Need a book to explain the princple of quanization

[patric44]

hi guys

i am struggling to understand how and why quantization of energy solves the UV catastrophe and the black body problem ? and how they get to the Rayleigh - jeans equation in the first place ? and why plank modified the equation the way he did ? and why should the harmonic oscillators inside the black body have quantized energy ?

is there is a book ( a free book would be great ) to explain in details these things for me ?

 

[phyzguy]

I don't think you will find a clearer explanation than the Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol 1 Chapter 41. It is available online here. If that doesn't answer your questions, come back and ask.

 

[jedishrfu]

The Openstax book on College Physics Chapter 29 may help explain this better:

https://cnx.org/contents/jQSmhtXo@15.1:z1-wcODH@2/Quantization-of-Energy

 

[Nguyen Son]

For me, i think some introduction QM books may help you
You can find Quantum Mechanics by Cohen-Tannoudji, Introduction of QM by Griffith, QM-An introduction by W. Greiner, or Feynman lecture...

 

[George Jones]

I really like "Quantum Concepts in Physics: An Alternative Approach to the Understanding of Quantum Mechanics" by Malcolm Longair (2013). This book, intended to be a compliment to (but not substitute for) standard courses and texts on quantum mechanics, presents quantum mechanics from a historical perspective at about the level of a senior undergraduate.

Form the back cover:
"Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rather than following the standard axiomatic approach, this book adopts a historical perspective, explaining clearly and authoritatively how pioneers such as Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Pauli and Dirac developed the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and merged them into a coherent theory, and why the mathematical infrastructure of quantum mechanics has to be as complex as it is. The author creates a compelling narrative, providing a remarkable example of how physics and mathematics work in practice. The book encourages an enhanced appreciation of the interaction between mathematics, theory and experiment, helping the reader gain a deeper understanding of the development and content of quantum mechanics than any other text at this level."

 

[vanhees71]

Judged from the cited back cover, I can only warn against this book. The historical perspective is very confusing as QT has been very confusing before it was really understood (by Dirac). If you want a historical source, read Dirac's famous textbook. For a straight-forward approach, I recommend Sakurai, Tuan, Modern Qunatum Mechanics, Revised Edition.