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“The Boundaries of Nature: Special and general relativity and quantum mechanics, a second course in physics:” Edwin F. Taylor’s acceptance speech for the 1998 Oersted Medal presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers, 6 January 1998

 

作者: Edwin F. Taylor,  

 

期刊: American Journal of Physics  (AIP Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 66, issue 5  

页码: 369-376

 

ISSN:0002-9505

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1119/1.18875

 

出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers

 

关键词: 01.10;01.40;03.30;03.65;04.

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

Public hunger for relativity and quantum mechanics is insatiable, and we should use it selectively but shamelessly to attract students, most of whom will not become physics majors, but all of whom can experience “deep physics.” Science, engineering, and mathematics students, indeed anyone comfortable with calculus, can now delve deeply into special and general relativity and quantum mechanics. Big chunks of general relativity require only calculus if one starts with the metric describing spacetime around Earth or black hole. Expressions for energy and angular momentum follow, along with orbit predictions for particles and light. Feynman’s Sum Over Paths quantum theory simply commands the electron:Explore all paths.Students can model this command with the computer, pointing and clicking to tell the electron which paths to explore; wave functions and bound states arise naturally. A second full-year course in physics covering special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics would have wide appeal—and might also lead to significant advancements in upper-level courses for the physics major.

 

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