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Quantum Mechanics

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  • © 1979

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Authors:
  1. Arno Böhm

    1. Department of Physics Center for Particle Theory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

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Part of the book series: Texts and Monographs in Physics (TEMP)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Mathematical Preliminaries

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    Pages 1-8

  3. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics—The Harmonic Oscillator

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    Pages 9-83

  4. Energy Spectra of Some Molecules

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    Pages 84-124

  5. Complete Systems of Commuting Observables

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    Pages 125-128

  6. Addition of Angular Momenta—The Wigner-Eckart Theorem

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    Pages 129-170

  7. Hydrogen Atom—The Quantum-Mechanical Kepler Problem

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    Pages 171-188

  8. Alkali Atoms and the Schrödinger Equation of One-Electron Atoms

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    Pages 189-206

  9. Perturbation Theory

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    Pages 207-217

  10. Electron Spin

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    Pages 218-236

  11. Indistinguishable Particles

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    Pages 237-244

  12. Two-Electron Systems—The Helium Atom

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    Pages 245-273

  13. Time Evolution

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    Pages 274-291

  14. Change of the State by the Dynamical Law and by the Measuring Process—The Stern-Gerlach Experiment

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    Pages 292-305

  15. Transitions in Quantum Physical Systems—Cross Section

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    Pages 306-334

  16. Formal Scattering Theory and Other Theoretical Considerations

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    Pages 335-355

  17. Elastic and Inelastic Scattering for Spherically Symmetric Interactions

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    Pages 356-371

  18. Free and Exact Radial Wave Functions

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    Pages 372-398

  19. Resonance Phenomena

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    Pages 399-450

  20. Time Reversal

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    Pages 451-462
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About this book

This book was written as a text, although many may consider it a mono­ graph. As a text it has been used several times in both the one-year graduate quantum-mechanics course and (in its shortened version) in a senior quantum mechanics course that I taught at the University of Texas at Austin. It is self-contained and does not require any prior knowledge of quantum mechanics. It also introduces the mathematical language of quantum mechanics, starting with the definitions, and attempts to teach this language by using it. Therefore, it can, in principle, be read without prior knowledge of the theory of linear operators and linear spaces, though some familiarity with linear algebra would be helpful. Prerequisites are knowledge of calculus and of vector algebra and analysis. Also used in a few places are some elementary facts of Fourier analysis and differential equations. Most physical examples are taken from the fields of atomic and molecular physics, as it is these fields that are best known to students at the stage when they learn quantum mechanics. This book may be considered a monograph because the presentation here is different from the usual treatment in many standard textbooks on quantum mechanics. It is not that a "different kind" of quantum mechanics is pre­ sented here; this is conventional quantum mechanics (" Copenhagen inter­ pretation ").

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  • Department of Physics Center for Particle Theory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Arno Böhm

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