Feynman Simplified Part 3: Quantum Mechanics

This book explores one of science’s greatest achievements — the theory of quantum mechanics, as taught by its most brilliant professor, Richard Feynman. Feynman Simplified Part 3 makes his genius accessible to mere mortals, and extends this adventure to the remarkable discoveries made in the half-century since the Feynman Lectures.

Quantum mechanics is rarely taught well in introductory physics courses, largely because this challenging subject was not well taught to most of today’s instructors. Few had the opportunity to learn quantum mechanics from someone who understood it profoundly; almost none learned it from one of its creators. Here more than anywhere else, Feynman excels. Here more than anywhere else, Feynman Simplified can help you learn from the very best, but at a humane pace.

This book covers all of Volume 2 of the Feynman Lectures, including quantization, particle-wave duality, indeterminacy and the uncertainty principle, probabilities and amplitudes, wave functions and Schrödinger’s equation, fermion and boson statistics, particle-exchange forces, barrier penetration, quantum operators and matrices, semiconductors, superconductivity, atomic electron states and the Periodic Table, and symmetry of natural laws.

Feynman Simplified Part 3 extends our exploration to modern elementary particle physics, conservation laws and violations, entanglement, quantum teleportation and computing, the EPR paradox, Bell’s inequalities, the meaning of reality, and alternative interpretations of quantum theory.