Presents a detailed look at the period between 1925 and leading up to WWII, in which quantum theory was created and then quickly applied to nuclear, atomic, molecular, and solid state physics.
Presents a detailed look at the period between 1925 and leading up to WWII, in which quantum theory was created and then quickly applied to nuclear, atomic, molecular, and solid state physics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Robert D. Purrington is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Tulane University. He has been a theoretical physicist for nearly a half-century, teaching quantum mechanics at the graduate and advanced undergraduate level throughout his career.
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* ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS * PREFACE * PART I. FORBEARS * 1. "CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON": NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINS AND THE "OLD QUANTUM THEORY" * 2. 1913: THE BOHR THEORY OF THE HYDROGEN ATOM * 3. TYRANNY OF DATA: ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY TO 1925 * 4. AFTER THE WAR: QUANTUM THEORY ADRIFT; THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCPLE * PART II. THEORY * 5. AT THE CREATION: THE "NEW QUANTUM THEORY" * 6. THE ORIGINS OF WAVE MECHANICS * 7. THE END OF CERTAINTY: UNCERTAINTY AND INDETERMINISM * 8. FORMALISM, PART I. TRANSFORMATION THEORY * 9. FORMALISM, PART II. UNITARITY AND HILBERT SPACE * 10. INTRINISC SPIN, THE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE, AND STATISTICS * 11. ANGULAR MOMENTUM, SYMMETRIES, AND CONSERVATION LAWS * 12. SCATTERING AND REACTION THEORY * 13. RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY TO 1940: THE RISE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS * 14. FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: INTERPRETATION AND THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM * PART III. APPLICATIONS: ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS * 15. NUCLEAR PHYSICS: THE FIRST THREE DECADES * 16. QUANTUM THEORY AND THE BIRTH OF STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS * 17. ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS * 18. CONDENSED MATTER: SOLIDS AND QUANTUM LIQUIDS * 19. EPILOGUE * PART IV * APPENDIX. HEISENBERG'S ARGUMENT
* ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS * PREFACE * PART I. FORBEARS * 1. "CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON": NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINS AND THE "OLD QUANTUM THEORY" * 2. 1913: THE BOHR THEORY OF THE HYDROGEN ATOM * 3. TYRANNY OF DATA: ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY TO 1925 * 4. AFTER THE WAR: QUANTUM THEORY ADRIFT; THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCPLE * PART II. THEORY * 5. AT THE CREATION: THE "NEW QUANTUM THEORY" * 6. THE ORIGINS OF WAVE MECHANICS * 7. THE END OF CERTAINTY: UNCERTAINTY AND INDETERMINISM * 8. FORMALISM, PART I. TRANSFORMATION THEORY * 9. FORMALISM, PART II. UNITARITY AND HILBERT SPACE * 10. INTRINISC SPIN, THE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE, AND STATISTICS * 11. ANGULAR MOMENTUM, SYMMETRIES, AND CONSERVATION LAWS * 12. SCATTERING AND REACTION THEORY * 13. RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY TO 1940: THE RISE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS * 14. FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: INTERPRETATION AND THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM * PART III. APPLICATIONS: ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS * 15. NUCLEAR PHYSICS: THE FIRST THREE DECADES * 16. QUANTUM THEORY AND THE BIRTH OF STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS * 17. ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS * 18. CONDENSED MATTER: SOLIDS AND QUANTUM LIQUIDS * 19. EPILOGUE * PART IV * APPENDIX. HEISENBERG'S ARGUMENT
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