2021/08/06 by Tomáš Mančal, Mančal, Tomáš
Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.03119
openalex publication_date 2021/08/06 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
To facilitate teaching of quantum mechanics on undergraduate and even advanced secondary school levels, we present an unabridged translation of the original German text of the famous Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough paper of 1925 into Czech language. While the paper introduces fundamentally new concepts into mechanics, and it contains a relatively large number of equations, its conceptual side is surprisingly lightweight when it comes to the use of advanced mathematics. The discussions contained in its Section 1 allow students of quantum mechanics to contemplate the reasons for the inadequacy of classical kinematic concepts in the micro-world. Understanding of the kinematic transition from real valued functions to complex valued "matrices", which is the central point of the paper, can be reached with relatively elementary mathematics. Translations of the Heisenberg's work into languages other than English provide a unique opportunity to introduce the great scientific concepts of quantum mechanics first hand to a broader audience of students who have yet to reach proficiency in the current scientific lingua franca. The present translation is equipped with footnotes explaining the notation, identifying several typos and pointing out sudden changes in notation in the original paper.