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100 years of Planck's Quantum /

This invaluable book takes the reader from Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900 to the most recent interpretations and applications of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. The introduction of the quantum idea leads off the prehistory of quantum mechanics, featuring Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duck, Ian, 1933-
Otros Autores: Sudarshan, E. C. G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. ch. I. Planck invents the quantum
  • ch. II. Einstein and Compton
  • ch. III. Bohr's hydrogen atom
  • ch. IV. de Broglie waves
  • ch. V. Kramers and Heisenberg
  • pt. 2. ch. VI. Heisenberg invents quantum dynamics
  • ch. VII. Born, Heisenberg and Jordan
  • ch. VIII. Dirac's quantum mechanics
  • ch. IX. Schrodinger's wave mechanics
  • pt. 3. ch. X. Born's interpretation
  • ch. XI. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
  • ch. XII. Bohr's interpretation
  • ch. XIII. Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen
  • pt. 4. ch. XIV. Bohm and Bell, Clauser and aspect
  • ch. XV. Feynman path integral
  • ch. XVI. Hartle's interpretation
  • ch. XVII. DeWitt's wave function of the universe. Pp. 504-516
  • ch. XVIII. Deutsch's quantum computer
  • ch. XIX. The next 100 years.