Saturday, November 19, 2011

Where can I find the equations of general relativity and Schrodinger's equation?

I want a detailed description of the equations of general relativity and Schrodinger's equation.How can I find that?|||Get a text book. "Modern Physics" by Serway was pretty good.





The equation of general relativity is fairly simple to begin with thou: E = Em +Ek, where E is the total energy, Em is the rest mass/energy and Ek is the realivistic kinetic energy function, which has characters I do not have on this keyboard.





Shrodingers equation requires a bit more explaination... it is an equation with an infinite number of solutions, and an infinite number of wrong answers... kinda annoying. The answers are all probability functions, and a good background in linier algebra and multi-variable calculus is necessary to understand it at all. The significance of the equation, however, can be summed up fairly nicely. While in classical mechanics, the idea was to give a definate answer, relying on our knowelege that if something is behaving this way now, it will behave that way later also, we could accurately predict where something would be providing nothing changed. This is not the case in quantum mechanics. The analogy of Schrodinger's cat is often used to describe how a particle can exist in multiple states at the same time just because we do not know what state it is in.





The implications of the Schrodinger equation are thought provoking, actually solving it is extremely difficult.|||You could search wikipedia, which will give you some brief background and both the Einstein and Schroedinger wave equation:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein's_…


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6d…





But to understand their context and meaning would take more serious study.





For General Relativity, there is "Gravitation" by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler as the canonical text. Probably easier, there is Bernard Schutz's book which is pitched at undergraduates.





To understand Quantum Mechanics, there's a book by Anthony Sudbery that is decent; Liboff and Griffiths were still big with the undergraduates last I checked.|||for Schrodinger's equation:


1. http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExp…


2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger…|||Try Wikipedia.

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