Quantum Mechanics. Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by John D. McGervey (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 413
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This re-focused third edition of McGerveys Introduction to Modern Physics is one of the most comprehensive up-to-date textbooks and references sources on quantum mechanics available. This revision fills the gapbetween the mainly descriptive treatments of quantum mechanics, usually found in traditional modern physics texts, and the non-intuitive approaches that treat the subject as a series of mathematical theorems. McGervey achieves this goal with a thoughtfulanalysis of a number of experiments, supplementing these with fully worked examples, and by investigating paradoxes rather than relying on the analysis of a series of dry mathematical theorems. Software, provided with the text, is available for IBM-PC compatible computers with VGA graphics. The software is the basis for the homework problems, many of which have not been used in any form in other books at this level. The text is exceptionally current, a fact reflected in the significant amount of materialbased on articles published in recent years in The American Journal of Physics, The Physical Review,<$> and Science.<$> In all, McGervey provides a lively discussion that will motivate interest and understanding of the subject at the senior undergraduate level.


A re-focused third edition of McGervey's Introduction to Modern Physics
Analyzes a number of different experiments, supplementing these with numerical examples including fully worked problems
Includes software that is the basis for homework problems, many of which have not been seen in any other form in other books at this level
Investigates paradoxes rather than relying on the analysis of a series of dry mathematical theorems

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
PREFACE, Pages xi-xiii
CHAPTER 1 - The Quantum Concept, Pages 1-25
CHAPTER 2 - Waves and Particles, Pages 26-53
CHAPTER 3 - The Schrödinger Equation in One Dimension, Pages 54-79
CHAPTER 4 - Further Analysis of One-Dimensional Bound Systems, Pages 80-99
CHAPTER 5 - The Free Particle as a Traveling Wave, Pages 100-114
CHAPTER 6 - Three Dimensions and Angular Momentum, Pages 115-138
CHAPTER 7 - Angular Momentum and Superposition of States, Pages 139-158
CHAPTER 8 - The Radial Schrödinger Equation, Pages 159-182
CHAPTER 9 - The Hydrogen Atom, Pages 183-195
CHAPTER 10 - Spin, Pages 196-220
CHAPTER 11 - Identical Particles, Pages 221-234
CHAPTER 12 - Approximate Solutions, Pages 235-259
CHAPTER 13 - Atomic Spectroscopy, Pages 260-282
CHAPTER 14 - Time–Dependent Perturbations and Radiation, Pages 283-314
CHAPTER 15 - Molecular Structure and Spectra, Pages 315-325
CHAPTER 16 - Quantum Statistics, Pages 326-362
APPENDIX A - Probability and Statistics, Pages 363-369
APPENDIX B - The Boltzmann Factor, Pages 370-371
APPENDIX C - Relativistic Dynamics, Pages 372-383
APPENDIX D - Derivation of the Eigenfunctions of the L² Operator, Pages 384-387
APPENDIX E - Solution of the Radial Equation for the Hydrogen Atom, Pages 388-392
APPENDIX F - Numerical Solution of the Schrödinger Equation, Pages 393-399
APPENDIX H - Table of “Elementary” Particles, Pages 400-401
APPENDIX H - Table of Physical Constants, Page 402
INDEX, Pages 403-408