Introduction to Quantum Physics

by A.P. French, Edwin F. Taylor

Overview

Quantum physics concerns the behavior of the smallest things we know. These smallest things are very small indeed. Although the world of the very small is remote from our senses, it shapes everyday experience.

Almost everything we touch and see (together with nerve impulses and light, the messengers of touch and sight) owes its character to the subtle architecture of atoms and molecules, an architecture whose building code is quantum mechanics. And when we come to large-scale phenomena that depends in a direct way on the details of atomic processes-for example lasers, superconductors, and solid-state electronics-then the explicit use of quantum physics is essential.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393091069
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/17/1978
Series:	M.I.T. Introductory Physics Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	696
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

PREFACE, LEARNING AIDS FOR QUANTUM PHYSICS, 1 Simple models of the atom, 2 The wave properties of particles, 3 Wave-particle duality and bound states, 4 Solutions of Schrodinger’s equation in one dimension, 5 Further applications of Schrodinger’s equation, 6 Photons and quantum states, 7 Quantum amplitudes and state vectors, 8 The time dependence of quantum states, 9 Particle scattering and barrier penetration, 10 Angular momentum, 11 Angular momentum of atomic systems, 12 Quantum states of three-dimensional systems, 13 Identical particles and atomic structure, 14 Radiation by atoms, BIBLIOGRAPHY, ANSWERS TO EXERCISES, SELECTED PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND CONVERSION FACTORS, INDEX