The Heroic Age: The Creation Of Quantum Mechanics, 1925-1940

Clouds on the horizon: nineteenth-century origins and the old quantum theory -- 1913: the Bohr theory of the hydrogen atom -- Tyranny of data: atomic spectroscopy to 1925 -- After the war: quantum theory adrift; the correspondence princple -- At the creation: the "new quantum theory"--The origins of wave mechanics -- The end of certainty: uncertainty and indeterminism -- Formalism, part I. Transformation theory -- Formalism, part II. unitarity and Hilbert space -- Intrinisc spin, the exclusion principle, and statistics -- Angular momentum, symmetries, and conservation laws -- Scattering and reaction theory -- Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to 1940: the rise of particle physics -- Foundations and philosophy of quantum mechanics: interpretation and the measurement problem -- Nuclear physics: the first three decades -- Quantum theory and the birth of stellar astrophysics -- Atomic and molecular physics -- Condensed matter: solids and quantum liquids -- Epilogue

• | Author: Robert D. Purrington
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 19, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 425 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Science
• | ISBN-10: 0190655178
• | ISBN-13: 9780190655174