Quantum physics content topics (O: present, –: not present, N: newly adopted in the recent revision, *German astrophysics focus minor).
| QP topic | Germany | Korea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minor | Major | Physics | EMQ | AP | |
| 1. Blackbody radiation | – | – | – | – | N |
| 2. Bohr atomic model | N* | N | O | N | O |
| 3. Discrete energy levels in atoms (line spectra) | N* | N | O | – | O |
| 4. Interactions between light and matter | O* | O | – | O | N |
| 5. Wave-particle duality and/or complementarity | O | O | O | N | O |
| 6. Matter waves, quantitative (de Broglie wavelength) | O* | O | – | O | O |
| 7. Technological applications | – | – | O | O | O |
| 8. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle | – | O | – | O | O |
| 9. Probabilistic or statistical nature | O | O | – | O | – |
| 10. Philosophical consequences | N | N | – | – | – |
| 11. One-dimensional model or potential well | – | N | – | – | O |
| 12. Tunneling | – | – | – | N | – |
| 13. Atomic orbital model | N | N | – | – | – |
| 14. Pauli exclusion principle | – | N | – | – | – |
| 15. Entanglement | N | N | – | – | – |
| 16. Schrödinger equation | – | – | – | – | N |
| 17. Calculations of detection probability | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total (newly added) | 9(5) | 12(7) | 4 | 8(3) | 10(3) |