Remodeling Reality Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and the Modern Worldview
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 9788740309584
Table of contents: title: Content; title: The First 2000 Years; title: The Birth of Science; title: The Greek Worldview; title: The Middle Ages; title: The Scientific Revolution and the Modern Worldview; title: Nicolaus Copernicus; title: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler; title: Galileo Galilei; title: Isaac Newton; title: Nineteenth Century Physics; title: Atoms in the 19th Century; title: The Chemical Elements; title: The Nature of Light; title: Energy; title: Unresolved Questions at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; title: Observations That Appeared To Defy Analysis Using Classical Physics; title: The Scientific Worldview at the Start of the 20-th Century; title: Max Planck and the Concept of the Quantum; title: Max Planck; title: The Concept of the Quantum; title: Albert Einstein and the Miracle Year; title: The Photoelectric Effect and the Quantum Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation; title: Brownian Motion and the Reality of Atoms; title: Special Relativity and Space-time; title: The Equivalence of Matter and Energy; title: Einstein’s Fifth Paper; title: Length Contraction and Time Dilation; title: The Relativity of Speed; title: The Relativity of Time; title: Time Dilation; title: Length Contraction; title: The Twin Paradox; title: The General Theory of Relativity; title: The Principle of Equivalence; title: The General Theory of Relativity; title: Evidence for the General Theory of Relativity; title: The General Theory of Relativity Today; title: The Bohr Model of the Atom; title: Classical Models of the Atom; title: The Bohr Model of the Atom; title: Problems with the Bohr Model; title: Werner Heisenberg and Matrix Mechanics; title: Werner Heisenberg; title: Matrix Mechanics; title: Erwin Schrodinger and Wave Mechanics; title: De Broglie Waves; title: Schrodinger’s Wave Equation; title: Max Born and the Interpretation of the Wave Function; title: Schrodinger’s Interpretation; title: Max Born’s Interpretation; title: The Double-Slit Experiment; title: Indeterminacy; title: Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle; title: Werner Heisenberg; title: The 1927 Solvay Conference; title: The 1930 Solvay Conference; title: Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen Interpretation; title: The Correspondence Principle and Complementarity; title: The Copenhagen Interpretation; title: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Challenge and Bell’s Inequality; title: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment; title: Bell’s Inequality; title: The Delayed-Choice Experiment and Schrodinger’s Cat; title: The Delayed-Choice Experiment; title: Schrodinger’s Cat