ABC's of Quantum Mechanics /V. Rydnik; translated from the Russian by George Yankovsky

At the turn of the 20th century, physics entered into a new world, the invisible silent world of atoms, atomic nuclei and elementary particles. Our twentieth century then produced the theory that has been serving physicists so faithfully for over sixty years -- quantum mechanics. The landscape of the new world is quire unlike our own. So different that phsyicists frequently lack words to describe it. Quantum mechanics had to create new conceptions for the world of the ultrasmall, bizarre conceptions beyond the scope of pictorial imagery. Customary physical laws cease to operate in the new world. Particles lose their dimensions and acquire the properties of waves. Electrons and the other building stones of matter can pass through impenetrable barriers, or they can vanish altogether leaving only photons in their place. Those are the things quantum mechanics dealt with. This book will tell you about the origin and development of quantum mechanics, about its new concepts. It will describe how the new theory deciphered the secrets of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, atomic nulei, and how quantum mechanics is dealing with the problem of the most fundamental of all properties of matter --the interaction of particles and the relationships between fields and matter. Scan_Doc0001 Scan_Doc0002 Scan_Doc0003 Scan_Doc0004 Scan_Doc0005 Scan_Doc0006 Scan_Doc0007 Scan_Doc0008 Scan_Doc0009 Scan_Doc0010 Scan_Doc0011 Scan_Doc0012 Scan_Doc0013 Scan_Doc0014 Scan_Doc0015 Scan_Doc0016 Scan_Doc0017 Scan_Doc0018 Scan_Doc0019 Scan_Doc0020 Scan_Doc0021 Scan_Doc0022 Scan_Doc0023 Scan_Doc0024 Scan_Doc0025 Scan_Doc0026 Scan_Doc0027 Scan_Doc0028 Scan_Doc0029 Scan_Doc0030 Scan_Doc0031 Scan_Doc0032 Scan_Doc0033 Scan_Doc0034 Scan_Doc0035 Scan_Doc0036 Scan_Doc0037 Scan_Doc0038 Scan_Doc0039 Scan_Doc0040 Scan_Doc0041 Scan_Doc0042 Scan_Doc0043 Scan_Doc0044 Scan_Doc0045 Scan_Doc0046 Scan_Doc0047 Scan_Doc0048 Scan_Doc0049 Scan_Doc0050 Scan_Doc0051 Scan_Doc0052 Scan_Doc0053 Scan_Doc0054 Scan_Doc0055 Scan_Doc0056 Scan_Doc0057 Scan_Doc0058 Scan_Doc0059 Scan_Doc0060 Scan_Doc0061 Scan_Doc0062 Scan_Doc0063 Scan_Doc0064 Scan_Doc0065 Scan_Doc0066 Scan_Doc0067 Scan_Doc0068 Scan_Doc0069 Scan_Doc0070 Scan_Doc0071 Scan_Doc0072 Scan_Doc0073 Scan_Doc0074 Scan_Doc0075 Scan_Doc0076 Scan_Doc0077 Scan_Doc0078 Scan_Doc0079 Scan_Doc0080