"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- 1. The failure of classical physics and the advent of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. A challenge for classical physics -- 1.2. The photoelectric effect -- 1.3. The Compton effect -- 1.4. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- 1.5. The correspondence principle -- 1.6. The Schr?odinger wave equation…