God And Science Commentary on Darwin, Marx, Freud, Tillich, Chardin, creationism, evolution, quantum mechanics from Charles Henderson's book. Most of the chapters are available online. http://www.crosscurrents.org/godand.htm
Extractions: Age of Science God and Science The Hypertext Edition The first edition of God and Science was published in 1986 by John Knox Press. It will appear here in a hypertext format, revised and expanded to encompass more recent developments in both science and theology. In addition, the hypertext edition will be enhanced by graphics, illustrations, and links to websites that will give the reader additional resources to deepen understanding of major themes, names and topics mentioned in the book. As one reviewer wrote about the book, "I could envision myself trying to design a course (around it). ... I think the book has high educational value. I enjoyed reading it to the point that I almost couldn't stop once I had started." (Harry W. Ellis Professor of Physics). I believe that the Internet enhances both the educational value and the enjoyment that may be found in this work. If you'd like to be informed of additional chapters as they appear at this site, or would like to join in conversation both online and in realtime about the topics covered within these pages, please use the Mail Drop below to indicate your interest. Charles Henderson, Executive Director
Quantum Mechanics Introductory Tutorial Fundamentals of quantum mechanics for the layman interactive flash tutorial. Take our Amazing Interactive Flash tutorial on the http://www.science-spirit.org/quantumtutorial/quantum.html
The Periodic Table Of The Elements A set of notes on fermions and bosons, including a review of angular momentum in quantum mechanics. http://www.physics.nmt.edu/~raymond/classes/ph13xbook/node199.html
Extractions: Next: Atomic Spectra Up: Atoms Previous: The Hydrogen Atom Contents Figure 18.2: Energy levels of the hydrogen atom. Energy increases upward and angular momentum increases to the right. The numbers above each level indicate the spin orientation times the orbital orientation degeneracy for each level. The numbers at the right show the total degeneracy for each value of . Only the first three values of are shown. The energy levels of the hydrogen atom whose energies are given by equation ( ) are actually degenerate , in that each energy has more than one state associated with it. Three extra degrees of freedom are associated with angular momentum, expressed by the quantum numbers , and . For energy level , the orbital angular momentum quantum number can take on the values . Thus, for the ground state, , the only possible value of is zero. For a given value of , there are possible values of the orbital component quantum number, . Finally, there are two possible values of the spin orientation quantum number, . Thus, for the
Lie Groups And Quantum Mechanics Lie Groups and quantum mechanics. Michael Weiss. Unitary Matrices $SU(n)$; Picturing the Correspondences; Topology. quantum mechanics Twostate Systems http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/lie/lie.html
Extractions: Sorry, you need a Java-enabled browser to see the simulation. At the top of the applet you will see a graph of the potential, along with horizontal lines showing the energy levels. By default it is an infinite square well (zero everywhere inside, infinite at the edges). Below that you will see the probability distribution of the particle's position, oscillating back and forth in a combination of two states. Below the particle's position you will see a graph of its momentum. At the bottom of the screen is a set of phasors showing the magnitude and phase of all the possible states. To view a state, move the mouse over its energy level on the potential graph. To select a single state, click on it. You may also select a single state by picking one of the phasors at the bottom and double-clicking on it. Or, you may click on the phasor and drag its value to modify the magnitude and phase. In this way, you can create a combination of states. You may select a different potential from the Setup menu at the top right. Full Directions.
