The Principles of Quantum Mechanics - Quiz
A) Italian B) Spanish C) Chinese D) Russian
A) Ivanenko B) Bronstein C) Tamm D) Dirac
A) Matvei Bronstein and Dmitri Ivanenko B) Igor Tamm and Peter Kapitza C) Vladimir Fock and Douglas Hartree D) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
A) Igor Tamm B) Dmitri Ivanenko C) Peter Kapitza D) Matvei Bronstein
A) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga B) Igor Tamm and Peter Kapitza C) Werner Bloch and Felix Bloch D) Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock
A) Dirac B) Ivanenko C) Tamm D) Bronstein
A) Yoshio Nishina B) Sin-Itiro Tomonaga C) Matvei Bronstein D) Werner Bloch
A) The translators B) The publishers C) Matvei Bronstein D) Dmitri Ivanenko
A) Yoshio Nishina B) Vladimir Fock C) Douglas Hartree D) Werner Bloch
A) Max Jammer B) Matvei Bronstein C) Werner Bloch D) Felix Bloch
A) Solid state physics B) Thermodynamics C) The principle of superposition D) Nuclear physics
A) Chaos theory B) Dynamical variables and observables C) Astrophysics D) Fluid dynamics
A) Theory of radiation B) Representations C) Collision problems D) Perturbation theory
A) The equations of motion B) Quantum electrodynamics C) Elementary applications D) The quantum conditions
A) Relativistic theory of the electron B) Perturbation theory C) The equations of motion D) Collision problems
A) Elementary applications B) Representations C) Systems containing several similar particles D) Theory of radiation
A) Quantum electrodynamics B) Collision problems C) Perturbation theory D) The quantum conditions
A) Collision problems B) The equations of motion C) The principle of superposition D) Representations
A) Relativistic theory of the electron B) Quantum electrodynamics C) Systems containing several similar particles D) Elementary applications
A) Dynamical variables and observables B) Perturbation theory C) Theory of radiation D) Quantum electrodynamics
A) Collision problems B) The quantum conditions C) Relativistic theory of the electron D) The equations of motion
A) Perturbation theory B) Quantum electrodynamics C) Relativistic theory of the electron D) Theory of radiation
A) The stage, the tone, and much of the language of the quantum-mechanical revolution B) The foundation for modern computer science C) The mathematical rules for classical mechanics D) The standard nomenclature for thermodynamics
A) 500 B) 10,000 C) 1,000 D) 3,000
A) Copenhagen Press B) Cambridge University Press C) GTTI D) Springer Verlag
A) Dialectical materialism B) Capitalism C) Empiricism D) Utilitarianism
A) The Copenhagen interpretation B) Ensemble interpretation C) The Many-Worlds 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 too easy for beginners C) That Dirac did not refer much to the original research literature D) That it was written in too many languages
A) John von Neumann B) Josiah Willard Gibbs C) Hermann Weyl D) Isaac Newton
A) Principia B) Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics C) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics D) Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik
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) An introductory textbook for children C) An indispensable standard work D) A complete failure
A) It was too short B) It was too distant from experiments C) It relied too heavily on Russian translations D) It used too many illustrations
A) Elementary and simplistic B) Highly reliable and essential C) Confusing and outdated D) Flawed and overly mathematical
A) A purely mathematical exercise B) A flawed and chaotic collection of notes C) A simple guide for high school students D) An astonishingly complete and coherent treatise
A) Josiah Willard Gibbs B) John von Neumann C) Hermann Weyl D) Isaac Newton
A) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics B) Principia C) Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics D) Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik
A) It contained dangerous political propaganda B) It was only available in Russian C) It was filled with calculation errors D) It was not suitable as an introduction to quantum mechanics
A) Paul Epstein B) Charles Galton Darwin C) Bernard Koopman D) John Lennard-Jones
A) The high price of the publication B) The excessive number of colorful illustrations C) The lack of concrete examples to illustrate the theory D) The use of the Russian language
A) Felix Bloch and Matvei Bronstein B) Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann C) Paul Epstein and Werner Heisenberg D) Abdus Salam and Eugene Wigner
A) As a confusing and unnecessary text B) As a purely experimental guide C) As a mediocre introduction to mechanics D) As the most logically perfect presentation of the subject
A) His companion B) A doorstop C) A weapon in political debates D) A pillow
A) A boring historical record B) A fine work of art C) A flawed computer program D) A messy lecture transcript
A) They were seldom cited B) They were rewritten frequently C) They were heavily cited D) They were banned
A) Indifferent B) More critical C) Unaware D) More enthusiastic
