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Quantum Reflections is a project from Münster University, Germany, in cooperation with a team of outstanding design artists. After two years of intense work, many new visualizations for atomic physics have been developed, starting with visualizations of standing waves in one, two, and three dimensions, then introducing quantum physics in simple geometric pictures of nodal points, nodal lines, and nodal planes of the electrons’ wave function. All visualizations are mathematically sound and culminate in brand new visualization of the periodic table of elements as a “quantum organ.” Since complex mathematics is substituted by high-quality animations, even high school students can access complicated and important topics such as the geometric meaning of the Pauli principle or the selection rules, just to mention two examples.
Readers of The Physics Teacher are invited to get access to the beta version of the project and share it with their students before publication to...