Remodeling Reality Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and the Modern Worldview
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 9788740309584
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. The First 2000 Years; title: 1.1. The Birth of Science; title: 1.2. The Greek Worldview; title: 1.3. The Middle Ages; title: 2. The Scientific Revolution and the Modern Worldview; title: 2.1. Nicolaus Copernicus; title: 2.2. Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler; title: 2.3. Galileo Galilei; title: 2.4. Isaac Newton; title: 3. Nineteenth Century Physics; title: 3.1. Atoms in the 19th Century; title: 3.2. The Chemical Elements; title: 3.3. The Nature of Light; title: 3.4. Energy; title: 4. Unresolved Questions at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; title: 4.1. Observations That Appeared To Defy Analysis Using Classical Physics; title: 4.2. The Scientific Worldview at the Start of the 20-th Century; title: 5. Max Planck and the Concept of the Quantum; title: 5.1. Max Planck; title: 5.2. The Concept of the Quantum; title: 6. Albert Einstein and the Miracle Year; title: 6.1. The Photoelectric Effect and the Quantum Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation; title: 6.2. Brownian Motion and the Reality of Atoms; title: 6.3. Special Relativity and Space-time; title: 6.4. The Equivalence of Matter and Energy; title: 6.5. Einstein’s Fifth Paper; title: 7. Length Contraction and Time Dilation; title: 7.1. The Relativity of Speed; title: 7.2. The Relativity of Time; title: 7.3. Time Dilation; title: 7.4. Length Contraction; title: 7.5. The Twin Paradox; title: 8. The General Theory of Relativity; title: 8.1. The Principle of Equivalence; title: 8.2. The General Theory of Relativity; title: 8.3. Evidence for the General Theory of Relativity; title: 8.4. The General Theory of Relativity Today; title: 9. The Bohr Model of the Atom; title: 9.1. Classical Models of the Atom; title: 9.2. The Bohr Model of the Atom; title: 9.3. Problems with the Bohr Model; title: 10. Werner Heisenberg and Matrix Mechanics; title: 10.1. Werner Heisenberg; title: 10.2. Matrix Mechanics; title: 11. Erwin Schrodinger and Wave Mechanics; title: 11.1. De Broglie Waves; title: 11.2. Schrodinger’s Wave Equation; title: 12. Max Born and the Interpretation of the Wave Function; title: 12.1. Schrodinger’s Interpretation; title: 12.2. Max Born’s Interpretation; title: 12.3. The Double-Slit Experiment; title: 12.4. Indeterminacy; title: 13. Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle; title: 13.1. Werner Heisenberg; title: 13.2. The 1927 Solvay Conference; title: 13.3. The 1930 Solvay Conference; title: 14. Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen Interpretation; title: 14.1. The Correspondence Principle and Complementarity; title: 14.2. The Copenhagen Interpretation; title: 15. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Challenge and Bell’s Inequality; title: 15.1. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment; title: 15.2. Bell’s Inequality; title: 16. The Delayed-Choice Experiment and Schrodinger’s Cat; title: 16.1. The Delayed-Choice Experiment; title: 16.2. Schrodinger’s Cat