A) Bernard Koopman B) John Gribbin C) Max Jammer D) Graham Farmelo
A) Velocity and acceleration B) Eigenvalue and eigenfunction C) Action and reaction D) Quantum and superposition
A) Russian B) German C) Latin D) French
A) Proper value and proper function B) Primary value and primary function C) Characteristic value and characteristic function D) Base value and base function
A) Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann B) Igor Tamm and Peter Kapitza C) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga D) Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock
A) δ B) π C) ω D) ψ
A) Establishing a rigorous new branch of pure mathematics B) Writing a popular science fiction novel C) Creating an exposition in physics, treating mathematics as a tool D) Refuting the work of John von Neumann
A) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics B) Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics C) Principia D) Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik
A) Josiah Willard Gibbs B) John von Neumann C) Hermann Weyl D) Isaac Newton
A) It led to correct results B) It was approved by Albert Einstein C) It was mathematically rigorous D) It was invented by John von Neumann
A) Bernard Koopman B) Graham Farmelo C) Laurent Schwartz D) Max Jammer
A) 1902 B) 1945 C) 1932 D) 1928
A) For thinking of it as the kernel of an integral transform B) For proving its mathematical rigor from axioms C) For translating it into Russian D) For eliminating it from quantum mechanics
A) It was too short to read in a day B) It contained too many computational exercises C) It was basically a transcript of Dirac's lectures at Cambridge D) It was written entirely in German
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 an irrelevant historical artifact C) As a 'bible' of modern physics D) As a comic book
A) Eugene Wigner B) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar C) Abdus Salam D) Richard Feynman
A) Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock B) Abdus Salam and Eugene Wigner C) Yoshio Nishina and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga D) Garrett Birkhoff and Bernard Koopman
A) Isaac Newton B) Josiah Willard Gibbs C) Hermann Weyl D) John von Neumann
A) Head of Mathematics B) Director of Quantum Studies C) Professor of Theoretical Physics D) Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
A) A political manifesto against capitalism B) An obsolete manual from the 19th century C) A complete guide to building particle accelerators D) One of their first introductions to the nascent scientific theory
A) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar B) Richard Feynman C) Matvei Bronstein D) Laurent Schwartz
A) The second edition B) The German edition C) The first edition D) The Russian edition
A) The late 1930s B) World War II C) The early twenty-first century D) The year 1950
A) Max Jammer B) John Gribbin C) Graham Farmelo D) Laurie M. Brown
A) Max Jammer B) Bernard Koopman C) Laurie M. Brown D) Graham Farmelo
A) Because it lacked the chapter on quantum electrodynamics B) Because of Dirac's refusal to accept renormalization C) Because it was written in obsolete Russian D) Because all copies had been destroyed
A) Something that merely 'swept infinities under the carpet' B) A logically perfect mathematical tool C) An essential foundation for quantum field theory D) The greatest breakthrough of the twentieth century
A) A standard tool B) An abandoned hypothesis C) A banned procedure D) A purely mathematical curiosity
A) 1947 B) 1930 C) 1925 D) 1935
A) Cambridge University Press B) Oxford University Press C) Elsevier D) Springer
A) 82 B) 85 C) 90 D) 78
A) 500 B) 650 C) 785 D) 1000
A) Sections B) Equations C) Prefaces D) Diagrams
A) Werner Heisenberg B) Ralph Fowler C) Peter Kapitza D) Erwin Schrödinger
A) Huygens principle B) Action principle C) Poisson brackets D) Linear integral equations
A) Summer terms B) Easter terms C) Lent terms D) Michaelmas terms
A) Oliver Heaviside B) Gustav Kirchhoff C) Erwin Schrödinger D) Cornelius Lanczos
A) Eugene Wigner B) Gustav Kirchhoff C) Oliver Heaviside D) Carl Eckart
A) Peter Kapitza B) Oliver Heaviside C) Ralph Fowler D) Gustav Kirchhoff
A) A wave B) A pulse C) A circuit D) An oscillation
A) h / 4\pi B) 2\pi / h C) h / \pi D) h / 2\pi
A) Photon B) Proton C) Neutron D) Positron
A) Carl Anderson B) Wolfgang Pauli C) J. Robert Oppenheimer D) Paul Dirac
A) 1935 B) 1930 C) 1939 D) 1958
A) The first chapter B) The section on the action principle C) The final chapter D) The preface
A) A list of authors B) A list of equations C) A bibliography 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 historical approach B) A formal approach C) A mathematical approach D) An axiomatic approach
A) Postdoctoral researcher B) Professor of physics C) Post-graduate student D) Doctoral candidate
A) Undergraduate student B) Department head C) Doctoral candidate D) Full professor
A) Lent terms (spring) B) Easter terms C) Michaelmas terms (autumn) D) Summer terms
A) 1958 B) 1935 C) 1967 D) 1947 |
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