# This Quantum World/Cover

## About this book

Since 1999 I have taught an introductory course of contemporary physics
to high-school students (grades 11-12) and undergraduates at the Sri
Aurobindo International Centre of
Education
(SAICE) in Pondicherry "wikilink"),
India. The SAICE is not your typical high school or college. While the
students enjoy an exceptional freedom to choose their projects and
courses, the teachers are free to offer subjects of their own choosing
and are encouraged to explore new methods of teaching. My course is
therefore optional. It is suitable for anyone with an interest in what
contemporary physics is trying to tell us about the \"nature of
Nature.\" To students of physics it offers a perspective that is
complementary to those of many excellent textbooks.

Every year at the beginning of the new term I revise and try to improve
the material I hand out to my students. These revisions are to a
considerable extent based on student feedback. I am presently preparing
the handouts for the next term and intend to simultaneously make them
available in these pages, hoping for additional valuable feedback from
the Wikibooks community.

Postscript: I have not been able to add chapters and sections as fast as
I would have liked, but it\'s going to happen. I haven\'t given up on
this project!\--Koantum 03:05, 27 September
2007 (UTC)

