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Table of Contents
1. Wave-Particle Duality and Schroedinger Equation.
2. Introduction to Bound States.
3. Rotationally Invariant Potentials: Hydrogen Atom and Beyond.
4. Wave Packets and Uncertainty Relations.
5. Scattering by Simple Barriers.
6. WKB Approximations.
7. Expectation Values and Operators.
8. Electrons in a Magnetic Field.
9. Beyond Hermitian Operators.
10. Harmonic Oscillator: Full Operator Treatment.
11. Composite Systems.
12. Variational Principle.
13. Expansion Principle and Matrix Formulation.
14. Perturbation Theory, I: "Degenerate" Perturbation Theory.
15. Perturbation Theory, II: "Non-Degenerate" Perturbation Theory.
16. Symmetry.
17. Electrons in Periodic Crystal Potentials.
18. Rotational Invariance and Angular Momentum.
19. Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.
20. Elements of Field Quantization.
21. Electron Spin.
22. Indistinguishable Particles: Fermions and Bosons.
Appendices: Dirac …d-Function. Poisson-Distributed Events. Spherical Harmonics. Hydrogen Radial Eigenfunctions. Fourier Integral. Construction of Two Group Character Tables. Selected General References. Fundamental Constants.
Index.