ABC's of Quantum Mechanics

Front Cover
Title Page
Preface
Contents
From classical mechanics to quantum mechanics
	In Lieu of an Introduction
	The Outlines of the New World
	The Temple of Classical Mechanics
	The Temple Collapses
	How the New Theory was Named
	Physicists Build Models
	Not Everything Can be Modelled
	The Invisible, Untouchable World
	Difficult but Interesting
The first steps of .the new theory
	Heat and Light
	Blacker than Black
	Exact Laws, Not Rough Approximations
	The Ultraviolet Catastrophe
	Classical Physics at an Impasse
	The Way out
	Quanta of Energy
	The Elusive Quanta
	An Unaccountable Phenomenon
	Photons
	What is Light?
	The Visiting Cards of Atoms
	Why do Bodies Emit Light?
	The Biography of the Atom Written by Niels Bohr
	From Where do We Reckon the Energy?
	Excited Atoms
	The First Setbacks
From Bohr's theory to quantum mechanics
	A Remarkable Article
	A Little about Ordinary Waves
	Getting Acquainted with Matter Waves
	Why Can't We See de Broglie Waves?
	The Wave is Found
	Two-Faced Particles
	Pilot Waves
	Together or Separately?
	A Visit to the Shooting Range
	Waves of Probability
	Probability Enters into Physics
	Cautious Predictions
	Waves of Particles and Particles of Waves
	On the Way to the Wave Law
	Measuring Instruments Take over
	The Uncertainty Relation
	What is to Blame, the Instrument or the Electron?
	An Attempt with Rather Faulty Tools
	Another Marvel
	The Uncertainty Relation Once Again
	Matter Waves Again
	The Wave Function
	Waves and Quanta are United
Atoms, molecules, crystals
	Clouds in Place of Orbits
	Monotony in Diversity
	Another Marvel- But as Yet Unexplained
	The Atomic Architect at Work
	Crazy Atoms
	Atoms and Chemistry
	The Birth of a Spectrum
	Fat Lines and Double Lines
	Atoms Get Married
	Solid Bodies are Really Solid!
	Skeletons and Multistorey Structures of Crystals
	Insulators Can Conduct Current!
	How Does Current Move in a Metal?
	Those Wonderful 'Semi-Things'
	Useful 'Dirt'
	Generous and Greedy Atoms
The interior of the atomic nucleus
	On the Threshold
	The First Step
	The Second Step
	The Search for the Mysterious Meson
	The Strongest Forces of All
	Once Again about the Stability of Nuclei
	Tunnels in Nuclei
	Does the Nucleus Consist of Shells?
	Where do Gamma Rays Come from?
	The Nucleus as a Liquid Drop?
	The Liquid-Drop Nucleus Splits
	The Secrets of Nuclear Fission
	How Many Nuclei Can There Be?
	The Nucleus as Shells and Liquid Drop Together!
	Particles Fly out of the Nucleus that Were Never There!
	The Electron Has an Accomplice
	Electrons are Born in Nuclei
	The Hungry Nucleus
From atomic nuclei to elementary particles
	The Discovery of a New World
	The Invisible Dividing Line
	A Bit More about the Theory of Relativity
	The First Difficulties
	An Unexpected Discovery
	A Still More Unexpected Discovery
	The Birth of a "Hole"
	The Outlines of Emptiness
	Complete Emptiness?
	Emptiness Depends on Bodies!
	Matter and Fields
	There is No Emptiness!
	What the Whales Rest on
	Particles Change Their Guise
	The Two-Faced Pi-Meson
	A Clue to Meson Exchange
	The Virtual Becomes Real
	The Kindgdom of Virtualities
	The Virtual Becomes Real
	In the Search for New Particles
	Sorting the Booty
	Antiparticles Come into Action
	Particles Disintegrate
	Physicists Classify Interactions
	The Mystery of the K-Mesons
	Is the Left Any Different from the Right?
	A Way out is Found!
	Worlds and Antiworlds
	What Goes on Inside Particles?
	The Mysterious Resonances
	The Curtain Rises
	Resonances Get Citizenship
	Triplets, Octets -
	Quarks
	Old Ideas Hold One Back
	The Reverse of the Obvious
	The Ubiquitous Quantum
From quantum mechanics to . . ?
	Indeterminable Dctcrminacies
	The Biography of Quantum Mechanics
	Quantum Mechanics Gets Its Second Wind