Presents a unified account of the physics of atoms and molecules at a level suitable for undergraduate courses of physics and physical chemistry.
Quantum mathematical physics: atoms, molecules and large systems
β Scribed by Walter Thirring, E.M. Harrell
- Book ID
- 127431651
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Category
- Library
- City
- Berlin; New York
- ISBN-13
- 9783540430780
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β¦ Synopsis
This book is a new edition of Volumes 3 and 4 of Walter Thirring's famous textbook on mathematical physics. The first part is devoted to quantum mechanics and especially to its applications to scattering theory, atoms and molecules. The second part deals with quantum statistical mechanics examining fundamental concepts like entropy, ergodicity and thermodynamic functions. The author builds on an axiomatic basis and uses tools from functional analysis: bounded and unbounded operators on Hilbert space, operator algebras etc. Mathematics is shown to explain the axioms in depth and to provide the right tool for testing numerical data in experiments.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
This introduction to Atomic and Molecular Physics explains how our present model of atoms and molecules has been developed during the last two centuries by many experimental discoveries and from the theoretical side by the introduction of quantum physics to the adequate description of micro-particle