January 2013
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
6h 6m
English
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Table of Contents
Part I: Small World, Huh? Essential Quantum Physics
Part II: Bound and Undetermined: Handling Particles in Bound States
Part III: Turning to Angular Momentum and Spin
Part IV: Multiple Dimensions: Going 3D with Quantum Physics
Part V: Group Dynamics: Introducing Multiple Particles
Part I: Small World, Huh? Essential Quantum Physics
Chapter 1: Discoveries and Essential Quantum Physics
Being Discrete: The Trouble with Black-Body Radiation
Second attempt: Rayleigh-Jeans Law
An intuitive (quantum) leap: Max Planck's spectrum
The First Pieces: Seeing Light as Particles
Solving the photoelectric effect
Scattering light off electrons: The Compton effect
Proof positron? Dirac and pair production
A Dual Identity: Looking at Particles as Waves
You Can't Know Everything (But You Can Figure the Odds)
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Rolling the dice: Quantum physics and probability
Chapter 2: Entering the Matrix: Welcome to State Vectors
Creating Your Own Vectors in Hilbert Space
Making Life Easier with Dirac Notation
Abbreviating state vectors as kets
Writing the Hermitian conjugate as a bra
Multiplying bras and kets: A probability of 1
Covering all your bases: Bras and kets as basis-less state vectors
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