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QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION
TIME AND BEAUTY
Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies by Adrian Bejan (Duke University, USA)
Textbook
Organized into three main ideas, the book begins first with the perception of time. The author expounds on why we feel that time flies faster as we get older. Perceived time, also called “mind time, “ is different from clock time. In this context, time is another word for “perceived change”. Next, readers will discover that beauty is appealing because beautifully-shaped images are scanned faster by two eyes. To observe our immediate surroundings and to understand them faster is highly advantageous to survival; hence, there is an underlying evolutionary advantage to our discernment for ideal ratios, shapes, and beauty at large. Finally, time and beauty are jointly understood to explain why the global pandemic had decelerated our mind time. This understanding arms us with techniques to slow down our mind time (which accelerates with age), and to create the conditions for living longer and more creatively.
INVITATION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS
by Daniel F Styer (Oberlin College, USA)
Contents: Welcome; “Something Isn’t Quite Right”; What Is Quantum Mechanics About?; Forging Mathematical Tools; The Quantum Mechanics of Position; Solving the Energy Eigenproblem; Identical Particles; Atoms; The Vistas Open to Us.
Contents: Overview; Speeding Time; Beauty; Contrast; Shape; Idea; Perspective; Art and Science; Slowing Time; Design Science Readership: General audience; laypersons, scientists and professionals who are interested in the connections between perceived time and beauty, derived from a scientific approach. 250pp 978-981-124-546-6 978-981-124-679-1(pbk)
Readership: Textbook for second-year undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering, or allied fields, and aimed specifically at the ubiquitous “Modern Physics” course.
Feb 2022 US$58 £50 US$28 £25
297pp 978-981-124-790-3 978-981-124-928-0(pbk)
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The book builds up the phenomena of the quantum world — quantization, interference, and entanglement — in the simplest possible system, the qubit. Once the phenomena are introduced, it builds mathematical machinery for describing them. It goes on to generalize those concepts and that machinery to more intricate systems. Special attention is paid to identical particles, the source of considerable student confusion. In the last chapter, students get a taste of what is not treated in the book and are invited to continue exploring quantum mechanics. Problems in the book test both conceptual and technical knowledge, and invite students to develop their own questions.
