The Strange World Of Quantum Mechanics
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The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics
Author: Daniel F. Styer
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2000-02-24
An exceptionally accessible, accurate and non-technical introduction to the core concepts of quantum mechanics.
Visual Quantum Mechanics
Author: Bernd Thaller
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2000-06-22
"Visual Quantum Mechanics" uses the computer-generated animations found on the accompanying material on Springer Extras to introduce, motivate, and illustrate the concepts explained in the book. While there are other books on the market that use Mathematica or Maple to teach quantum mechanics, this book differs in that the text describes the mathematical and physical ideas of quantum mechanics in the conventional manner. There is no special emphasis on computational physics or requirement that the reader know a symbolic computation package. Despite the presentation of rather advanced topics, the book requires only calculus, making complicated results more comprehensible via visualization. The material on Springer Extras provides easy access to more than 300 digital movies, animated illustrations, and interactive pictures. This book along with its extra online materials forms a complete introductory course on spinless particles in one and two dimensions.
Six Impossible Things
“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interested in the strange world of quantum physics (Forbes) Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a commonsense explanation of what is going on. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. Gribbin presents: • The Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg • The Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie • The Many Worlds Interpretation • The Decoherence Interpretation • The Ensemble “Non-Interpretation” • The Timeless Transactional Interpretation, which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are more crazy than others—but in the quantum world, being more crazy does not necessarily mean more wrong.