Solved Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics

✍ Scribed by Michele Cini, Francesco Fucito, Mauro Sbragaglia (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 409
• Series: Unitext
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work arises from our teaching this subject during many years. The vast majority of these exercises are the exams we gave to our students in this period. We carefully selected the subjects of the exercises to cover all the material which is most needed and which is treated in the most well known texts on these subjects. Each exercise is carefully solved in full details, explaining the theory behind the solution with particular care for those issues that, from our experience, are found most difficult from the average student. Indeed, several exercises are designed to throw light on aspects of the theory that, for one reason or another, are usually neglected with the result to make the students feel uneasy about them. In fact most students get acquainted just with the more common manipulations, which are illustrated by many examples in textbooks. Our exercises never require extensive calculations but tend to be somewhat unusual and force the solver to think about the problem starting from the principles, rather than by analogy with some previously solved exercise.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Summary of Quantum and Statistical Mechanics....Pages 3-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Formalism of Quantum Mechanics and One Dimensional Problems....Pages 39-112
Angular Momentum and Spin....Pages 113-144
Central Force Field....Pages 145-162
Perturbation Theory and WKB Method....Pages 163-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Thermodynamics and Microcanonical Ensemble....Pages 193-226
Canonical Ensemble....Pages 227-288
Grand Canonical Ensemble....Pages 289-299
Kinetic Physics....Pages 301-313
Bose-Einstein Gases....Pages 315-335
Fermi-Dirac Gases....Pages 337-362
Fluctuations and Complements....Pages 363-392
Back Matter....Pages 393-399

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics;Thermodynamics;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity