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Erik Gregersen, “The Britannica Guide to Relativity and Quantum Mechanics”
Rosen Educational Services | 2011 | ISBN: 1615303308 | 269 pages | PDF | 3 MB
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 RELATIVITY
THE MECHANICAL UNIVERSE
LIGHT AND THE ETHER
SPECIAL RELATIVITY
EINSTEIN’S GEDANKENEXPERIMENTS
STARTING POINTS AND POSTULATES
RELATIVISTIC SPACE AND TIME
RELATIVISTIC MASS
COSMIC SPEED LIMIT
THE TWIN PARADOX
FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME
EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR SPECIAL RELATIVITY
CHAPTER 2 GENERAL RELATIVITY
PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE
CURVED SPACE-TIME AND GEOMETRIC GRAVITATION
THE MATHEMATICS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
COSMOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS
BLACK HOLES
EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR GENERAL RELATIVITY
UNCONFIRMED PREDICTIONS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
BLACK HOLES AND WORMHOLES
APPLICATIONS OF RELATIVISTIC IDEAS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
FISSION AND FUSION: BOMBS AND STELLAR PROCESSES
THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
COSMOLOGY
RELATIVITY, QUANTUM THEORY, AND UNIFIED THEORIES
INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL IMPACT OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER 3 QUANTUM MECHANICS: CONCEPTS
HISTORICAL BASIS OF QUANTUM THEORY
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS
PLANCK’S RADIATION LAW
EINSTEIN AND THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
BOHR’S THEORY OF THE ATOM
SCATTERING OF X-RAYS
BROGLIE’S WAVE HYPOTHESIS
BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS
SCHRÖDINGER’S WAVE MECHANICS
ELECTRON SPIN AND ANTIPARTICLES
IDENTICAL PARTICLES AND MULTIELECTRON ATOMS
TIME-DEPENDENT SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION
TUNNELING
AXIOMATIC APPROACH
INCOMPATIBLE OBSERVABLES
HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
CHAPTER 4 QUANTUM MECHANICS: INTERPRETATION
THE ELECTRON: WAVE OR PARTICLE?
HIDDEN VARIABLES
PARADOX OF EINSTEIN, PODOLSKY, AND ROSEN
MEASUREMENT IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
DECAY OF A MESON
CESIUM CLOCK
A QUANTUM VOLTAGE STANDARD
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE
CHAPTER 5 BIOGRAPHIES
CARL DAVID ANDERSON
HANS BETHE
DAVID BOHM
NIELS BOHR
MAX BORN
SATYENDRA NATH BOSE
LOUIS-VICTOR, 7E DUKE DE BROGLIE
EDWARD UHLER CONDON
CLINTON JOSEPH DAVISSON
P.A.M. DIRAC
SIR ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON
ALBERT EINSTEIN
ENRICO FERMI
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
ALEKSANDR ALEKSANDROVICH FRIEDMANN
GEORGE GAMOW
HANS GEIGER
MURRAY GELL-MANN
WALTHER GERLACH
LESTER HALBERT GERMER
SAMUEL ABRAHAM GOUDSMIT
WERNER HEISENBERG
PASCUAL JORDAN
BRIAN D. JOSEPHSON
MAX VON LAUE
HENDRIK ANTOON LORENTZ
ERNST MACH
A.A. MICHELSON
HERMANN MINKOWSKI
EDWARD WILLIAMS MORLEY
WOLFGANG PAULI
MAX PLANCK
HENRI POINCARÉ
ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER
KARL SCHWARZSCHILD
JULIAN SEYMOUR SCHWINGER
ARNOLD SOMMERFELD
OTTO STERN
TOMONAGA SHIN’ICHIRO
GEORGE EUGENE UHLENBECK
WILHELM WIEN
CONCLUSION
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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