What is Quantum Tunneling, Exactly?

Sign up to brilliant.org to receive a 20% discount with this link! https://brilliant.org/upandatom/ In this video we explore the quantum phenomenon of quantum tunneling, where an electron can tunnel through a barrier no classical object could. *Quantum Physics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1lNrW4e0G8WmWpW846oE_m92nw3rlOpz Frustrated Total Internal Reflection Demo: https://youtu.be/aC-4iSD2aRA Hi! I'm Jade. Subscribe to Up and Atom for new physics, math and computer science videos every two weeks! *SUBSCRIBE TO UP AND ATOM* https://www.youtube.com/c/upandatom Visit the Up and Atom Store https://store.nebula.app/collections/up-and-atom *Follow me* @upndatom Up and Atom on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upndatom/ Up and Atom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upndatom?lang=en A big thank you to my AMAZING PATRONS! Skully, Paul Kendra, Ofer Mustigman, Daeil Kim, Harsh Tank, Alan McNea, Daniel Tan-Holmes, Simon Mackenzie, Dag-Erling Smørgrav, Chris Flynn, Andrew Pann, Anne Tan, Joe Court, John Satchell, John Shioli, Adam Thornton, Ayan Doss, Marc Watkins, Sung-Ho Lee, Todd Loreman, Susan Jones, Jareth Arnold, Xiao Fan, Simon Barker, Shawn Patrick James Kirby, Simon Tobar, Drew Davis, Rob Harris, Dennis Haupt, David M., Ammaar Esmailjee, M.H. Beales, Doug Cowles, Stephen Veitch, Renato Pereira, Simon Dargaville, Noah McCann and Magesh. If you'd like to consider supporting Up and Atom, head over to my Patreon page :) https://www.patreon.com/upandatom For a one time donation, head over to my PayPal :) https://www.paypal.me/upandatomshows What is the Schrödinger Equation, Exactly? https://youtu.be/QeUMFo8sODk The Intuition Behind the Uncertainty Principle https://youtu.be/qwt6wUUD2QI *Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768233/pdf/COC-17-1758.pdf http://mmrc.caltech.edu/FTIR/Literature/ATR/Nature%20of%20Evanescent%20Wave%20AS%202%202013.pdf http://tediousderivations.blogspot.com/2013/08/rectangular-potential-barrier.html http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bds10/aqp/handout_1d.pdf http://mmrc.caltech.edu/FTIR/Literature/ATR/Nature%20of%20Evanescent%20Wave%20AS%202%202013.pdf https://brilliant.org/wiki/quantum-tunneling/ *Music* https://www.epidemicsound.com/