Rae A.I.M. Quantum Physics: A Beginner's Guide

Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2008. — 135 p. — ISBN: 1851683690.The year 2005 is the ‘World Year of Physics’. It marks the centenary of the publication of three papers by Albert Einstein during a few months in 1905. The most famous of these is probably the third, which set out the theory of relativity, while the second paper provided definitive evidence for the (then controversial) idea that matter was composed of atoms. Both had a profound effect on the development of physics during the rest of the twentieth century and beyond, but it is Einstein’s first
paper that led to quantum physics.Quantum physics is not rocket science
Waves and particles
Power from the quantum
Metals and insulators
Semiconductors and computer chips
Superconductivity
Spin doctoring
What does it all mean?
Conclusions