Erwin Schrodinger and Max Born and wavelength mechanics and quantum

mechanics

By: Will Gaul and Stevie Taylor

Biography

• August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961

• Austria and Germany

• Worked at University of Zurich, Friedrich Wilhelm University, and University of Oxford

• Max Wien, Max Planck, Albert Einstein

Erwin Schrodinger and wavelength mechanics

• In 1926 he determined that a particle or an atom would vibrate in circles with activity

• The atom contained, “Waves of Chance”• When an electron passed through the nucleus

these waves would ripple back and forth• They would ripple in a straight line when particles

moved through space inside an atom

Erwin Schrodinger and wavelength mechanics

Erwin Schrodinger and wavelength mechanics

• proposed an original interpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function and in subsequent years repeatedly criticized the conventional Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

Erwin Schrodinger and wavelength mechanics

Quantum Theory

• theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of subatomic particles in a particle physics and quasi-particles in condensed matter physics, by treating a particle as an excited state of an underlying physical field.

Copenhagen Interpretation

• an interpretation of quantum mechanics developed by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, based on the concept of wave-particle duality and the idea that the observation influences the results of an experiment

Probability Density Function

• Describes a cloud-like region where the electron is likely to be found. 

• It can not say with any certainty, where the electron actually is at any point in time, yet can describe where it ought to be

• Known as probability cloud

Electric Motion

• Involves the Quantum Mechanical motion of rigid particles about some other mass, or about themselves. Orbital motion is characterized by orbital angular momentum and spin

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