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