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 quasiparticles 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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