General Principles of Quantum Mechanics (Paperback)

I The Uncertainty Principle and Complementarity.- 1. The Uncertainty Principle and Complementarity.- 2. The Measurement of Position and Momentum.- II Schrodinger Equation and Operator Calculus.- 3. The Wave Function of Free Particles.- 4. The Wave Function of a Particle Acted on by Forces.- 5. Many-Particle Interactions - Operator Calculus.- III Stationary States and the Eigenvalue Problem.- 6. Stationary States as Eigenvalue Problem.- Chpater IV Matrix Mechanics.- 7. General Transformations of Operators and Matrices.- 8. The General Form of the Laws of Motion.- V Theory of Measurements.- 9. Determination of the Stationary States of a System through Measurement: General Discussion of the Concept of Measurement.- VI Approximation Methods.- 10. The General Formalism of Perturbation Theory.- (a) Stationary State Perturbation Theory.- (b) Time-dependent Perturbation Theory.- 11. Adiabatic and Sudden Perturbations.- (a) Adiabatic and Sudden Perturbations of a System.- (b) The Most General Statement on Probability in Quantum Mechanics.- 12. The W K B Approximation.- (a) Limiting Transition to Classical Mechanics.- (b) Relation to the Old Quantum Theory.- VII Identical Particles, Spin and Exclusion Principle.- 13. Hamiltonian Functions with Transformation Groups. Angular Momentum and Spin.- (a) Group Theoretical Considerations.- (b) Wave Functions for Particles with Spin.- 14. The Behaviour of Eigenfunctions of Many Identical Particles Under Permutation. The Exclusion Principle.- (a) Permutations and the Symmetry of Eigenfunctions.- (b) The Exclusion Principle.- VIII Semiclassical Theory of Radiation.- 15. Treatment of the Radiation Processes Based on the Correspondence Principle.- 16. Application of the Semiclassical Theory to the Coherence Properties of Radiation.- IX The Relativistic One-Particle Problem.- 17. Introduction.- 18. Dirac's Wave Equation for the Electron. Free Particle Case.- 19. Relativistic Invariance.- 20. The Behaviour of Wave-Packets in the Free Particle Case.- 21. The Wave Equation when Forces are Present.- 22. Approximations of the Dirac Theory: The Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics of Spin as First Approximation.- 23. Approximations of the Dirac Theory: Limiting Transition to the Classical, Relativistic Particle Mechanics.- 24. Transitions to States of Negative Energy. Limitations of the Dirac Theory.- X Quantum Electrodynamics.- 25. Quantisation of the Free Radiation Field.- (a) Classical Theory.- (b) Quantisation.- (c) Limits of Accuracy on the Measurement of Field Strengths.- (d) Transition to the Configuration Space of Photons.- 26. Interaction Between Radiation and Matter.- 27. Self-Energy of the Electron. Limits of the Present Theory.