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Quantum Mechanics / Edition 3

Quantum Mechanics / Edition 3

by Eugen Merzbacher
Quantum Mechanics / Edition 3
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ISBN-10:
0471887021
ISBN-13:
9780471887027
Pub. Date:
01/14/1998
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0471887021
ISBN-13:
9780471887027
Pub. Date:
01/14/1998
Publisher:
Wiley
Quantum Mechanics / Edition 3

Quantum Mechanics / Edition 3

by Eugen Merzbacher

Overview

Rapid advances in quantum optics, atomic physics, particle physics and other areas have been driven by fantastic progress in instrumentation (especially lasers) and computing technology as well as by the ever-increasing emphasis on symmetry and information concepts-requiring that all physicists receive a thorough grounding in quantum mechanics. This book provides a carefully structured and complete exposition of quantum mechanics and illustrates the common threads linking many different phenomena and subfields of physics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780471887027
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 01/14/1998
Edition description: 3rd Revised ed.
Pages: 672
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 10.14(h) x 1.17(d)

About the Author

Eugen Merzbacher was an American physicist. Merzbacher was born in Berlin and emigrated in 1935 with his family from Germany to Turkey, where his father worked as a chemist. He received his licentiate from University of Istanbul in Turkey in 1943 and taught high school in Ankara for the next four years.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.

Wave Packets, Free Particle Motion, and the Wave Equation.

The Schrödinger Equation, the Wave Function, and Operator Algebra.

The Principles of Wave Mechanics.

The Linear Harmonic Oscillator.

Sectionally Constant Potentials in One Dimension.

The WKB Approximation.

Variational Methods and Simple Perturbation Theory.

Vector Spaces in Quantum Mechanics.

Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Operators, the Uncertainty Relations, and the Harmonic Oscillator.

Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics.

Spherically Symmetric Potentials.

Scattering.

The Principles of Quantum Dynamics.

The Quantum Dynamics of a Particle.

The Spin.

Rotations and Other Symmetry Operations.

Bound-State Perturbation Theory.

Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.

The Formal Theory of Scattering.

Identical Particles.

Applications to Many-Body Systems.

Photons and the Electromagnetic Field.

Relativistic Electron Theory.

Appendix.

References.

Index.
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