Atoms, Metaphors and Paradoxes - Niels Bohr and the Construction of a New Physics

Klappentext This book examines the development of Niels Bohr's crucial insights during the birth of quantum mechanics. Zusammenfassung This book gives a detailed study of Niels Bohr's Principle of Correspondence. It examines the development of crucial and original insights of Bohr during the birth of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The paradigm of complementarity; 2. Atomic model and quantum hypotheses; 3. The principle of correspondence; 4. The theory of virtual oscillators; 5. The conceptual foundation of quantum mechanics; 6. The Bohr-Einstein confrontation: phenomena and physical reality; General bibliography; Name index; General index.

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• Authors: Sandro Petruccioli, Sandro (Universit... Di Reggio Calabr Petruccioli, Sandro (Universita DI Reggio Calabria Petruccioli, Petruccioli Sandro
• Assisted by: Ian McGilvray (Translation), McGilvray Ian (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521031882
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03188-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / Physics / General, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)