(Ebook) 101 quantum questions what you need to know about the world you can t see 1st Edition by Kenneth William Ford ISBN 0674050991 9780674050990

(Ebook) 101 quantum questions what you need to know about the world you can t see 1st Edition by Kenneth William Ford ISBN 0674050991 9780674050990

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ISBN 10: 0674050991 
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Author: Kenneth William Ford

Ken Ford’s mission is to help us understand the “great ideas” of quantum physics—ideas such as wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, superposition, and conservation. These fundamental concepts provide the structure for 101 Quantum Questions, an authoritative yet engaging book for the general reader in which every question and answer brings out one or more basic features of the mysterious world of the quantum—the physics of the very small. Nuclear researcher and master teacher, Ford covers everything from quarks, quantum jumps, and what causes stars to shine, to practical applications ranging from lasers and superconductors to light-emitting diodes. Ford’s lively answers are enriched by Paul Hewitt's drawings, numerous photos of physicists, and anecdotes, many from Ford’s own experience. Organized for cover-to-cover reading, 101 Quantum Questions also is great for browsing. Some books focus on a single subject such as the standard model of particles, or string theory, or fusion energy. This book touches all those topics and more, showing us that disparate natural phenomena, as well as a host of manmade inventions, can be understood in terms of a few key ideas. Yet Ford does not give us simplistic explanations. He assumes a serious reader wanting to gain real understanding of the essentials of quantum physics. Ken Ford's other books include The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone (Harvard 2004), which Esquire magazine recommended as the best way to gain an understanding of quantum physics. Ford's new book, a sequel to the earlier one, makes the quantum world even more accessible.

(Ebook) 101 quantum questions what you need to know about the world you can t see 1st Table of contents:

I. The Subatomic World
Chapter 1. What is a quantum, anyway?
Chapter 2. Where do the laws of quantum physics hold sway?
Chapter 3. What is the correspondence principle?
Chapter 4. How big is an atom?
Chapter 5. What is inside an atom?
Chapter 6. Why is solid matter solid if it is mostly empty space?
Chapter 7. How big is an electron? Is there anything inside it?
II. Digging Deeper
Chapter 8. How big is a nucleus? What is inside it?
Chapter 9. How big are protons and neutrons? What is inside them?
Chapter 10. What is Planck’s constant and what is its signifi cance?
Chapter 11. What is a photon?
Chapter 12. What is the photoelectric effect?
Chapter 13. What particles are believed to be fundamental? What particles are composite? 30
Chapter 14. What is the standard model?
III. The Small and the Swift
Chapter 15. What are some quantum scales of distance?
Chapter 16. How far can one particle “reach out” to infl uence another one?
Chapter 17. How fast do particles move?
Chapter 18. What are some quantum scales of time?
Chapter 19. What is the meaning of E = mc2?
Chapter 20. What is electric charge?
Chapter 21. What is spin?
IV. Quantum Lumps andQuantum Jumps
Chapter 22. What are some things that are lumpy (and some that are not)?
Chapter 23. What is a “state of motion”?
Chapter 24. Is a hydrogen atom in an excited state of motion the same atom in a different state or i
Chapter 25. What are quantum numbers? What are the rules for combining them?
Chapter 26. What is a quantum jump?
Chapter 27. What is the role of probability in quantum physics?
Chapter 28. Is there any certainty in the quantum world?
V. Atoms and Nuclei
Chapter 29. What is a line spectrum? What does it reveal about atoms?
Chapter 30. Why is the chart of the elements periodic?
Chapter 31. Why are heavy atoms nearly the same size as lightweight atoms?
Chapter 32. How do protons and neutrons move within a nucleus?
Chapter 33. What are atomic number and atomic mass?
VI. And More about Nuclei
Chapter 34. Why does the periodic table end?
Chapter 35. What is radioactivity? What are its forms?
Chapter 36. Why is the neutron stable within a nucleus but unstable when alone?
Chapter 37. What is nuclear fi ssion? Why does it release energy?
Chapter 38. What about nuclear fusion?
VII. Particles
Chapter 39. What is a lepton? What are its fl avors?
Chapter 40. How many distinct neutrinos are there? How do we know?
Chapter 41. Do neutrinos have mass? Why do they “oscillate”?
Chapter 42. Are there really only three generations of particles?
Chapter 43. How do we know that all electrons are identical?
VIII. And More Particles
Chapter 44. Names, names, names. What do they all mean?
Chapter 45. What are the properties of quarks? How do they combine?
Chapter 46. What are the composite particles? How many are there?
Chapter 47. Does every particle have to be a fermion or a boson? What sets these two classes apart?
Chapter 48. What is a Bose- Einstein condensate?
Chapter 49. How did bosons and fermions get their names?
IX. Interactions
Chapter 50. What is a Feynman diagram?
Chapter 51. What are the essential features of Feynman diagrams?
Chapter 52. How do Feynman diagrams illustrate the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions?
Chapter 53. Which particles are stable? Which are unstable? What does it mean to say that a particle
Chapter 54. What is scattering?
Chapter 55. What is the same before and after a scattering or a decay?
Chapter 56. What changes during a scattering or decay?
X. Constancy during Change
Chapter 57. What are the “big four” absolute conservation laws?
Chapter 58. What additional absolute conservation laws operate in the quantum world?
Chapter 59. What is the TCP theorem?
Chapter 60. What conservation laws are only “partial”?
Chapter 61. What symmetry principles are only “partial”?
Chapter 62. What are laws of compulsion and of prohibition?
Chapter 63. How are the concepts of symmetry, invariance, and conservation related?
XI. Waves and Particles
Chapter 64. What do waves and particles have in common? How do they differ?
Chapter 65. What is the de Broglie equation? What is its signifi cance?
Chapter 66. How are waves related to quantum lumps?
Chapter 67. How do waves relate to the size of atoms?
Chapter 68. What is diffraction? What is interference?
Chapter 69. What is the two- slit experiment? Why is it important?
Chapter 70. What is tunneling?
XII Waves and Probability
Chapter 71. What is a wave function? What is Schrödinger’s equation?
Chapter 72. How do waves determine probabilities?
Chapter 73. How do waves prevent particles from having fi xed positions?
Chapter 74. What is the uncertainty principle?
Chapter 75. How does the uncertainty principle relate to the wave nature of matter?
Chapter 76. What is superposition?
Chapter 77. Are waves necessary?
XIII. Quantum Physics and Technology
Chapter 78. How are particles pushed close to the speed of light?
Chapter 79. How are high- energy particles detected?
Chapter 80. How does a laser work?
Chapter 81. How do electrons behave in a metal?
Chapter 82. What is a semiconductor?
Chapter 83. What is a p-n junction? Why is it a diode?
Chapter 84. What are some uses of diodes?
Chapter 85. What is a transistor?
XIV. Quantum Physics at Every Scale
Chapter 86. Why do black holes evaporate?
Chapter 87. How does quantum physics operate in the center of the Sun?
Chapter 88. What is superconductivity?
Chapter 89. What is superfl uidity?
Chapter 90. What is a Josephson junction?
Chapter 91. What is a quantum dot?
Chapter 92. What is a quark- gluon plasma?
Chapter 93. What is the Planck length? What is quantum foam?
XV. Frontiers and Puzzles
Chapter 94. Why are physicists in love with the number 137?
Chapter 95. What is entanglement?
Chapter 96. What is Bell’s in e quality?
Chapter 97. What is a qubit? What is quantum computing?
Chapter 98. What is the Higgs particle? Why is it important?
Chapter 99. What is string theory?
Chapter 100. What is the “mea sure ment problem”?
Chapter 101. How come the quantum?

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