Schrödinger: Mopac 2002 Program MOPAC 2000 is a generalpurpose semiempirical quantum mechanics package for the study of chemical properties and reactions in gas, solution or solid-state. http://www.schrodinger.com/Products/mopac.html
Extractions: Programs Glide Jaguar Liaison ... Order Now The most widely used semiempirical quantum mechanics program throughout the world MOPAC is a general-purpose semiempirical quantum mechanics package for the study of chemical properties and reactions in gas, solution or solid-state. MOPAC directly predicts numerous chemical and physical properties such as Gibbs free energies, activation energies, reaction paths, dipole moments, non-linear optical properties and infrared spectra. It is also used as the basis of quantitative structure-property (or activity) relationships (QSAR), to predict a wide variety of biological and other properties such as carcinogenicity, vapor pressure, water solubility, and reaction rates. Macromolecules : very fast, patented, linear-scaling MOZYME optimizes proteins and DNA Materials : d-orbitals, crystals, geometry in electric fields, NLO, 2D/3D periodic boundaries Polymers : band structures, phonon spectra, Young's modulus, tensile strength Dyes : UV spectra prediction, intersystem crossing, excited states in solution Synthesis : thermodynamics, kinetics, transition-states, reaction paths, solvation, catalysis
Science Line - Resources - Physics & Astronomy - Quantum Mechanics Technology Engineering. quantum mechanics. What are quanta? Could you explain quantum mechanics? How do gravitons escape from black holes? http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/phys/quantummechanics/quantummechanics.htm
Quantum Physics Quackery (Skeptical Inquirer January 1997) Certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, the revolutionary theory developed early in the century to account for the anomalous behavior of light and atoms http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html
Darcs Utility based on the author's theory of patches in which they are likened to operators in quantum mechanics. Additionally, every copy of the source is a full repository. Written in Haskell and released under the GNU GPL. http://abridgegame.org/darcs/
Extractions: [introduction] [mailing list] [documentation] [darcs wiki] by David Roundy David's Advanced Revision Control System is yet another replacement for CVS . It is written in Haskell, and has been used on Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Microsoft Windows. Darcs includes a cgi script , which can be used to view the contents of your repository. If you want to learn more about darcs, read the manual . The manual is also available as a Postscript file, and as one large HTML file . If you have any questions about darcs, please ask the mailing list . You can also check out the [darcs wiki] which has advice from other darcs users. You can download darcs as a tarball . In order to compile darcs, you will need ghc 5.04, or later, and a recent version of libcurl . It is recommended that you use ghc 6.0 or later, as ghc 5.04 support is not as well tested. If you already have darcs, you can get a copy of the latest code using darcs itself: darcs get verbose partial http://abridgegame.org/repos/darcs If you want a complete copy of the darcs repository or are running a copy of darcs older than version 0.9.16, you should leave out the partial flag.
PhysicsWeb - Quantum Mechanics With Single Atoms And Photons quantum mechanics with single atoms and photons Feature December 2000. Shortly afterwards quantum mechanics was applied to molecules and then to solids. http://physicsweb.org/article/world/13/12/10/1
Extractions: Feature: December 2000 Some 100 years after the birth of quantum mechanics, physicists are still learning more about the interactions between light and matter. One of the driving forces behind the development of quantum mechanics at the start of the last century was the need to understand why atoms only emit light at certain wavelengths. Shortly afterwards quantum mechanics was applied to molecules and then to solids. Moving in the other direction, it was also applied to predict the properties of fundamental particles, notably the electron. Quantum mechanics has been remarkably successful in all these realms. Indeed, quantum electrodynamics - the theory of how light and matter interact - is the most powerful and accurate theory in all of physics. But even more remarkable is the fact that quantum theory still continues to fascinate researchers. It might be thought that 100 years after it was developed, there would be little that we did not know about quantum mechanics. Nothing could be further from the truth. Interest in quantum mechanics - both theoretical and experimental - is probably greater now that it ever has been. In this article we will concentrate on just one aspect of the ongoing love affair between physicists and quantum mechanics - experiments in which single atoms are trapped inside a small box or cavity containing, on average, just one photon. Atomic physicists are now able to observe the motion of a single atom in real time with high spatial and temporal resolution, to reconstruct its trajectory and to explore hitherto unknown light forces. The realization of such "single-photon optical tweezers" is opening up new possibilities in the control of the internal and external quantum states of atoms, the cooling of molecules and quantum information processing.
[quant-ph/0004090] Path Integral Methods And Applications These lectures are intended as an introduction to the technique of path integrals and their applications in physics. The audience is mainly firstyear graduate students, and it is assumed that the reader has a good foundation in quantum mechanics. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0004090
Extractions: These lectures are intended as an introduction to the technique of path integrals and their applications in physics. The audience is mainly first-year graduate students, and it is assumed that the reader has a good foundation in quantum mechanics. No prior exposure to path integrals is assumed, however. The path integral is a formulation of quantum mechanics equivalent to the standard formulations, offering a new way of looking at the subject which is, arguably, more intuitive than the usual approaches. Applications of path integrals are as vast as those of quantum mechanics itself, including the quantum mechanics of a single particle, statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics and quantum field theory. After an introduction including a very brief historical overview of the subject, we derive a path integral expression for the propagator in quantum mechanics, including the free particle and harmonic oscillator as examples. We then discuss a variety of applications, including path integrals in multiply-connected spaces, Euclidean path integrals and statistical mechanics, perturbation theory in quantum mechanics and in quantum field theory, and instantons via path integrals.
