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Lectures On Quantum Mechanics
About this book
These lecture notes comprise a three-semester graduate course in quantum mechanics at the University of Illinois. There are a number of texts which present the basic topics very well; but since a fair quantity of the material discussed in my course was not available to the students in elementary quantum mechanics books, I was asked to prepare written notes. In retrospect these lecture notes seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication in this format. The notes, presented here in slightly revised form, consitutute a self-contained course in quantum mechanics from first principles to elementary and relativistic one-particle mechanics. Prerequisite to reading these notes is some familiarity with elementary quantum mechanics, at least at the undergraduate level. Preferably the reader should already have met the uncertainty principle and the concept of a wave function. Prerequisites also include sufficient acquaintance with complex cariables to be able to do simple contour integrals and to understand words such as "poles" and "branch cuts." An elementary knowledge of Fourier transforms and series is necessary. I also assume an awareness of classical electrodynamics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Photon Polarization
- Chapter 2 Neutral K Mesons
- Chapter 3 The Motion of Particles in Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 4 Potential Problems, Mostly in One Dimension
- Chapter 5 Equations of Motion for Operators
- Chapter 6 Orbital Angular Momentum and Central Potentials
- Chapter 7 The Hydrogen Atom
- Chapter 8 Cooper Pairs
- Chapter 9 Potential Scattering
- Chapter 10 Coulomb Scattering
- Chapter 11 Stationary State Perturbation Theory
- Chapter 12 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
- Chapter 13 Interaction of Radiation with Matter
- Chapter 14 Spin ½
- Chapter 15 Addition of Angular Momenta
- Chapter 16 Isotopie Spin
- Chapter 17 Rotations and Tensor Operators
- Chapter 18 Identical Particles
- Chapter 19 Second Quantization
- Chapter 20 Atoms
- Chapter 21 Molecules
- Chapter 22 Relativistic Spin Zero Particles: Klein-Gordon Equation
- Chapter 23 Relativistic Spin ½ Particles: Dirac Equation
- Index