically solve QM problems, but also gained valuable information and insight into how many technologies work. We spent a great deal of time discussing semiconductors and doping, concepts that led to Solar Cells, information technology like Solid state hard drives, and more! A first taste into a large division of chemical engineering, I definitely plan to pursue quantum mechanics in the future to better ready myself to understand photovoltaics.
Quantum mechanics is another very difficult class. The concepts are foreign, there is zero intuition built in the rest of your time in school or in experiencing the natural world that will help you understand quantum mechanical systems - places where everything is probabilistic and where you can, at one instance, know something for certain and simultaneous not know another - or vice versa!
Although making it sound incredibly confusing, I'd say that with some amount of effort you can get put o speed, and able to understand the language of Quantum mechanical systems. In this class we learned how to mathematically solve QM problems, but also gained valuable information and insight into how many technologies work. We spent a great deal of time discussing semiconductors and doping, concepts that led to Solar Cells, information technology like Solid state hard drives, and more! A first taste into a large division of chemical engineering, I definitely plan to pursue quantum mechanics in the future to better ready myself to understand photovoltaics.