NetSci: Quantum Mechanics Software Listing Welcome to NetSci s List of Software for quantum mechanics. AMPAC is a semiempirical quantum mechanics program developed by Michael Dewer and coworkers. http://www.netsci.org/Resources/Software/Modeling/QM/
Extractions: List of Software for Quantum Mechanics Notice: The Software Section of NetSci is accessed by hundreds of scientists every week. Our goal is to make this resource as comprehensive as possible. If your software program is not included, please send e-mail with a brief description, the categories under which your program should appear, the platforms supported, and contact information. For programs currently listed in NetSci , please check the table and description and notify us of any changes or additions. A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L ... X, Y, Z - A, B, C - ABCRATE ACES II is an ab initio Molecular Orbital program which uses many-body perturbation theory to derive correlation energy. Contact: Rodney Bartlett
Physics Problems, Modern Quantum Mechanics, Sakurai Physics Problems, Modern quantum mechanics. 2nd Ed., JJ Sakurai. Click here if your browser does not support frames. Up to Physics Problems Main Page. http://www.phys.uri.edu/~edward/Sakurai/sframe.html
Lothar M. Schmitt Describes mainly research activities by Lothar M. Schmitt in Mathematics (Functional Analysis), Computer Science (Genetic Algorithms), and Physics (quantum mechanics). http://www.geocities.com/lmschmitt/
Extractions: I list several strong requirements for what I would consider a sensible interpretation of quantum mechanics and I discuss two simple theorems. One, as far as I know, is new; the other was only noted a few years ago. Both have important implications for such a sensible interpretation. My talk will not clear everything up; indeed, you may conclude that it has not cleared anything up. But I hope it will provide a different perspective from which to view some old and vexing puzzles (or, if you believe nothing needs to be cleared up, some ancient verities.) References and citations for this submission:
Measurement In Quantum Mechanics FAQ Measurement in quantum mechanics FAQ. Summary Describes the measurement problem in quantum mechanics and physical and metaphysical approaches to its solution. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/physics-faq/measurement-in-qm/
Extractions: Usenet FAQs Search Web FAQs Documents ... RFC Index sci.physics alt.sci.physics.new-theories paul@mtnmath.com (Paul Budnik) Keywords: FAQ quantum-mechanics measurement X-Posting-Frequency: posted around the 1st of each month X-Content-Currency: This FAQ is updated monthly. Summary: Describes the measurement problem in quantum mechanics and physical and metaphysical approaches to its solution. User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.6 (sun4u)) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:57:55 GMT Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 (Perl 5.004) Archive-name: physics-faq/measurement-in-qm Measurement in quantum mechanics FAQ Maintained by Paul Budnik, paul@mtnmath.com, http://www.mtn- math.com This FAQ describes the measurement problem in QM and approaches to its solution. Please help make it more complete. See ``What is needed'' for details. Web version: http://www.mtnmath.com/faq/meas-qm.html 1. About this FAQ Last modified August 5, 1998 (section 7) The general sci.physics FAQ does a good job of dealing with technical questions in most areas of physics. However it has no material on interpretations of QM which are among the most frequently discussed topics in sci.physics. Hence there is a need for this supplemental FAQ. This document is probably out of date if you are reading it more than 30 days after the date which appears in the header. This FAQ is on the web at: http://www.mtnmath.com/faq/meas-qm.html You can get it by e-mail or FTP from rtfm.mit.edu. By FTP, look for the file: /pub/usenet/news.answers/physics-faq/measurement-in-qm By e-mail send a message to
2001: A Spacetime Odyssey Two theories revolutionized the 20th century view of space and time Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and quantum mechanics. Their union has spawned elementary particle theories with extra spacetime dimensions, the inflationary model of bigbang cosmology, dark matter in the universe, radiation from quantum black holes and the fuzzy spacetime geometry of superstrings and M-theory. http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/sto2001/
Extractions: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Two theories revolutionized the 20th century view of space and time: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Their union has spawned elementary particle theories with extra spacetime dimensions, the inflationary model of big-bang cosmology, dark matter in the universe, radiation from quantum black holes and the fuzzy spacetime geometry of superstrings and M-theory. These developments, derived from the 19th century mathematics of Riemannian geometry and Lie groups, have in their turn inspired new directions in the pure mathematics of topology and knot theory. In view of the mission of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics to provide a venue for interdisciplinary studies in the mathematical sciences, this Inaugural Conference will bring together Astronomers, Cosmologists, Particle Physicists and Mathematicians to share their different perspectives on the 21st century view of spacetime. John Bahcall (IAS)
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HOME A second year course introducing special relativity and quantum mechanics. All of the lecture notes are posted online. http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html
