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Michael A. Morrison Understanding Quantum Physics A User’s Manual ( 1990, Prentice Hall)

PREFACE xv Part I What's It All About?: A Qualitative Introduction 1 1 INTRODUCTORY: WHY QUANTUM PHYSICS? 1 1.1 The Classical Point of View 3 1.2 Through the Looking Glass: The Quantum Point of View 6 1.3 Final Thoughts: What's It All About? 12 Annotated Selected Readings 13 Exercises and Problems 14 2 INTO THE MICROWORLD: DUALITY AND THE DOUBLE SLIT 18 2.1 Waves versus Particles 20 *2.2 On The Nature of Light 21 *2.3 Understanding Diffraction the Classical Way 26 *2.4 Understanding Interference 28 2.5 Double Trouble 31 2.6 It All Started with de Broglie 36 2.7 The Controversial Concept of Complimentarity 40 2.8 Final Thoughts: A Few Words About Words 42 Annotated Selected Readings 42 Exercises and Problems 44 Part II Starting from Scratch 51 3 FIRST POSTULATES: THE STATE FUNCTION AND ITS INTERPRETATION 51 3.1 Patterns of Propagating Possibility: Probability Waves 52 3.2 Systems and States Thereof 57 *3.3 Probabilities: A Review 61 3.4 The Gospel According to Born 68 3.5 How to Normalize a State Function 73 3.6 Great Expectations (and Uncertainties) 79 3.7 Final Thoughts: What the State Function Isn't 85 Annotated Selected Readings 87 Exercises and Problems 89 4 AN ILLUSTRATIVE INT

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