I kinda need a book or something I can use at home... I'm pretty sure that my highschool doesn't teach quantum physics to 10th graders. Oh, and it needs to be cheap... I'm a minimum wage worker... sort of...
2007-07-22 04:47:30 · 7 answers · asked by rokkon 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Check out "what is quantum mechanics". It is suitable for High school level of education.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Quantum-Mechanics-Physics-Adventure/dp/0964350416
2007-07-22 04:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by sara 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first book I would start with is:
- Max Born, "Atomic Physics"
It's an old book, but it covers the phenomena in a comprehensible way. Without understanding this, the abstractions used in quantum physics will be incomprehensible. Born was one of the pioneers.
The second book: Hmmph, that's much harder! It depends on your degree of mathematical sophistication - unfortunately, quantum mechanics is an inherently mathematical area!
Why don't you start with Born? That's still quite a bit of reading. When you've finished that, we could talk about further reading depending on what you've understood.
2007-07-22 05:40:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably not worth buying, but The Feynmann Lectures (Vol 1) has an excellent chapter on the two slit experiment. It explains the basic paradox at the heart of the theory exactly. There's a bit of maths, but nothing worse than y^2 = (a+b)^2 - that sort of thing. You can probably find it in a library, it's pretty famous.
2007-07-24 07:25:04 · answer #3 · answered by simon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is very good. A new book The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden is also very good and is probably the more simple of the two. Good Reading!
2007-07-22 17:04:02 · answer #4 · answered by Sherri H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before one would study complicated theory ,it is necessary to really understand Classical Physics.
A classic book on quatum physics is the one written by Paul Linus.
2007-07-22 05:57:54 · answer #5 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly the complete giude to quantum mechanics
2007-07-22 06:28:55 · answer #6 · answered by Austin B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course there would be; except for those who were born knowing it, everyone is inexperienced.
2007-07-22 04:55:33 · answer #7 · answered by hopflower 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