A Development of Quantum Mechanics

Based on Symmetry Considerations

G.H. Duffey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

356 Seiten

2011
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-8800-8 (ISBN)

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The theory of quantum mechanics continues to appear arbitrary and abstruse to new students; and to many veterans, it has become acceptable and useable only because it is familiar. Yet, this theory is at the basis of all modern physics, chem istry, and engineering, describing, as it does, the behavior of the submicroscopic particles making up all matter. So it needs to be presented more effectively to a diverse audience. The primary question is, I believe, 'What can be considered self-evident?' Indeed, what do certain key experiments reveal about the workings of nature? How can we consider that some probabilities are not a result of our ignorance, but instead, fundamental properties? We must pay particular attention to the subject of what we can do, what we cannot do, and what we can and cannot observe. We can prepare a homogeneous beam of almost independent particles by boiling electrons out of a metal and accelerating them by a given potential drop. We cannot follow an electron in dividually in the beam without introducing conditions that destroy the beam's homogeneity, but we can detennine when electrons arrive at a given position.

1 / Quantization of Translatory Motion.- 2 / Quantization of Rotatory Motion.- 3 / Quantization of Vibratory Motion.- 4 / Radial Motion in a Coulombic Field.- 5 / Quantum Mechanical Operators.- 6 / Wave Packets, Potentials, and Forces.- 7 / Angular Motion in a Spherically Symmetric Field.- 8 / Operators for Angular Momentum and Spin.- 9 / Propagation, Spreading, and Scattering.- 10 / Investigating Multiparticle Systems.- Answers to Problems.- Name Index.

Reihe/Serie	Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 2
Zusatzinfo	356 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10	94-010-8800-4 / 9401088004
ISBN-13	978-94-010-8800-8 / 9789401088008
Zustand	Neuware