Exploring quantum physics through hands-on projects [[electronic resource] /] / David Prutchi and Shanni R. Prutchi

• Autore: Prutchi David
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2011
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxv, 261 p. )
• Disciplina: 535.15
• Soggetto topico: Quantum theory; Quantum theory - Experiments; Science projects
• Classificazione: SCI057000
• Altri autori: PrutchiShanni R
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 readers step by step through the process of re-creating scientific experiments that played an essential role in the creation and development of quantum mechanics. Presented in near chronological order-from discoveries of the early twentieth century to new material on entanglement-th
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring quantum physics through hands-on projects
• ISBN: 1-280-58880-2; 1-118-17070-9; 1-118-17068-7; 1-118-17071-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141348103321
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