Table of Contents

Our First Quantum Object: Light. Particles. Quantum States. Amplitudes. Measurement. Interference. The Free Particle. Identical Particles. Scattering Identical Bosons. Spin. Fermion States. Wave Functions. Uncertainty. Genealogy. Planck and Einstein. Niels Bohr. Werner Heisenberg. Erwin Schrödinger. Paul Dirac. Conclusions. Applications of Quantum Theory. Entanglement. Interpretations. The Copenhagen. Interpretation. The Many Worlds Interpretation. Other Interpretations. Quantum Field Theory.

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The Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich, UK

Reviews

! a good and thorough presentation of the philosophical issues that have come so much to the fore in recent decades. This can in many ways stand among the best treatments of this side of the subject at the non-specialist level. ! --Contemporary Physics, Vol. 52, No. 1, January 2011