An easy-to-understand Guide to the complex subject of Quantum physics.
Throughout the book, there are timelines and profiles about the scientists who developed the theories and made important discoveries in Quantum physics, including Dmitri Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, William Shockley, Isama Akasaki, Stephen Hawking, Enrico.
Into the Future -- Quantum Physics of space; Quantum gravity; graviton
Hawking radiation (grand unified theory); dark matter; strings; dark energy.
Quantum Physics in Medicine and industry -- magnetic resonance imaging; superfluidity; cancer treatment by radiation 9.
Particle Physics -- elementary particles; quarks; leptons; electron and electron neutrino; muon and muon neutrino; tauon and tau neutrino; bosons; photon
W and Z boson; gluon
Higgs boson; composite particles; hadrons; matter-anti-matter 8.
Subatomic Particles -- radioactivity; atomic particles; protons; neutrons; electrons 7.
Wave Mechanics -- Heisenberg uncertainty principle; wave functions; standing waves; wave particle duality 6.
Spin -- spin; fermions; exclusion principle
Fermi Dirac distribution
Bose-Einstein statistics 5.
Quantum devices -- superconductors; transistor, diode; light-emitting diode; laser 4.
Photons -- photoelectric effect; thermal emission and the Planck distribution; wave particle duality (Young\'s slit experiment) 3.
Atoms -- quantum; Quantum Physics in everyday life; the periodic table; atoms and nuclei; isotopes; hydrogen atom (energy levels and spectra) 2.
The sections and chapters are: 1.
For other people, however, the rules of Quantum Physics seem to violate all logic: How can a particle be in more than one place at the same time? How can it tunnel through an impenetrable barrier? How can a cat in a box be both alive and dead? This book explains the complexities of Quantum Physics in bite-sized ``lessons`` that make it clear and accessible to all readers.
Quantum Physics is how scientists describe the world of the very small.
An easy-to-understand Guide to the complex subject of Quantum physics
