Exploring quantum physics through hands-on projects
Build an intuitive understanding of the principles behind quantum mechanics through practical construction and replication of original experiments With easy-to-acquire, low-cost materials and basic knowledge of algebra and trigonometry, Exploring Quantum Physics through Hands-on Projects takes reade...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley
c2012.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628272406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- EXPLORING QUANTUM PHYSICS THROUGH HANDS-ON PROJECTS; Introduction; Prologue; Important Disclaimer and Warnings; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; 1 LIGHT AS AWAVE; Newton's View: Light Consists of Particles; Young's Interference of Light; Automatic Scanning of Interference Patterns; The Final Nail in the Coffin for Newton's Theory of Light; Light as an Electromagnetic Wave; Polarization; Optics with 3-cm Wavelength "Light"; Real-World Behaviors; Double-Slit Interference with Microwaves; The Doppler Effect; Experiments and Questions; 2 LIGHT AS PARTICLES
- The Seed of Quantum Physics: Planck's FormulaThe Photoelectric Effect; Can we Detect Individual Photons?; Low-Cost PMT Power Supplies; Listening to Individual Photons; Where does this Leave Us?; Experiments and Questions; 3 ATOMS AND RADIOACTIVITY; The Need for Vacuum; The Mechanical Vacuum Pump; The Vacuum Gauge; A Very-High-Voltage Power Supply; A Vacuum Tube Lego® Set; Phosphor Screens; The Electron Gun; The Discovery of the Electron; Cathode-Ray Tubes; Thomson's First 1897 Experiment-Negative Charge and Rays are Joined Together
- Thomson's Second Experiment-Electrostatic Deflection of Cathode RaysThomson and the Modern CRT; Thomson's Third Experiment-Mass-to-Charge Ratio of the Electron; Measuring e/m with our CRT; A Magical Measurement of e/m; Thomson's "Plum Pudding" Model of the Atom; Geiger-Müller Counter; a, ß, and ?; The Nature of Beta Radiation; The Ionizing Power of Alpha; What are Alpha Particles?; Rutherford's Alpha-Scattering Experiment; Rutherford's Planetary Model of the Atom; Experiments and Questions; 4 THE PRINCIPLE OF QUANTUM PHYSICS; Emission Spectroscopy; Bohr's Spark of Genius
- Orbitals and Not OrbitsQuantization-The Core of Quantum Physics; Experiments and Questions; 5 WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY; Gamma-Ray Spectrum Analysis; What is the Nature of Light?; Two-Slit Interference with Single Photons; Imaging Single Photons; The Answer: Complementarity; Matter Waves; Matter Waves and the Bohr Atom; Experimental Confirmation of De Broglie's Matter Waves; Two-Slit Interference with Single Electrons; A Simple TEM; Blurring the Line Between Quantum and Classical; Particle-Wave Duality in the Macroscopic World; Experiments and Questions; 6 THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; Wavefunctions
- The Uncertainty PrincipleExperimental Demonstration of the Uncertainty Principle; Time-Energy Uncertainty; Fourier Analysis; Bye, Bye Clockwork Universe; Experiments and Questions; 7 SCHRÖDINGER (AND HIS ZOMBIE CAT); Real-World Particle in a Box; Quantum Tunneling; Quantum Tunneling Time; Many-Worlds Interpretation; Schrödinger's Cat in the Lab; Beam Splitters; Who Rolls the Dice?; The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer; "Which-Way" Experiments; The Quantum Eraser; Experiments and Questions; 8 ENTANGLEMENT; Bell's Inequalities; An Entangled-Photon Source; Detecting Entangled Photons
- High-Purity Single-Photon Source
