(March 29, 2022 at 8:12 am)polymath257 Wrote:(March 28, 2022 at 8:28 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Schrödinger's equation describes electrons, protons and many (perhaps, nearly all other, I'm not a physicist) particles. If you want to learn more, I would suggest an undergraduate text in physics, such as Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker.
Schrodinger's equation is a non-relativistic equation, and so does not incorporate spin or anti-matter. It is a good approximation for most atomic physics.
Dirac's equation is the relativistic version for fermions (electrons, protons) and Maxwell's equations are the version for spin 1 bosons (photons being the main example).
The philosophy slightly changes when going to field theories, with the Lagrangian being the point of focus.
Some physics professor from a University of California school did a YouTube class on QED; the first equation that he wrote on his board was,
QED = QM + SR