Quantum Computing Part 3: Quantum Physics Vocabulary

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This is part three of what is quantum computing. Now to break this down into easily digestible parts, we need to take a few steps back and define some words. Let us start with particle, which means a portion of matter or the smallest possible amount. Now let's define quantum. And the word itself stems from Latin, meaning quantity, amount of, or portion of something. So in physics, the simplest way to describe it is any tiny increments in which forms of energy are divided into smaller particles. Quantum mechanics is a science dealing with matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale. It attempts to describe molecules and atoms' behavior and their constituents' properties such as electrons, protons, and neutrons. We'll describe quantum properties such as entanglement in our next video. So like and follow for more.