Research Catalog

Title

Quantum mechanics / Eugen Merzbacher.

Author

Merzbacher, Eugen.

Publication

New York : J. Wiley, 1970.

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Details

Description

x, 621 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"[This book] is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the principles of quantum mechanics and to their application in a variety of fields to which physicists turn."--Preface.

Subject

• Quantum theory
• Quantum Theory
• Quantenmechanik
• Lehrbuch
• Kwantummechanica
• Théorie quantique

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Introduction to quantum mechanics -- Wave packets and free particle motion -- The wave equation -- The wave function and the Schrödinger equation -- The linear harmonic oscillator -- Piecewise constant potentials in one dimension -- The WKB approximation -- The principles of wave mechanics -- Central forces and angular momentum -- Piecewise constant potentials in three dimensions and the hydrogen atom -- Scattering -- The spin -- Dynamics of two-level systems -- Linear vector spaces in quantum mechanics -- Quantum dynamics -- Rotations and other symmetry operations -- Bound state perturbation theory -- Time-dependent perturbation theory -- The formal theory of scattering -- Identical particles -- Applications of second quantization -- Photons and the electromagnetic field -- Relativistic electron theory -- One-electron Dirac theory.

ISBN

• 0471596701
• 9780471596707
• 0471596809
• 9780471596806

LCCN

74088316

OCLC

• ocm00054662
• 54662
• SCSB-244221

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library