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Containing an extensive bibliography and useful appendices as well as references to original works, reviews, and biographies, the reader is well-equipped to delve further into the subject. In addition to its importance for those studying physics, it is also valuable for those studying the history of science.
Contents:
- Setting the Scene;
- Light: Aether and the Special Theory of Relativity;
- Thermal Radiation and Planck s Energy Elements ;
- Einstein and the Quantum;
- The Quantum in the Atom: Optical Spectra;
- Einstein s Transition Probabilities: Bohr's Theory and Planck's Law;
- Wave Mechanics;
- Matrix Mechanics;
- Complementarity, the Uncertainty Principle and the Copenhagen Interpretation;
- Indeterminacy and Entanglement (Sara M McMurry).
About: This book provides the reader with an explanation of the origin and establishment of quantum mechanics, with the mathematics in a digestible form, together with a descriptive survey of later developments up to the present day.
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