Introductory quantum mechanics /
Richard L. Liboff.
- 4th ed.
- Utter Pradesh : Pearson Education, 2003
- xvii, 878 p.
Part I. Elementary principles and applications to problems in one dimension -- Review of concepts of classical mechanics -- Historical review: experiments and theories -- The postulates of quantum mechanics. Operators, eigenfunctions, and eigenvalues --Preparatory concepts. Function spaces and hermitian operators -- Superposition and compatible observables -- Time development, conservation theorems, and parity -- Additional one-dimensional problems. Bound and unbound states -- Finite potential well, periodic lattice, and some simple problems with two degrees of freedom -- Part II. Further development of the theory and applications to problems in three dimensions. Angular momentum -- Problems in three dimensions -- Elements of matrix mechanics. Spin wavefunctions -- Application to atomic, molecular, solid-state, and nuclear physics. Elements of quantum statistics -- Perturbation theory -- Scattering in three dimensions -- Relativistic quantum mechanics -- Quantum computing.