{"product_id":"night-and-the-city-dvd-0715515153515","title":"Night and the City","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e- the tunnel effect \u003cbr\u003e- excitation and decay of metastable states \u003cbr\u003e- wave-packet motion within a well \u003cbr\u003e- systems of distinguishable and indistinguishable particles \u003cbr\u003e- free wave packets and scattering in 3 dimensions \u003cbr\u003e- angular-momentum decomposition \u003cbr\u003e- stationary bound states in various 3-dimensional potentials \u003cbr\u003e- hybrid states \u003cbr\u003e- Kepler motion of wave packets in the Coulomb field \u003cbr\u003e- spin and magnetic resonance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIllustrations 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the present, fourth edition all computer graphics are presented in full color. It also contains additional physics topics such as hybridization.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Previous Editions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. --\u003ci\u003e International Journal of Quantum Chemistry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003ci\u003e -- American Journal of Physics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir 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.\u003ci\u003e -- Scientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003ci\u003e -- Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49697243103505,"sku":"DVDB00XV31TKSVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53419727814929,"sku":"CINB00XV31TKSVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B00XV31TKS.jpg?v=1750906462","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/night-and-the-city-dvd-0715515153515","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}