Author | Grometstein, Alan A. author |
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Title | The Roots of Things [electronic resource] : Topics in Quantum Mechanics / by Alan A. Grometstein |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4877-5 |
Descript | XXXV, 576 p. online resource |
1 Themes -- Appendix DIR Paul Dirac -- 2 O Light Divine -- Appendix FOU Fourier Analysis -- Appendix FRE Frequency -- Appendix MEC Mechanism -- 3 The Young Experiment (1801) -- Appendix GED Gedanken Experiments -- 4 A Whiff of Ether (1887) -- Appendix ABE Aberration -- Appendix RIT Ritz Stars -- Appendix PDX Paradox and Antinomy -- 5 Prof. Planck Is Desperate (1901) -- Appendix PLA Max Planck -- Appendix STA Standing Waves -- 6 The Photoelectric Effect (1902) -- 7 Dr. Einsteinโs Light Arrows (1905) -- 8 Young Revisited (1909) -- 9 The Nuclear Atom (1904-1912) -- Appendix SPH Spheres -- 10 Bohrโs Atom (1913-1925) -- Appendix ACC Accelerated Charges -- 11 Comptonโs Shift (1923) -- 12 A Princely Postulate (1924) -- Appendix ENE Energy of an Electron -- 13 Realism and Other Isms -- 14 Inventing the Wave Equation (1926) -- Appendix WEL Well-Behaved Waves -- Appendix CMP Completeness -- 15 Collapsing the Wave -- Appendix HEI Werner Heisenberg -- Appendix COM Commutativity -- 16 Copenhagen Takes Over (1925ยกยช?) -- Appendix BOH Niels Bohr -- 17 EPR (1935) and EPR-B -- Appendix LIT Lightcones -- Appendix PAU Wolfgang Pauli -- 18 Bellโs Thunderbolt (1964) -- 19 The Toll of Bell -- Appendix SCH Schrรถdingerโs Cat -- Appendix TIM Troublesome Time -- 20 Envoi -- References -- Name Index