Hemley, Susan Reid Ostrowsky, Nicole Ostrowsky, Dan
Type of publication
Books
Language
eng
Physical description
xv, 1524 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Wiley-VCH, 2005
ISBN
9780471164357
Сall number
QC174.12 .C6313 2005
Location
2nd floor
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject
quantum mechanics physics mechanics quantum theory
Genre
Textbooks/Оқулықтар/Учебная литература
Summary
"Beginning students of quantum mechanics frequently experience difficulties separating essential underlying principles from the specific examples to which these principles have been historically applied. Nobel-Prize-winner Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his colleagues have written this book to eliminate precisely these difficulties. Fourteen chapters provide a clarity of organization, careful attention to pedagogical details, and a wealth of topics and examples which make this work a textbook as well as a timeless reference, allowing to tailor courses to meet students' specific needs. Each chapter starts with a clear exposition of the problem which is then treated, and logically develops the physical and mathematical concept. These chapters emphasize the underlying principles of the material, undiluted by extensive references to applications and practical examples which are put into complementary sections. The book begins with a qualitative introduction to quantum mechanical ideas using simple optical analogies and continues with a systematic and thorough presentation of the mathematical tools and postulates of quantum mechanics as well as a discussion of their physical content. Applications follow, starting with the simplest ones like e.g. the harmonic oscillator, and becoming gradually more complicated (the hydrogen atom, approximation methods, etc.). The complementary sections each expand this basic knowledge, supplying a wide range of applications and related topics as well as detailed expositions of a large number of special problems and more advanced topics, integrated as an essential portion of the text."--
Contents
Volume I: Chapter I. Waves and particles -- Introduction to the fundamental ideas of quantum mechanics -- Chapter II. The mathematical tools of quantum mechanics -- Chapter III. The postulates of quantum mechanics -- Chapter IV. Application of postulates to simple cases: spin 1/2 and two-level systems -- Chapter V. The one-dimensional harmonic oscillator -- Chapter VI. General properties of angular momentum in quantum mechanics -- Chapter VII. Particle in a central potential. The hydrogen atom -- Volume II: Chapter VIII. An elementary approach to the quantum theory of scattering by a poetential -- Chapter IX. Electron spin -- Chapter X. Addition of angular momenta -- Chapter XI. Stationary perturbation theory -- Chapter XII. An application of perturbation theory: the fine and hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom -- Chapter XIII. Approximation methods for time-dependent problems -- Chapter XIV. Systems of identical particles
