Quantum Mechanics (Paperback, 6)

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 Schrodinger Equations
THE TIME-DEPENDENT SCHRODINGER EQUATION
THE TIME-INDEPENDENT SCHRODINGER EQUATION
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
THE INFINITE SQUARE WELL
THE FINITE SQUARE WELL
QUANTUM MECHANICAL TUNNELLING
THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR

The Three-Dimensional Schrodinger 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.