The Picture Book of Quantum Mechanics
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Book Overview
The basic concepts of quantum mechanics are explained through computer-generated illustrations helping to establish the relation between quantum mechanics and classical physics. The CD-ROM contains all illustrations from the book in full color, suitable for direct display or for printing out as posters or teaching aids. It also includes a new chapter on quantile motion and tunneling time, as well as some additional phenomena and examples.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0471817767
ISBN13:9780471817765
Release Date:January 1985
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons
Length:326 Pages
Weight:2.35 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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A ray of light
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book is totally excellent. This book sheds much light on quantum mechanics with its excellent graphical representations of the functions involved. The CD-ROM is also great. The companion book which introduces the computer software usd to generate many of these graphics is also great and brings a physics lab into your own room (well as far as is possible)! These books make the reader feel like a physicist rather than a recipient of some authour's bruised ego as the authour tries to confuse the reader by demonstrating 'mathematical prowess' by making their subject dull and unintelligible. This book is beautiful and inspiring and a must for anyone interested in quantum mechanics. The text contains a lot of detail, but the accompanying images make even the harder parts a joy to read. Since reading this book I have decided that a proper physics book is not simply a half-explained mathematical proof splattered on paper with accompanying problems that try to out-smart competing authours, but a good physics book is, like this one, about physics! Physics can be a very visual subject, so let's make it so! If more books were as well thought out as this one then we would have more first-class physicists!
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