Quantum mechanics : an experimentalist's approach /
Eugene D. Commins takes an experimentalist's approach to quantum mechanics, preferring to use concrete physical explanations over formal, abstract descriptions to address the needs and interests of a diverse group of students. Keeping physics at the foreground and explaining difficult concepts...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Mathematical review
- The rules of quantum mechanics
- The connection between the fundamental rules and wave mechanics
- Further illustrations of the rules of quantum mechanics
- Further developments in one-dimensional wave mechanics
- The theory of angular momentum
- Wave mechanics in three dimensions : hydrogenic atoms
- Time-independent approximations for bound-state problems
- Applications of perturbation theory : bound states of hydrogenic atoms
- Identical particles
- Atomic structure
- Molecules
- The stability of matter
- Photons
- Interaction of nonrelativistic charged particles and radiation
- Further topics in perturbation theory
- Scattering
- Special relativity and quantum mechanics : the Klein-Gordon equation
- The Dirac equation
- Interaction of a relativistic spin-1/2 particle with an external electromagnetic field
- The Dirac field
- Interaction between relativistic electrons, positrons, and photons
- The quantum mechanics of weak interactions
- The quantum measurement problem.