Resource letter ICQM-1: The interplay between classical and quantum mechanics

This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature that is concerned with the connections between classical and quantum mechanics. After the three centuries of classical mechanics, this fundamental problem in physics became one of the important issues at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the transitional period from 1900 to 1925. It then lost some of its urgency during the modern period from the discovery of Schrodinger's equation to the middle of the 1960s, when the validity of quantum mechanics was tested in all the areas of application. The most recent 30 years are called the Post-Modern Period because both the classical and quantal aspects of nature are seen in their full complexity, and the advantages of viewing one in the light of the other have brought a better understanding of many special fields. The literature is divided into these four periods, and the list of references in each of them is subdivided according to the main areas of interest. Most of the bibliographic descriptions are accompanied by a short comment that is supposed to complete the information in the title. (C) 1998 American Association of Physics Teachers.