Introductory quantum mechanics

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Author(s): Liboff, Richard L
Edition: 4. ed, 5th pr. with rev
Publisher: Pearson,Addison-Wesley
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 878
City: San Francisco
Tags: Quantum theory

Content: 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.