Quantum physics for dummies:
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| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 2 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Classical Physics -- Objects in Motion: Classical Mechanics -- Newton makes the rules -- Describing motion -- Applying calculus to the motion -- Kinetic energy and momentum -- Finding momentum when direction matters -- Focusing on kinetic energy - but others exist -- Catching the Waves -- Some wavefront properties -- Wave interference and superposition -- Let There Be Light: Electromagnetism -- A light dispute: Corpuscles versus vibrations -- Dealing with obstructions -- Theories to explain light's behavior -- Young's double slit contradiction | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Maxwell's marvelous equations -- Connecting the forces -- Expressing the connections with math -- Michelson-Morley and the mysterious missing ether -- Looking for the ether -- Comparing the light on two paths -- Atoms: Building Blocks of Matter -- Ancient atomism -- Chemists discover the atom (maybe) -- And the electron -- Thermodynamics: Another Hot Topic -- The Games People Play: Unknowns and Uncertainties -- A roll of the dice: Classical probability -- Figuring the probability of an outcome for one die -- Letting probabilities simplify your analyses -- Uncertainties and deviations | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Accounting for measurement uncertainties -- Putting statistical notions to use -- Chapter 3 The Quantum Revolution -- Being Discrete: The Trouble with Black-Body Radiation -- An intuitive (quantum) leap: Max Planck's spectrum -- Seeing Light as Particles -- Solving the photoelectric effect -- Scattering light off electrons: The Compton effect -- Bohr's Atomic Model -- The changing of electron orbits -- Explaining results by using Bohr's model -- A Dual Identity: Looking at Particles as Waves -- Proof Positron? Dirac and Pair Production -- You Can't Know Everything (But You Can Figure the Odds) | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Position versus momentum: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- Understanding uncertainty when taking measurements -- Quantifying uncertainty -- Applying uncertainty to particle physics -- Rolling quantum dice: A new take on probability -- Two approaches to outcome probabilities -- Exploiting a wave function -- A New Take on Light: Quantum Electrodynamics -- What is doing the waving? -- First glimmers of QED -- The photon gets a new job -- Visualizing with Feynman's diagrams -- Tying Feynman's diagrams to quantum electrodynamics -- Breaking Open the Atom's Bits | |
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