This Quantum World

Contents

 * 1) Cover and interwiki links
 * 2) Atoms
 * 3) What does an atom look like?
 * 4) Like this?
 * 5) Or like this?
 * 6) Quantum states
 * 7) Fuzzy observables
 * 8) Serious illnesses require drastic remedies
 * 9) Planck
 * 10) Rutherford
 * 11) Bohr
 * 12) de Broglie
 * 13) Schrödinger
 * 14) Born
 * 15) Heisenberg
 * 16) The Feynman route to Schrödinger
 * 17) Two rules
 * 18) An experiment with two slits
 * 19) Why product?
 * 20) Why is the absolute value inverse proportional to the distance?
 * 21) Why is the phase proportional to the distance?
 * 22) Calculating the interference pattern
 * 23) Bohm's story
 * 24) Hidden Variables
 * 25) Propagator for a free and stable particle
 * 26) The propagator as a path integral
 * 27) A free particle
 * 28) A free and stable particle
 * 29) Meaning of mass
 * 30) From quantum to classical
 * 31) Action
 * 32) Geodesic equations
 * 33) Principle of least action
 * 34) Energy and momentum
 * 35) Lorentz force law
 * 36) Whence the classical story?
 * 37) Schrödinger at last
 * 38) The Schrödinger equation: implications and applications
 * 39) How fuzzy positions get fuzzier
 * 40) Time independent Schrödinger equation
 * 41) Why energy is quantized
 * 42) A quantum bouncing ball
 * 43) Atomic hydrogen
 * 44) Observables and operators
 * 45) Beyond hydrogen: the Periodic Table
 * 46) Probability flux
 * 47) Entanglement (a preview)
 * 48) Bell's theorem: the simplest version
 * 49) A quantum game
 * 50) The experiment of Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger
 * 51) Author(s)
 * 1) Author(s)

Appendices

 * 1) Probability
 * 2) Basic concepts
 * 3) Some problems
 * 4) Mathematical tools
 * 5) Elements of calculus
 * 6) A definite integral
 * 7) Differential calculus: a very brief introduction
 * 8) Taylor series
 * 9) The exponential function
 * 10) The indefinite integral
 * 11) Sine and cosine
 * 12) Complex numbers
 * 13) Vectors
 * 14) Fields
 * 15) Gradient
 * 16) Curl
 * 17) Divergence
 * 18) How to solve problems in quantum physics
 * 19) The ABCs of relativity
 * 20) The principle of relativity
 * 21) Lorentz transformations (general form)
 * 22) Composition of velocities
 * 23) Proper time
 * 24) An invariant velocity
 * 25) The case against K>0
 * 26) The case against K=0
 * 27) The actual Lorentz transformations
 * 28) Lorentz contraction and time dilation
 * 29) 4-Vectors