Lectures On Quantum Mechanics (Lecture Notes and Supplements in Physics)

Baym, Gordon

ISBN 10: 0805306676 / ISBN 13: 9780805306675

Published by The Benjamin / Cummings Publishing Company, 1981

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594 pp, Cover is bright green with white banner on lower front with black lettering on front and spine - minimal edge wear. No highlighting, underlining or notations. Previous owner's name on page ends. (See photos provided). Prompt shipping which includes tracking.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures On Quantum Mechanics (Lecture Notes and Supplements in Physics)
• Publisher: The Benjamin / Cummings Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805306676
• ISBN 13: 9780805306675
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

These lecture notes comprise a three-semester graduate course in quantum mechanics at the University of Illinois. There are a number of texts which present the basic topics very well; but since a fair quantity of the material discussed in my course was not available to the students in elementary quantum mechanics books, I was asked to prepare written notes. In retrospect these lecture notes seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication in this format. The notes, presented here in slightly revised form, consitutute a self-contained course in quantum mechanics from first principles to elementary and relativistic one-particle mechanics. Prerequisite to reading these notes is some familiarity with elementary quantum mechanics, at least at the undergraduate level. Preferably the reader should already have met the uncertainty principle and the concept of a wave function. Prerequisites also include sufficient acquaintance with complex cariables to be able to do simple contour integrals and to understand words such as "poles" and "branch cuts." An elementary knowledge of Fourier transforms and series is necessary. I also assume an awareness of classical electrodynamics.

About the Author

Gordon Baym