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