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Everything around us - trees, buildings, food, light, water, air and even ourselves - is composed of minute particles, smaller than a nanometre (a billionth of a metre). Quantum physics is the science of these particles and without it, none of our electronic devices, from smartphones to computers and microwave ovens, would exist.
But quantum physics also pushes us to the very boundaries of what we know about science, reality and the structure of the universe. The world of quantum physics is an amazing place, where quantum particles can do weird and wonderful things, acting totally unlike the objects we experience in day-to-day life. How can atoms exist in two places at once? And just how can a cat be dead and alive at the same time? Find out more with this entertaining illustrated guide to the fascinating, mysterious world of quantum physics.
Topics include: quanta, light, waves and particles, mass, photons, atoms, molecules, spectra, wave-particle duality, matter and antimatter, Schrödinger's cat, the Uncertainty Principle, probability waves, quantum entanglement, radioactivity and quarks.
Contents
Introduction 3
Sir Isaac Newton 5
What we can do with classical physics 6
Planck's quanta 7
The mystery of light 8
Maxwell and light waves 9
Einstein and light 10
Photons 12
Waves or particles? 14
The structure of the atom 16
The atom 18
The periodic table 20
Molecules 22
Atomic spectra 24
The quantized atom 26
The double-slit experiment 28
Matter waves 30
Schrödinger's cat 31
The uncertainty principle 32
The mystery of antimatter 34
Quantum entanglement 35
Radioactivity 36
The tunnel effect 38
Elementary particles 40
Things we do every day using modern physics 42
Things that we will do someday with modern physics 43
Quantum timeline 44
A mathematical universe 46
Acknowledgements 48
