Quantum physics for beginners

✍ Scribed by Ficek, Zbigniew

• Publisher: Pan Stanford Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The textbook covers the background theory of various effects discussed from first principles, as clearly as possible, to introduce students to the main ideas of quantum physics and to teach the basic mathematical methods and techniques used in the fields of advanced quantum physics, atomic physics, laser physics, nanotechnology, quantum chemistry, and theoretical mathematics. Many of the predictions of quantum physics appear to be contrary to our intuitive perceptions, and the student will learn how it comes about that microscopic objects (particles) behave in unusual ways that are called quantum effects, what we mean by quantum, and where this idea came from. The textbook is supplemented with Problems and Solutions in Quantum Physics, which contains a wide range of tutorial problems from simple confidence builders to fairly challenging problems that provide adequate understanding of the basic concepts of quantum physics. Read more...

Abstract: The textbook covers the background theory of various effects discussed from first principles, as clearly as possible, to introduce students to the main ideas of quantum physics and to teach the basic mathematical methods and techniques used in the fields of advanced quantum physics, atomic physics, laser physics, nanotechnology, quantum chemistry, and theoretical mathematics. Many of the predictions of quantum physics appear to be contrary to our intuitive perceptions, and the student will learn how it comes about that microscopic objects (particles) behave in unusual ways that are called quantum effects, what we mean by quantum, and where this idea came from. The textbook is supplemented with Problems and Solutions in Quantum Physics, which contains a wide range of tutorial problems from simple confidence builders to fairly challenging problems that provide adequate understanding of the basic concepts of quantum physics

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
Preface
Note to the Reader
Suggested Readings
Chapter 1: Radiation (Light) is a Wave
Chapter 2: Difficulties of the Wave Theory of Radiation
Chapter 3: Blackbody Radiation
Chapter 4: Planck's Quantum Hypothesis: Birth of Quantum Theory
Chapter 5: Bohr Model
Chapter 6: Duality of Light and Matter
Chapter 7: Non-Relativistic Schrödinger Equation
Chapter 8: Applications of Schrödinger Equation: Potential (Quantum) Wells
Chapter 9: Multidimensional Quantum Wells
Chapter 10: Linear Operators and Their Algebra
Chapter 11: Dirac Bra-Ket Notation. Chapter 12: Matrix RepresentationsChapter 13: Spin Operators and Pauli Matrices
Chapter 14: Quantum Dynamics and Pictures
Chapter 15: Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
Chapter 16: Quantum Theory of Hydrogen Atom
Chapter 17: Quantum Theory of Two Coupled Particles
Chapter 18: Time-Independent Perturbation Theory
Chapter 19: Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
Chapter 20: Relativistic Schrödinger Equation
Chapter 21: Systems of Identical Particles
Final Remark
Appendix A: Derivation of the Boltzmann distribution function Pn
Appendix B: Useful Mathematical Formulae.

✦ Subjects

Quantum theory.;SCIENCE;Energy.;SCIENCE;Mechanics;General.;SCIENCE;Physics;General.