The Principles of Quantum Mechanics - Quiz
A) Russian B) Spanish C) Italian D) Chinese
A) Ivanenko B) Dirac C) Bronstein D) Tamm
A) Vladimir Fock and Douglas Hartree B) Igor Tamm and Peter Kapitza C) Matvei Bronstein and Dmitri Ivanenko D) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
A) Igor Tamm B) Dmitri Ivanenko C) Matvei Bronstein D) Peter Kapitza
A) Igor Tamm and Peter Kapitza B) Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock C) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga D) Werner Bloch and Felix Bloch
A) Ivanenko B) Bronstein C) Dirac D) Tamm
A) Yoshio Nishina B) Werner Bloch C) Matvei Bronstein D) Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
A) Matvei Bronstein B) The publishers C) Dmitri Ivanenko D) The translators
A) Douglas Hartree B) Yoshio Nishina C) Werner Bloch D) Vladimir Fock
A) Felix Bloch B) Matvei Bronstein C) Max Jammer D) Werner Bloch
A) Thermodynamics B) Solid state physics C) Nuclear physics D) The principle of superposition
A) Dynamical variables and observables B) Astrophysics C) Chaos theory D) Fluid dynamics
A) Perturbation theory B) Collision problems C) Representations D) Theory of radiation
A) Elementary applications B) The quantum conditions C) The equations of motion D) Quantum electrodynamics
A) Perturbation theory B) Relativistic theory of the electron C) The equations of motion D) Collision problems
A) Theory of radiation B) Systems containing several similar particles C) Representations D) Elementary applications
A) The quantum conditions B) Quantum electrodynamics C) Perturbation theory D) Collision problems
A) The equations of motion B) The principle of superposition C) Representations D) Collision problems
A) Relativistic theory of the electron B) Quantum electrodynamics C) Systems containing several similar particles D) Elementary applications
A) Perturbation theory B) Quantum electrodynamics C) Dynamical variables and observables D) Theory of radiation
A) The quantum conditions B) Relativistic theory of the electron C) The equations of motion D) Collision problems
A) Quantum electrodynamics B) Relativistic theory of the electron C) Theory of radiation D) Perturbation theory
A) The mathematical rules for classical mechanics B) The stage, the tone, and much of the language of the quantum-mechanical revolution C) The foundation for modern computer science D) The standard nomenclature for thermodynamics
A) 3,000 B) 1,000 C) 500 D) 10,000
A) GTTI B) Copenhagen Press C) Cambridge University Press D) Springer Verlag
A) Capitalism B) Dialectical materialism C) Utilitarianism D) Empiricism
A) The Many-Worlds interpretation B) Ensemble interpretation C) The Copenhagen interpretation D) De Broglie-Bohm interpretation
A) J. Robert Oppenheimer B) Felix Bloch C) Matvei Bronstein D) Wolfgang Pauli
A) That the mathematics used were entirely incorrect B) That it was written in too many languages C) That it was too easy for beginners D) That Dirac did not refer much to the original research literature
A) Josiah Willard Gibbs B) Hermann Weyl C) Isaac Newton D) John von Neumann
A) Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik B) Principia C) Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics D) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
A) It was overly formal B) It lacked mathematical rigor C) It was too short D) It contained no equations
A) An indispensable standard work B) A complete failure C) An introductory textbook for children D) An overly formal treatise
A) It was too short B) It relied too heavily on Russian translations C) It used too many illustrations D) It was too distant from experiments
A) Elementary and simplistic B) Highly reliable and essential C) Confusing and outdated D) Flawed and overly mathematical
A) A simple guide for high school students B) A purely mathematical exercise C) A flawed and chaotic collection of notes D) An astonishingly complete and coherent treatise
A) Josiah Willard Gibbs B) Hermann Weyl C) Isaac Newton D) John von Neumann
A) Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics B) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics C) Principia D) Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik
A) It was only available in Russian B) It was not suitable as an introduction to quantum mechanics C) It contained dangerous political propaganda D) It was filled with calculation errors
A) Charles Galton Darwin B) Bernard Koopman C) John Lennard-Jones D) Paul Epstein
A) The use of the Russian language B) The excessive number of colorful illustrations C) The lack of concrete examples to illustrate the theory D) The high price of the publication
A) Abdus Salam and Eugene Wigner B) Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann C) Felix Bloch and Matvei Bronstein D) Paul Epstein and Werner Heisenberg
A) As the most logically perfect presentation of the subject B) As a mediocre introduction to mechanics C) As a confusing and unnecessary text D) As a purely experimental guide
A) A doorstop B) A pillow C) His companion D) A weapon in political debates
A) A fine work of art B) A boring historical record C) A flawed computer program D) A messy lecture transcript
A) They were banned B) They were seldom cited C) They were heavily cited D) They were rewritten frequently
