Absolutely small : how quantum theory explains our everyday world /
This book makes the field of quantum theory understandable to nonscientists, without oversimplifying and without bogging down in complicated math. It uses clear explanations, real-world examples, and diagrams instead of dense equations to help you understand.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
AMACOM, American Management Association,
[2010]
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Online Access: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Table of Contents:
- Schrödinger's cat
- Size is absolute
- Some things about waves
- The photoelectric effect and Einstein's explanation
- Light: waves or particles?
- How big is a photon and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- Photons, electrons, and baseballs
- Quantum racquetball and the color of fruit
- The hydrogen atom: the history
- The hydrogen atom: quantum theory
- Many electron atoms and the periodic table of elements
- The hydrogen molecule and the covalent bond
- What holds atoms together
- diatomic molecules
- Bigger molecules: the shapes of polyatomic molecules
- Beer and soap
- Fat, it's all about the double bonds
- Green house gases
- Aromatic molecules
- Metals, insulators, and semiconductors
- Think quantum.