Night and the City by Gene Tierney

Night and the City by Gene Tierney

The aim of this book is to explain the basic concepts and phenomena of quantum mechanics by means of visualization. Computer-generated illustrations in color are used extensively throughout the text, helping to establish the relation between quantum mechanics--wave functions, interference, atomic structure, and so forth--and classical physics--point mechanics, statistical mechanics, and wave optics. Even more important, by studying the pictures in parallel with the text, readers develop an intuition for such notoriously abstract phenomena as
- the tunnel effect
- excitation and decay of metastable states
- wave-packet motion within a well
- systems of distinguishable and indistinguishable particles
- free wave packets and scattering in 3 dimensions
- angular-momentum decomposition
- stationary bound states in various 3-dimensional potentials
- hybrid states
- Kepler motion of wave packets in the Coulomb field
- spin and magnetic resonance

Illustrations from experiments in a variety of fields, including chemistry, and molecular, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics, underline the basic as well as the practical importance of quantum mechanics.

In the present, fourth edition all computer graphics are presented in full color. It also contains additional physics topics such as hybridization.

Praise for Previous Editions

The book is highly recommended as a complement to any standard textbook in quantum mechanics, but it will also be valuable to all of us who studied quantum mechanics without the pictures. -- International Journal of Quantum Chemistry

This book would be an excellent basis for the study of special topics in a quantum physics course. Most serious students of physics and all of their teachers will want to consider having this orderly and graphic outline of introductory quantum theory at their fingertips. -- American Journal of Physics

Their aim is the presentation of the 'principal ideas of wave mechanics' in such a way that students can build a quantum intuition out of their graphics. -- Scientific American

This is a unique book. It does not provide a complete course in quantum theory, but as a companion work of reference it should be quite useful to students in providing insights into the dynamical structure of the theory. -- Nature

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EAN	0715515153515
Title	Night and the City
Release date	2015-08-04
Format	Blu-ray
Region Code	1
Running time	95 minutes
Studio	CRITERION COLLECTION: NIGHT & THE CITY
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Actor	Ada Reeve
Actor	Mike Mazurki
Actor	Gene Tierney
Actor	Richard Widmark
Actor	Herbert Lom
Director	Jules Dassin
Actor	Hugh Marlowe
Actor	Googie Withers
Actor	Charles Farrell
Actor	Stanislaus Zbyszko
Actor	Francis L. Sullivan