A) More enthusiastic B) Indifferent C) Unaware D) More critical
A) Max Jammer B) John Gribbin C) Bernard Koopman D) Graham Farmelo
A) Eigenvalue and eigenfunction B) Quantum and superposition C) Action and reaction D) Velocity and acceleration
A) Latin B) German C) Russian D) French
A) Base value and base function B) Characteristic value and characteristic function C) Proper value and proper function D) Primary value and primary function
A) Igor Tamm and Peter Kapitza B) Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann C) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga D) Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock
A) δ B) π C) ω D) ψ
A) Creating an exposition in physics, treating mathematics as a tool B) Writing a popular science fiction novel C) Refuting the work of John von Neumann D) Establishing a rigorous new branch of pure mathematics
A) Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics B) Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik C) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics D) Principia
A) Isaac Newton B) Hermann Weyl C) John von Neumann D) Josiah Willard Gibbs
A) It was mathematically rigorous B) It was invented by John von Neumann C) It led to correct results D) It was approved by Albert Einstein
A) Max Jammer B) Bernard Koopman C) Laurent Schwartz D) Graham Farmelo
A) 1928 B) 1932 C) 1902 D) 1945
A) For eliminating it from quantum mechanics B) For translating it into Russian C) For thinking of it as the kernel of an integral transform D) For proving its mathematical rigor from axioms
A) It was too short to read in a day B) It contained too many computational exercises C) It was written entirely in German D) It was basically a transcript of Dirac's lectures at Cambridge
A) Longer lecture transcripts B) More political commentary C) Biographical information about Einstein D) A text that could teach them how to carry out computations
A) As a 'bible' of modern physics B) As an irrelevant historical artifact C) As a comic book D) As a flawed mathematical disaster
A) Richard Feynman B) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar C) Abdus Salam D) Eugene Wigner
A) Garrett Birkhoff and Bernard Koopman B) Abdus Salam and Eugene Wigner C) Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock D) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
A) Isaac Newton B) Hermann Weyl C) Josiah Willard Gibbs D) John von Neumann
A) Director of Quantum Studies B) Lucasian Professor of Mathematics C) Head of Mathematics D) Professor of Theoretical Physics
A) An obsolete manual from the 19th century B) One of their first introductions to the nascent scientific theory C) A political manifesto against capitalism D) A complete guide to building particle accelerators
A) Richard Feynman B) Laurent Schwartz C) Matvei Bronstein D) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
A) The Russian edition B) The first edition C) The second edition D) The German edition
A) The late 1930s B) The year 1950 C) The early twenty-first century D) World War II
A) John Gribbin B) Graham Farmelo C) Laurie M. Brown D) Max Jammer
A) Graham Farmelo B) Laurie M. Brown C) Bernard Koopman D) Max Jammer
A) Because it was written in obsolete Russian B) Because of Dirac's refusal to accept renormalization C) Because it lacked the chapter on quantum electrodynamics D) Because all copies had been destroyed
A) Something that merely 'swept infinities under the carpet' B) The greatest breakthrough of the twentieth century C) An essential foundation for quantum field theory D) A logically perfect mathematical tool
A) A banned procedure B) A standard tool C) An abandoned hypothesis D) A purely mathematical curiosity
A) 1930 B) 1935 C) 1947 D) 1925
A) Springer B) Cambridge University Press C) Elsevier D) Oxford University Press
A) 90 B) 82 C) 78 D) 85
A) 650 B) 1000 C) 785 D) 500
A) Diagrams B) Sections C) Equations D) Prefaces
A) Werner Heisenberg B) Peter Kapitza C) Erwin Schrödinger D) Ralph Fowler
A) Huygens principle B) Action principle C) Poisson brackets D) Linear integral equations
A) Lent terms B) Michaelmas terms C) Easter terms D) Summer terms
A) Gustav Kirchhoff B) Erwin Schrödinger C) Oliver Heaviside D) Cornelius Lanczos
A) Gustav Kirchhoff B) Oliver Heaviside C) Carl Eckart D) Eugene Wigner
A) Oliver Heaviside B) Peter Kapitza C) Gustav Kirchhoff D) Ralph Fowler
A) A wave B) A pulse C) A circuit D) An oscillation
A) h / 4\pi B) h / 2\pi C) 2\pi / h D) h / \pi
A) Proton B) Neutron C) Positron D) Photon
A) Carl Anderson B) Paul Dirac C) Wolfgang Pauli D) J. Robert Oppenheimer
A) 1930 B) 1935 C) 1939 D) 1958
A) The final chapter B) The first chapter C) The section on the action principle D) The preface
A) A list of symbols B) A list of authors C) A bibliography D) A list of equations
A) No B) Yes, in an appendix C) Yes, in the preface D) Yes, at the end of every chapter
A) A historical approach B) An axiomatic approach C) A formal approach D) A mathematical approach
A) Doctoral candidate B) Professor of physics C) Post-graduate student D) Postdoctoral researcher
A) Full professor B) Department head C) Doctoral candidate D) Undergraduate student
A) Lent terms (spring) B) Summer terms C) Easter terms D) Michaelmas terms (autumn)
A) 1947 B) 1935 C) 1967 D) 1958 |
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