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Heisenberg and the early days of quantum mechanics (1976) [pdf]
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- dang 2y agoWe changed the URL from https://physics.mcmaster.ca/phys3mm3/notes/FelixBlochPhysTodayDec1976b.pdf https://physics.mcmaster.ca/phys3mm3/notes/FelixBlochPhysTod... to one that seems to load more easily. Is the article available as a regular web page anywhere (i.e. not a pdf?) - if so, we can change it again.
- adtac 2y agoif you're on your phone and can't read the pdf, I ran it through an OCR: https://gist.github.com/adtac/d4baaa5b23344689cff42b9bf16554f6 https://gist.github.com/adtac/d4baaa5b23344689cff42b9bf16554... (no photos) I haven't verified that it's correct (there are a few benign artifacts at the very least), but it looks right content-wise
- sgdpk 2y agoGood read. It is also refreshing to read how Schrödinger came up with his equation even if it was not clear how to interpret it. He was attempting to formalize de Broglie's "particles as waves" concept, which, according to the article, "could obtain the quantization rules of Niels Bohr and Sommerfeld by demanding that an integer number of waves should be fitted along a stationary orbit." Schrödinger's equation put that claim on firm mathematical grounds. It gave correct predictions. But just what this new "wave function" was remained up to interpretation.
- rurban 2y agoHeisenberg's autobiography is much better