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Introductory Quantum Mechanics, 4th Edition
ISBN-10: 0-8053-8714-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-8053-8714-8
Published by Addison-Wesley
© 2003
Pub. Date: Aug 8, 2002
Format: Cloth
Description
Careful and detailed explanations of challenging concepts in Introductory Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition, and comprehensive and up-to-date coverage, continue to set the standard in physics education. In the new edition of this best-selling quantum mechanics book, a new chapter on the revolutionary topic of of quantum computing (not currently covered in any other book at this level) and thorough updates to the rest of the book bring it up to date.
Table of Contents
I. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS TO PROBLEMS IN ONE DIMENSION.
1. Review of Concepts of Classical Mechanics.
2. Historical Review: Experiments and Theories.
3. The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics: Operators, Eigenfunctions, and Eigenvalues.
4. Preparatory Concepts: Function Spaces and Hermitian Operators.
5. Time Development, Conservation Theorems, and Parity.
6. Time Development, Conservation Theorems, and Parity.
7. Additional One-Dimensional Problems: Bound and Unbound States.
8. Finite Potential Well, Periodic Lattice, and Some Simple Problems with Two Degrees of Freedom.
II. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS TO PROBLEMS IN THREE DIMENSIONS.
9. Angular Momentum.
10. Problems in Three Dimensions.
11. Elements of Matrix Mechanics: Spin Wavefunctions.
12. Application to Atomic, Molecular, Solid-State, and Nuclear Physics: Elements of Quantum Statistics.
13. Perturbation Theory.
14. Scattering in Three Dimensions.
15. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
16. Quantum Computing.
List of Symbols.
Appendices.
Index.
List of Tables.
Topical Problems.
