A Mathematical Journey to Quantum Mechanics /

This book provides an itinerary to quantum mechanics taking into account the basic mathematics to formulate it. Specifically, it features the main experiments and postulates of quantum mechanics pointing out their mathematical prominent aspects showing how physical concepts and mathematical tools ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Capozziello, Salvatore (Author), Boskoff, Wladimir-Georges (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:UNITEXT for Physics,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: How to read this book
  • Newtonian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics
  • Can Light be described by Classical Mechanics?
  • Why Quantum Mechanics?
  • The Schrödinger Equations and Their Consequences
  • The Mathematics behind the Harmonic Oscillator
  • From Monochromatic Plane Waves to Wave Packets
  • The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Mathematics behind
  • The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
  • Consequences of Quantum Mechanics Principles
  • Quantum Mechanics at the Next Level
  • Conclusions.