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The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (College Commision on Physics)

This monograph is incomplete in several respects. Many useful figures and references could be added. Problems (not yet prepared) are necessary to fill out considerations that are only lightly sketched in the text. (Some of the positions at which problems are needed are indicated by the symbol [Problem]). The discussion may often be heavier than it is considered as an end in itself. The material presented here was planned as the first chapter of a textbook on Quantum Mechanics designed for students at an intermediate level (Junior, Senior). The second chapter of the proposed text is to deal with the superposition principle. In this second chapter the usefulness of the many abstractions introduced in the monograph is to be exhibited by employing them for the detailed analysis of microphysical phenomena. Thus to obtain a reasonably thorough understanding of this monograph a study of the as yet-non-existent Chapter 2 is required. All this, however, may hardly be worth stating. A theorem of great generality is applicable: “Chapter n of any book in physics cannot be understood until Chapter n + 1 is mastered.” Preface iii 1 The Failure Of Classical Theory 1 2 Consequences Of A Mistrust O

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