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Lecture 1 - Some cooking recipes for Quantum Mechanics

Fred Jendrzejewski, Selim Jochim

Published Oct 15, 2018• 0 citations
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In this first lecture we will review the foundations of quantum mechanics at the level of a cooking recipe. This will enable us to use them later for the discussion of the atomic structure and interaction between atoms and light.
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10.22541/au.153962527.79494101

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