I have basically no physics education, but I was educated in the US. In my high school, where I took an ordinary, low-quality physics course (the one for weak students that didn't require calculus), the introduction of quantum mechanics was motivated by the photoelectric effect. Now, like I said, I don't really have any physics education and I don't really understand the photoelectric effect _or_ quantum mechanics, but my basic recollection was waves hands you shine a light on certain materials and electrons pop out, and it looks for various reasons like this behavior is packet-y rather than smooth as one might expect.
Basically in an intro American physics class, if they've got an opportunity to get Einstein involved, they're gonna take it.
I've never heard of this myth either.
FWIW, the authors, Nils-Erik Bomark and Reidun Renstrøm, also appear to work at .no universities.
I have basically no physics education, but I was educated in the US. In my high school, where I took an ordinary, low-quality physics course (the one for weak students that didn't require calculus), the introduction of quantum mechanics was motivated by the photoelectric effect. Now, like I said, I don't really have any physics education and I don't really understand the photoelectric effect _or_ quantum mechanics, but my basic recollection was waves hands you shine a light on certain materials and electrons pop out, and it looks for various reasons like this behavior is packet-y rather than smooth as one might expect.
Basically in an intro American physics class, if they've got an opportunity to get Einstein involved, they're gonna take it.
I've never heard of this myth either.
FWIW, the authors, Nils-Erik Bomark and Reidun Renstrøm, also appear to work at .no universities.