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Unit 10: Waves, Particles and Atoms
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit offered an introduction to quantum theory presented in a single volume for teachers and students. The main work was theoretical. Many of the arguments were presented as a chain of questions.
Contents
*Introduction: the quantum revolution
Part One: Photons
Part Two: Electrons
Part Three: Waves in boxes
Part Four: The scope of wave mechanics
*Appendix: The Compton effect - a photo-electric game of billiards
*More questions
*Answers
*Lists of films, film loops, books, and apparatus
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