Quantum mechanics historical perspectives

It does not provide much historical perspective on the development of quantum mechanics. Subjects such as the photoelectric effect, black-body radiation, the dual nature of electrons and photons, and the Davisson and Germer experiments are not even discussed. 

Quantum Mechanics A Historical Perspective Kent A. Peacock... 

This chapter has a threefold mission to outline dimensional scaling concepts and methods, in qualitative fashion to survey exploratory applications thus far made to archetype problems of atomic and molecular physics, especially electronic structure and to highlight some opportunities and challenges. Curious visitors or prospective recruits to this young field will find roots and branches that extend to many other fields, some far distant from chemical physics. At present, however, the directly pertinent literature consists of only about 80 papers. These are listed here in an annotated bibliography [1-84] which also supplies some historical perspective. A complementary tour of elementary quantum mechanics in D-dimensions is provided in the next chapter. 

Very extensive computations have been carried out on the dynamics of reactions of the type A+BC. They are either founded on classical or on quantum mechanics, are either to be considered exact or involving more or less drastic approximations and have been based either in the real three dimensional world or in somewhat artificial spaces of lower dimensionality. These computations are thus attempts to solve the three-body problem more or less accurately. Other Chapters in this book extensively review this subject [41]. The papers, presented at a meeting celebrating "Fifty Years of Chemical Dynamics", held in Berlin in 1982 and published as an issue of the Berichte der Bunsen Gesellschaft in 1982, should be consulted, also for providing a historical perspective [42],... 

Jammer, M. Xhe Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics The Interpretations of Qutmtum Mechanics in Historical Perspective. Wiley, Chichester (1974)... 

Abstract. Ford and Wheeler s paper on elastic scattering was the first to fully analyze the semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics for a collision process and thus reveal the nature of quantum corrections to classical mechanics therein. This perspective discusses the historical setting, the content, and present day implications of this work. 

Spin and spatial coordinates do not factorize in Dirac-based theories (in contrast to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics). Hence, ordinary point group symmetries are not a proper approach to understanding half-spin systems. Bethe [590] solved this problem by distinguishing between the null rotation and the rotation by 2n in spinor physics, the concepts, however, were introduced much earlier to mathematics (see the book by Altmann [591] for a historical perspective and a detailed account on double groups). 

The question of the reduction of chemistry is usually addressed from the perspective of quantum mechanics as it was developed by Heisenberg and Schrodinger in the years 1925-26. It is interesting to go further back historically in order to examine the question from the point of view of... 

Requiring no prior experience in modern physics and quantum mechanics, the book introduces quantum concepts and wave mechanics through a simple derivation of the Schrodinger equation, the electron-in-a-box problem, and the wave functions of the hydrogen atom. The author also presents a historical perspective on the development of the materials science field. He discusses the Bose-Einstein, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Planck, and Fermi-Dirac distribution functions before moving on to the various properties and applications of materials. 

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