The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics

Conventions, Abbreviations, Symbols. 1. Themes. Appendix DIR: Paul Dirac. 2. O Light Divine. Appendix FOU: Fourier Analysis. Appendix FRE: Frequency. Appendix MEC: Mechanism. 3. The Young Experiment (1801) Appendix GED: Gedanken Experiments. 4. A Whiff of Ether (1887). Appendix ABE: Aberration. Appendix RIT: Ritz Stars. Appendix PDX: Paradox and Antinomy. 5. Prof. Planck is Desperate (1901). Appendix PLA: Max Planck. Appendix STA: Standing Waves. 6. The Photoelectric Effect (1902). 7. Dr. Einstein's Light Arrows (1905). 8. Young Revisited (1909). 9. The Nuclear Atom (1904-1912). Appendix SPH: Spheres. 10. Bohr's Atom (1903-1925). Appendix ACC: Accelerated Charges. 12. A Princely Postulate (1924). Appendix ENE: Energy of an Electron. 13. Realism and Other Isms. 14. Inventing the Wave Equation (1926). Appendix WEL: Well-Behaved Waves. Appendix CMP: Completeness. 15. Collapsing the Wave. Appendix HEI: Werner Heisenberg. Appendix COM: Commutativity. 16. Copenhagen Takes Over (1925-?). Appendix BOH: Niels Bohr. 17. EPR (1935) and EPR-B. Appendix LIT: Lightcones. Appendix PAU: Wolfgang Pauli. 18. Bell's Thunderbolt (1964). 19. The Toll of Bell. Appendix SCH: Schrödinger's Cat. Appendix TIM: Troublesome Time. 20. Envoi. References. Name Index. Subject Index.