Using an innovative approach that students find both accessible and exciting, this text lays out the foundations of quantum mechanics through the physics of intrinsic spin. This edition has been revised throughout to include more worked examples and end-of-chapter problems, further enabling students to gain a complete mastery of the subject.
Author(s): John S. Townsend
Edition: 2
Publisher: University Science Books
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 571
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Stern-Gerlach Experiments
CHAPTER 2 Rotation of Basis States and Matrix Mechanics
CHAPTER 3 Angular Momentum
CHAPTER 4 Time Evolution
CHAPTER 5 A System of Two Spin-1/2 Particles
CHAPTER 6 Wave Mechanics in One Dimension
CHAPTER 7 The One-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator
CHAPTER 8 Path Integrals
CHAPTER 9 Translational and Rotational Symmetry in the Two-Body Problem
CHAPTER 10 Bound States of Central Potentials
CHAPTER 11 Time-Independent Perturbations
CHAPTER 12 Identical Particles
CHAPTER 13 Scattering
CHAPTER 14 Photons and Atoms
APPENDIX A Electromagnetic Units
APPENDIX B The Addition of Angular Momenta
APPENDIX C Dirac Delta Functions
APPENDIX D Gaussian Integrals
APPENDIX E The Lagrangian for a Charge q in a Magnetic Field
APPENDIX G Answers to Selected Problems
Index
