The New Quantum Universe
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 10/23/2003
EAN 9780521564571, ISBN10: 0521564573
Paperback, 370 pages, 24.6 x 19 x 2 cm
Language: English
Following the success of The Quantum Universe, first published in 1987, a host of exciting new discoveries have been made in the field of quantum mechanics. The New Quantum Universe provides an up-to-date and accessible introduction to the essential ideas of quantum physics, and demonstrates how it affects our everyday life. Quantum mechanics gives an understanding of not only atoms and nuclei, but also all the elements and even the stars. The book explains quantum paradoxes and the eventful life of Schroedinger's Cat, along with the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox and Bell's Inequality. It then looks ahead to the nanotechnology revolution, describing quantum cryptography, quantum computing and quantum teleportation, and ends with an account of quantum mechanics and science fiction. Using simple non-mathematical language, this book is suitable for final-year school students, science undergraduates, and anyone wishing to appreciate how physics allows the new technologies that are changing our lives.
Preface
1. Waves versus particles
2. Heisenberg and uncertainty
3. Schroedinger and matter waves
4. Atoms and nuclei
5. Quantum tunnelling
6. Pauli and the elements
7. Quantum co-operation and superfluids
8. Quantum jumps
9. Quantum engineering
10. Death of a star
11. Feynman rules
12. Weak photons and strong glue
13. Afterword - quantum physics and science fiction
Epilogue
Appendices.
From reviews of the first edition: 'The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.' Richard P. Feynman