Quantum mechanics. (2016)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Quantum mechanics. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Quantum mechanics.
- Authors:
- Rae, Alastair I. M
Napolitano, Jim - Contents:
- Waves, Electromagnetism, and the Limits of Classical Physics; The Physics and Mathematics of Waves; A REVIEW OF SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION; THE STRETCHED STRING EQUATION OF MOTION; STANDING WAVES AND FOURIER SERIES; THE FOURIER TRANSFORM PROBLEMS Maxwell’s Equation and Electromagnetic Waves; MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS AS INTEGRALS; SURFACE THEOREMS IN VECTOR CALCULUS; MAXWELL’S EQUATION AS DERIVATIVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION Particle Mechanics, Relativity, and Photons ; NEWTON, MAXWELL, AND EINSTEIN; SPACETIME IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY; VELOCITY, MOMENTUM, AND ENERGY The Early Development of Quantum Mechanics; THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT; THE COMPTON EFFECT; LINE SPECTRA AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DE BROGLIE WAVES; WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY; THE REST OF THIS BOOK Elementary Wave Mechanics; The One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equations ; THE TIME-DEPENDENT SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION; THE TIME-INDEPENDENT SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THE INFINITE SQUARE WELL; THE FINITE SQUARE WELL; QUANTUM MECHANICAL TUNNELLING; THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR The Three-Dimensional Schrödinger Equations; THE WAVE EQUATIONS; SEPARATION IN CARTESIAN COORDINATES; SEPARATION IN SPHERICAL POLAR COORDINATES; THE HYDROGENIC ATOM Formal Foundations ; The Basic Postulates of Quantum Mechanics; THE WAVE FUNCTION; THE DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE ; THE TIME DEPENDENCE OF THE WAVE FUNCTION; DEGENERACY; THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR AGAIN; THEWaves, Electromagnetism, and the Limits of Classical Physics; The Physics and Mathematics of Waves; A REVIEW OF SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION; THE STRETCHED STRING EQUATION OF MOTION; STANDING WAVES AND FOURIER SERIES; THE FOURIER TRANSFORM PROBLEMS Maxwell’s Equation and Electromagnetic Waves; MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS AS INTEGRALS; SURFACE THEOREMS IN VECTOR CALCULUS; MAXWELL’S EQUATION AS DERIVATIVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION Particle Mechanics, Relativity, and Photons ; NEWTON, MAXWELL, AND EINSTEIN; SPACETIME IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY; VELOCITY, MOMENTUM, AND ENERGY The Early Development of Quantum Mechanics; THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT; THE COMPTON EFFECT; LINE SPECTRA AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DE BROGLIE WAVES; WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY; THE REST OF THIS BOOK Elementary Wave Mechanics; The One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equations ; THE TIME-DEPENDENT SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION; THE TIME-INDEPENDENT SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THE INFINITE SQUARE WELL; THE FINITE SQUARE WELL; QUANTUM MECHANICAL TUNNELLING; THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR The Three-Dimensional Schrödinger Equations; THE WAVE EQUATIONS; SEPARATION IN CARTESIAN COORDINATES; SEPARATION IN SPHERICAL POLAR COORDINATES; THE HYDROGENIC ATOM Formal Foundations ; The Basic Postulates of Quantum Mechanics; THE WAVE FUNCTION; THE DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE ; THE TIME DEPENDENCE OF THE WAVE FUNCTION; DEGENERACY; THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR AGAIN; THE MEASUREMENT OF MOMENTUM BY COMPTON SCATTERING Angular Momentum I ; THE ANGULAR-MOMENTUM OPERATORS; THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; THE EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM; A GENERAL SOLUTION TO THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM EIGENVALUE PROBLEM Angular Momentum II; MATRIX REPRESENTATIONS; PAULI SPIN MATRICES; SPIN AND THE QUANTUM THEORY OF MEASUREMENT; DIRAC NOTATION; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING AND THE ZEEMAN EFFECT; A MORE GENERAL TREATMENT OF THE COUPLING OF ANGULAR MOMENTA Time-Independent Perturbation Theory and the Variational Principle ; PERTURBATION THEORY FOR NONDEGENERATE ENERGY LEVELS; PERTURBATION THEORY FOR DEGENERATE ENERGY LEVELS; THE VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE Extensions and Approximation Schemes; Time Dependence ; TIME-INDEPENDENT HAMILTONIANS; THE SUDDEN APPROXIMATION; TIME-DEPENDENT PERTURBATION THEORY; TRANSITIONS BETWEEN ATOMIC ENERGY LEVELS; THE EHRENFEST THEOREM; THE AMMONIA MASER Scattering ; SCATTERING IN ONE DIMENSION; SCATTERING IN THREE DIMENSIONS; THE BORN APPROXIMATION; PARTIAL WAVE ANALYSIS Many-Particle Systems ; GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; ISOLATED SYSTEMS; NONINTERACTING PARTICLES; INDISTINGUISHABLE PARTICLES; MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEMS; THE HELIUM ATOM; SCATTERING OF IDENTICAL PARTICLES Relativity and Quantum Mechanics ; BASIC RESULTS IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY; THE DIRAC EQUATION; ANTIPARTICLES; OTHER WAVE EQUATIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND THE SPIN-STATISTICS THEOREM Advanced Topics ; Quantum Information; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; ENTANGLEMENT; CLONING AND TELEPORTATION; QUANTUM COMPUTING The Conceptual Problems of Quantum Mechanics ; THE CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS; HIDDEN-VARIABLE THEORIES; NONLOCALITY; THE QUANTUM MEASUREMENT PROBLEM; THE ONTOLOGICAL PROBLEM Problems appear at the end of each chapter. … (more)
- Edition:
- Sixth edition
- Publisher Details:
- Boca Raton : CRC Press
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 530.12
Quantum theory - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781482299236
9781482299212
9781482299229 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781482299182
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