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The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Physics and Astronomy) 2nd Edition

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The Quantum Challenge, Second Edition, is an engaging and thorough treatment of the extraordinary phenomena of quantum mechanics and of the enormous challenge they present to our conception of the physical world. Traditionally, the thrill of grappling with such issues is reserved for practicing scientists, while physical science, mathematics, and engineering students are often isolated from these inspiring questions. This book was written to remove this isolation.

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076372470X
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978-0763724702
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2nd
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Jones & Bartlett Learning
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August 11, 2005
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English
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7.36 x 0.82 x 9.34 inches
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296 pages
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George Greenstein is the Sidney Dillon professor of astronomy at Amherst College. His research has centered on relativistic astrophysics, and he is currently interested in non-traditional approaches to science education.

Arthur G. Zajonc is professor of physics at Amherst College. His research has focused on laser and atomic physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and the relationship between science and the humanities.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jones & Bartlett Learning; 2nd edition (August 11, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 076372470X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0763724702
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.36 x 0.82 x 9.34 inches

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Arthur Zajonc is professor of physics at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1978. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. He has been visiting professor and research scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and the universities of Rochester, and Hannover. He has been Fulbright professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
His research has included studies in electron-atom physics, parity violation in atoms, quantum optics, the experimental foundations of quantum physics, and the relationship between science, the humanities, and the contemplative traditions. He has written extensively on Goethe's science work.
He is author of the book: Catching the Light (Bantam & Oxford UP), co-author of The Quantum Challenge (Jones & Bartlettt), and co-editor of Goethe's Way of Science (SUNY Press). In 1997 he served as scientific coordinator for the Mind and Life dialogue published as The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama (Oxford UP). He again organized the 2002 dialogue with the Dalai Lama, "The Nature of Matter, the Nature of Life," and acted as moderator at MIT for the "Investigating the Mind" Mind and Life dialogue in 2003. The proceedings of the Mind and Life-MIT meeting were published under the title The Dalai Lama at MIT (Harvard UP) which he co-edited. Most recently he is author of the books, Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love (Lindisfarne Press) on contemplative pedagogy, and a volume on the youth program PeaceJam, We Speak as One: Twelve Nobel Laureates Share their Vision for Peace.
He currently is an advisor to the World Future Council, and directs the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, which supports appropriate inclusion of contemplative methods in higher education. He has also been a co-founder of the Kira Institute, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society, president/chair of the Lindisfarne Association, and was a senior program director at the Fetzer Institute.
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Helen

excellent for first year grad students

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2006

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This book is great for understanding QM conceptually. You should have studied QM at least at the undergraduate level already - the authors assume you already know the math. I'm a first year grad student in electrical engineering and the level is perfect for me (that is, challenging and slow to read, but very rewarding and not too frustrating). The authors go over a lot of spiffy experiments that have taken place in the last 50 years. They give you the experimental schematic, tell you the "expected result", give you charts of the actual result, and discuss what it means. As an engineer, this style of learning is great for me, because there's a lot of pretty diagrams and plots.

The authors also teach you how to apply the math you learned in your undergrad to actually analyze real world situations. For example, they analyze scattering events inside a fission reactor using the uncertainty principle and conclude *warning: spoilers* that the uncertainty in the position of a particle in a fission reactor is one hundred times bigger than the cross section of the nucleus it is to strike. (This is a fundamental uncertainty due to the Heisenberg Principle, not due to faulty measuring equipment). This means that we cannot visualize a fission chain reaction as these neat little balls that bounce around, splitting nuclei apart. It means that we cannot be sure what is going on inside at all. I thought that was neat.

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gengogakusha

Fantastic book for gaining real understanding of many key QM experimental results

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2009

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As others have said, this is by far the best book for gaining a solid understanding of many key experimental results in QM until about 2002.

I am using this book for self-study and have found that it complements standard undergraduate textbooks on quantum mechanics very well. The level of the book is between (typically misleading) popular accounts and highly technical textbook or journal article accounts. As such, it assumes you have some background in calculus and modern physics. The only textbook I am aware of that deals with more recent experiments is Auletta, Fortunato and Parisis Quantum Mechanics . This textbook, however, makes significantly greater demands on the reader (cf. my Amazon review).

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Required Reading for Educated Citizens fo the 21st Century!

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I am a professional physicist working in industry today; my PhD research was in quantum field theory. I am also a philosopher of and now amateur researcher in quantum physics foundations. I purchased this book on the recommendation of a colleague some years ago, and since have read it cover-to-cover three times. This book is well written with citations and reproduction of real data directly relevant to the core of what Bohr and Einstein debated nearly a century ago. Real data from real experiments are connected to these questions, showing that Bohr was remarkably correct in his foresight. This book nicely documents one of the two most profound teachings to human-kind in the 20th century. It does a superb job of teaching the real meaning of quantum mechanics in technical depth that is satisfying to the expert, and yet provides clarity that can help the curious philosopher to appreciate the findings. For all of my students this is required reading.

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father o flanagan

Well yes--

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 17, 2017

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This book is indeed a Challenge to the mathematically illiterate, well after all it IS physics (which is not Rocket Science- a much simpler subject)
However, the author manages to make a comprehensible (well almost) argument if I simply accept that the maths is right. The style is inviting and so would probably be a welcome addition to the library of undergraduate physics students. But not bedtime reading for normal mortals.

Francisco Coutinho

The book is excellent. It describes the non-intuitive aspects of QM very well

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The book is a must have. Excellent, It describes difficult experiments to test difficult to accept classically. So, your understanding of QM gets much deeper

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