• Title: Atomic Physics for Everyone: An Introduction to Atomic Physics, Quantum Mechanics, and Precision Spectroscopy with No College-Level Prerequisites
• Author(s) Will Raven
• Publisher: Springer; 2025th edition (October 18, 2024); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Hardcover: 280 pages
• eBook: PDF and ePub
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3031695062
• ISBN-13: 978-3031695063
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Book Description

This open access textbook introduces beginning undergraduate students and high school students to the world of quantum mechanics and atomic spectroscopy. Requiring no previous knowledge of physics and no math beyond basic algebra and sines and cosines, this book focuses on concepts to make the excitement of atomic physics more accessible for learners than ever before.

• Will Raven is an experimental atomic physicist at Smith College.

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