Inledningsvis identifieras de mål i kursplanen för fysik B på gymnasieskolan som har kvantmekaniskt innehåll. Syftet med detta arbete är att genom en textanalys utifrån dessa identifierade kursmål, beskriva hur fem gymnasieläroböcker i fysik B tar upp de utvalda målbeskrivningarna. När det gäller hur atomers struktur presenteras, saknar en av böckerna en modern kvantmekanisk beskrivning och tre böcker ger ingen modern kvantmekanisk beskrivning av elektronernas positioner i en atom. Problem med hur spinn ska beskrivas finns överlag i alla böckerna. Alla läroböckerna förankrar sin framställning om sambandet mellan energinivåer och atomspektra i Bohrs atommodell.

This paper aims to describe and elaborate on a recent discursive change within the new-age movement. Since the seventies and the publishing of speculative popular science books like The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra and The self-aware Universe by Amit Goswami, the idea that quantum physics resonates with spirituality has become the topic of hundreds of books and movies.The quantum-spiritual discourse has three distinct ways to approach quantum physics in its discussion on spirituality: The parallelistic approach which emphasizes the similarities between eastern philosophies and modern physics, the monistic-idealistic approach which tells us that mind is the foundation of matter and the scientific spiritual approach which tries to explain spiritual claims scientifically. In the quantum-spiritual discourse, quantum physical phenomena (e.g. non-locality and entanglement) are being called upon to validate metaphysical statements. The primary assumption of the discourse is that the shift of paradigm due to the establishment of modern physics also is a shift of paradigm of spirituality.With the object to examine the common claims made in the discourse, cross-references between spiritual arguments and facts of quantum physics are being made.