World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics - Vol. 28
SCHRÖDINGER'S MECHANICS
by David B Cook (Sheffield)
This volume presents some new perspectives on the quantum theory which go a good deal of the way towards resolving the persistent interpretational "paradoxes" which are such a feature of the theory. It also reiterates the view that the aim of science is knowledge of the autonomous structures and processes in nature and not primarily the generation of axiomatic deductive systems. Taking the view that one must distinguish between development of mathematical models and mere sophisication, this volume develops the link of continuity between the methods of Classical Physics and those of the quantum theory, and gives a consistent interpretation of the results of quantum theory.
Contents:
- General Orientation
- Classical Mechanics
- Transition to
Schrödinger's Mechanics
- Interpretation
- Equations and Identities
- A Posteriori Connections
- Conclusions
- Appendices: The Classical Variation Principle
- Vector Potentials
- Momentum "Operators"
- Ensembles and Abstract Objects
Readership: Physicists, chemists and applied mathematicians.
A potentially important work and surprisingly accessible to capable graduate students, this volume might be of interest to a few undergraduate libraries where theorists are at hand to interpret it to ambitious young physicists or philosophers.
| 164pp |
Pub. date: Jan 1989 |
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