Main Topics: Quantum Theory and the Uncertainty Principle
INTRODUCTION
Topic Index:
- Introduction
- Early Developments in Atomic Theory
- Quanta and Wave-Particle Duality
- Probability Waves and Complementarity
- Superposition, Interference and Decoherence
- Quantum Tunnelling and the Uncertainty Principle
- Nonlocality and Entanglement
- Spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
- Conclusion
Quantum theory (otherwise known as quantum physics or quantum mechanics) is one of the two main planks of modern physics, along with general relativity, and between them the two theories claim to explain virtually everything about the universe. General relativity gives us our picture of the very big (space-time and gravity), while quantum theory gives us our picture of the very small