Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Classical Magnetic Needles
- 3 The Stern–Gerlach Experiment
- 4 The Conundrum of Projections; Repeated Measurements
- 5 Probability
- 6 The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Paradox
- 7 Variations on a Theme by Einstein
- 8 Optical Interference
- 9 Quantal Interference
- 10 Amplitudes
- 11 Working with Amplitudes
- 12 Two-Slit Inventions
- 13 Quantum Cryptography
- 14 Quantum Mechanics of a Bouncing Ball
- 15 The Wavefunction
- Appendix A A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics
- Appendix B Putting Weirdness to Work
- Appendix C Sources
- Appendix D General Questions
- Appendix E Bibliography
- Appendix F Skeleton Answers for Selected Problems
- Index
Appendix C - Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Classical Magnetic Needles
- 3 The Stern–Gerlach Experiment
- 4 The Conundrum of Projections; Repeated Measurements
- 5 Probability
- 6 The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Paradox
- 7 Variations on a Theme by Einstein
- 8 Optical Interference
- 9 Quantal Interference
- 10 Amplitudes
- 11 Working with Amplitudes
- 12 Two-Slit Inventions
- 13 Quantum Cryptography
- 14 Quantum Mechanics of a Bouncing Ball
- 15 The Wavefunction
- Appendix A A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics
- Appendix B Putting Weirdness to Work
- Appendix C Sources
- Appendix D General Questions
- Appendix E Bibliography
- Appendix F Skeleton Answers for Selected Problems
- Index
Summary
Page xii, “the belief in an objective reality … ”: M. Kakutani, “How technology has changed modern culture”, New York Times, 28 November 1989.
Page 2, “[the theory of relativity] is a modification … ”: Herbert Goldstein, Classical Mechanics (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1950) page 185.
Page 2, “Nobody feels perfectly comfortable with it.”: Murray Gell-Mann, “Is the whole universe composed of superstrings?”, in Modern Physics in America, edited by W. Fickinger and K. Kiwakski (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1987) page 186.
Page 2, “I can safely say … ”: Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965) page 129.
Page 3, The threshold wavelength for stripping one electron from a helium atom: Experiment: S.D. Bergeson et al., “Measurement of the He Ground State Lamb Shift”, Physical Review Letters, 80 (1998) 3475–3478. Calculation: G.W.F. Drake, “High precision calculations for helium”, in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Handbook, edited by G.W.F. Drake (American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, New York, 1996) pages 154–171.
Page 4, “One can popularize the quantum theory … ”: N.D. Mermin, Space and Time in Special Relativity (Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Illinois, 1968) page vii.
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- The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics , pp. 138 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000