Essential quantum physics

by Landshoff, Peter

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Title Statements

Full title :Essential quantum physics / Peter Landshoff, Allen Metherell, Gareth Rees.

Summary

"This book provides a first course on quantum mechanics and describes simple applications to physical phenomena that are of immediate and everyday interest. The first five chapters introduce the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and are followed by a revision quiz with which readers may test their understanding. The remaining chapters describe applications, including the physics of lasers, molecular binding, simple properties of crystalline solids arising from their band structure, and the operation of junction transistors. This new edition (first edition entitled Simple Quantum Physics) has been expanded to include a chapter on the theory of spin and its application to magnetic resonance imaging, as well as a description of the WKB approximation and its application to alpha decay. Ideal either as a course text or a self-study text, the book contains nearly 100 exercises and hints to their solution." --Publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1997.
Edition:New ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1997.

Notes

Prev. ed. published under title: Simple quantum physics. 1979.

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 204 pages ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521620112, 9780521620116, 0521629934, 9780521629935
oclc:ocm37132523
LC Classification:QC174.12
Dewey Decimal:530.12

Constants of quantum physics -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. The Schrodinger equation -- 3. Special solutions -- 4. The superposition principle -- 5. The hydrogen atom -- Revision quiz -- 6. The hydrogen molecule -- 7. Introduction to perturbation theory -- 8. Spin -- 9. Masers and lasers -- 10. Band structure of crystals -- 11. Electron motion in crystals -- 12. Transistors -- App. A. Power-series solutions -- App. B. The delta function and Fourier transforms -- App. C. Orbital-angular-momentum operators -- App. D. Electrodynamics -- App. E. Bloch waves.