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Quantum Mechanics: Methods and Meanings

Quantum Mechanics: Methods and Meanings

Munley, Frank

Paperback

General Mathematics

ISBN10: 1478794593
ISBN13: 9781478794592
Publisher: Outskirts Pr
Published: Apr 5 2018
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.56
Height: 0.84 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This introduction to quantum mechanics attempts to stick to reality-based interpretations to the extent possible. The preface presents the author's philosophy of physics, which is essentially a call for eclecticism and a realization of the nature and limits of physical concepts and theories.

Chapter 1 starts with a review of the pre-1925 quantum achievements of Planck, Bohr, and Sommerfeld, including Einstein's discovery, well before wave mechanics came on the scene in 1925, of the photon concept and its implication of wave-particle duality. The more straightforward consequences of wave mechanics are then covered. Chapter 2 further develops ideas of wave mechanics, and presents the Schrödinger equation with a number of simple applications. The chapter puts appropriate emphasis on the nature of the quantum state and the importance of state preparation, and concludes with a review of quantum interpretations from 1925 up to the present. Chapters 1 and 2 alone can serve as a lower-level introduction to the subject.

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