Quantum Mechanics
Theory and Applications
Published on 1. February 2004
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Digital media
978-1-4020-2130-5 (ISBN)
Description
Globally, Quantum mechanics is a course that is offered to ALL undergraduate and graduate level students in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering. Consequently, every year a very large number of students study Quantum Mechanics. Thus, there is a big market for books on Quantum Mechanics and for this reason, there are many textbooks on Quantum Mechanics which are already available. So, the obvious question is that with so many good books already available, why should one change to this book? The book by Ghatak and Lokanathan is being extensively used in India and in spite of the fact that inexpensive Indian editions of almost all good books on Quantum Mechanics are available, a large number of universities in India have changed over to use this book as the main text primarily due to the following reasons: Because of what has been mentioned above, the book could be used as a successful text at many universities in Europe, Canada and USA.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4020-2130-5 (9781402021305)
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Content
Acknowledgements; Preface; Prologue;. Chronological Development of Quantum Mechanics: A Very Brief Account. Physical Constants; Part I: Mathematical Preliminaries; 1. The Dirac Delta Function; 2. Fourier Transforms; Part II: Basic Quantum Mechanics; 3. Particles and Waves and the Uncertainty Principle; 4. Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation; 5. Propagation of Wave Packets and Concept of Group Velocity; 6. Bound State Solutions of the Schrodinger Equation; 7. Linear Harmonic Oscillator: I. Solution of the Schrodinger Equation and Relationship with the Classical Oscillator; 8. One-Dimensional Barrier Transmission Problems; 9. Angular Momentum I - The Spherical Harmonics; 10. Spherically Symmetric Potentials Hydrogen Atom Problem, Rotation Vibration Spectra, Three-Dimensional Oscillator; 11. Dirac's Bra and Ket Algebra; 12. Linear Harmonic Oscillator: II. Solutions Using Bra and Ket Algebra; 13. Angular Momentum II Using Bra and Ket Algebra; 14. Experiments with Spin Half Particles, The Stern-Gerlach Experiment, Larmor Precession and Magnetic Resonance; 15. Angular Momentum III Eigenfunctions Using Operator Algebra; 16. The Double Well Potential and the Kronig-Penney Model; 17. The JWKB Approximation; 18. Addition of Angular Momenta: The Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients; 19. Time Independent Perturbation Theory; 20. Effects of Magnetic Field; 21. The Variational Method; 22. The Helium Atom and the Exclusion Principle; 23. Some Select Topics; 24. Elementary Theory of Scattering; 25. Time Dependent Perturbation Theory; 26. The Semi-Classical Theory of Radiation and the Einstein Coefficients; 27. The Quantum Theory of Radiation and Its Interaction with Matter; 28. Relativistic Theory; Appendices; Index.