Art Hobson

Tales of the Quantum

Understanding Physics' Most Fundamental Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a book about the quanta that make up our universe¿the highly unified bundles of energy of which everything is made. It explains wave-particle duality, randomness, quantum states, non-locality, Schrodinger's cat, quantum jumps, and more, in everyday language for non-scientists and scientists who wish to fathom science's most fundamental theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780190679637
• ISBN-10: 0190679638
• Artikelnr.: 47866372

Autorenporträt

Art Hobson is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he continues to keep a campus office and remains quite active in research.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Tale of the Quantum in the Window
THE UNIVERSE IS MADE OF QUANTA
Chapter 2: What Is Quantum Physics About?
Chapter 3: Particles and Classical Mechanics
Chapter 4: Fields and Classical Electromagnetism
Chapter 5: What Is a Quantum?
HOW QUANTA BEHAVE
Chapter 6: Perfect Randomness
Chapter 7: Quantum States and How They Change
Chapter 8: Superpositions and Macroscopic Quanta
Chapter 9: An Entangled, Nonlocal Universe
GETTING BACK TO THE NORMAL WORLD
Chapter 10: Schrodinger's Cat and "Measurement"
Chapter 11: The Environment as Monitor: How Change Becomes Irreversible
Endnotes
Glossary
Index