Quantum mechanics :

Commins, Eugene D.

Quantum mechanics : an experimentalist's approach Eugene D. Commins, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - xiii, 680 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 671-672) and index.

Mathematical preliminaries -- The rules of quantum mechanics -- The connection between the fundamental rules and wave mechanics -- Further illustrations of the rules of quantum mechanics -- Further developments in one-dimensional wave mechanics -- The theory of angular momentum -- Wave mechanics in three dimensions: hydrogenic atoms -- Time-independent approximations for bound state problems -- Applications of static perturbation theory -- Identical particles -- Atomic structure -- Molecules -- The stability of matter -- Photons -- Interaction of non-relativistic charged particles and radiation -- Further topics in perturbation theory -- Scattering -- Special relativity and quantum mechanics: the Klein-Gordon equation -- The Dirac equation -- Interaction of a relativistic spin 1/2 particle with an external electromagnetic field -- The Dirac field -- Interaction between relativistic electrons, positrons, and photons -- The quantum mechanics of weak interactions -- The quantum measurement problem.

9781107063990 (hardback : alk. paper)

2014002491


Quantum theory.

QC174.12 / .C646 2014

530.12 C7342Q



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