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Author:   Alex Montwill (Univ College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Ann Breslin (Univ College Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher:   Imperial College Press
Imprint:   Imperial College Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781848166479

ISBN 10:   1848166478
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   23 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Newton, the Classical Atom; Planck and the Birth of the Quantum Adventure; Light - Wave or Particle? Einstein and the Photoelectric Effect; Bohr Introduces Quanta to Atoms; Hamilton Lays Foundations for Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Dirac; Berkeley's Philosophy; Einstein's Questions and Paradoxes; Quantum Reality and Bell's Inequality.

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It Includes some unusual background on the historical developments that produced the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approaches to classical mechanics. -- CHOICE CHOICE

It Includes some unusual background on the historical developments that produced the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approaches to classical mechanics. -- CHOICE CHOICE It gave a good account of the development of quantum mechanics and the world of the very small, which is certainly accessible to the interested layman. -- Prof Donald H Davis University College London

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