101 Quantum Questions : : What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See /

101 Quantum Questions : : What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See / / Kenneth William Ford.

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Ken Ford's mission is to help us understand the "great ideas" of quantum physics-ideas such as wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, superposition, and conservation. These fundamental concepts provide the structure for 101 Quantum Questions, an authoritative yet engaging b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Ford, Kenneth William,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.) :; 39 halftones, 64 line illustrations, 9 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section I. The Subatomic World
  • Section II. Digging Deeper
  • Section III. The Small and the Swift
  • Section IV. Quantum Lumps and Quantum Jumps
  • Section V. Atoms and Nuclei
  • Section VI. And More about Nuclei
  • Section VII. Particles
  • Section VIII. And More Particles
  • Section IX. Interactions
  • Section X. Constancy during Change
  • Section XI. Waves and Particles
  • Section XII. Waves and Probability
  • Section XIII. Quantum Physics and Technology
  • Section XIV. Quantum Physics at Every Scale
  • Section XV. Frontiers and Puzzles
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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