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Author:   Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer, Freelance science writer)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780198827856

ISBN 10:   0198827857
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   10 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Planck's Derivation of E = hn: The Quantisation of Energy 2: Einstein's Derivation of E = mc2: The Equivalence of Mass and Energy 3: Bohr's Derivation of the Rydberg Formula: Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps 4: De Broglie's Derivation of /\ = h/p: Wave-particle Duality 5: Schrödinger's Derivation of the Wave Equation: Quantisation as an Eigenvalue Problem 6: Born's Interpretation of the Wavefunction: Quantum Probability 7: Heisenberg, Bohr, Robertson, and the Uncertainty Principle : The Interpretation of Quantum Uncertainty 8: Heisenberg's Derivation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle: The Stability of Matter and the Periodic Table 9: Dirac's Derivation of the Relativistic Wave Equation: Electron Spin and Antimatter 10: Dirac, Von Neumann, and the Derivation of the Quantum Formalism: State Vectors in Hilbert Space 11: Von Neumann and the Problem of Quantum Measurement: The 'Collapse of the Wavefunction' 12: Einstein, Bohm, Bell, and the Derivation of Bell's Inequality: Entanglement and Quantum Non-locality

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Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. He trained as a scientist, completing a doctorate in chemical physics at the University of Oxford in the early 80s, before embarking on post-doctoral research studies at Oxford and at Stanford University in California. He gave up a tenured lectureship at the University of Reading after five years in order to gain experience in the commercial world. He worked for Shell International Petroleum for 11 years before leaving to establish his own business consultancy and training practice. He won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Marlow Medal for his contributions to scientific research in 1989.

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