Visual Quantum Mechanics
- Selected Topics with Computer Generated Animations of Quantum Mechanical Phenomena
- Textbook with CD-ROM
- Author: Bernd Thaller
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag, TELOS (The Electronic Library Of Science)
- Publication date: July 2000
- ISBN 0-387-98929-3
- Price: $69.90
- 297 pages + 16 pages in full color. Hardcover. Includes CD-ROM
- Springer-Verlag catalog: New York, Heidelberg
- Catalog at amazon.com
This book presents the quantum-mechanical formalism and its applications to spinless particles in one and two-dimensions. The CD-ROM contains about 320 QuickTime movies with visualizations of quantum mechanical phenomena (here are some examples). This CD-ROM won the European Academic Software Award 2000 with a special mention of outstanding innovation in its field.
Here is additional information about the textbook:
- Promotional text (on the book's cover)
- Preface
- Table of contents with links to the chapter summaries
- Some personal remarks about the making of VQM
- Reader's comments, book reviews, etc.
The following links tell you more about the accompanying CD-ROM:
- Hardware requirements
- Macintosh users: upgrade to OS-X
- Some screen shots
- Sample movies
Information about the software used to create the presentation:
- Mathematica (for the movies)
- QuickTime (for movie playback)
- Macromedia Director (user-interface, multimedia framework for the presentation of the movies together with explanatory text)
- Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (image editing)
- Textures (TeX) (text editing)
- TeXShop and gwtex
- QuantumGL (openGL-based visualization of higher-dimensional data)
