Format:
1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9781351420419
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1: Preliminary concepts -- 1.1 Origins -- 1.2 Collapse of determinism -- 1.3 Matter waves -- 1.4 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- 1.5 When is a wave a particle? -- 1.6 Schrödinger's wave equation -- 2: Wave mechanics 1 -- 2.1 Time-independent Schrödinger equation -- 2.2 The infinite square-well potential -- 2.3 Degeneracy and parity -- 2.4 Finite square well -- 2.5 Bouncing ball -- 3: One-dimensional delta wells -- 3.1 The single one-dimensional delta well -- 3.2 The one-dimensional triple delta well -- 4: Wave mechanics 2 -- 4.1 Simple harmonic oscillator -- 4.2 Hydrogen atom -- 4.3 Free particles -- 4.4 Scattering from a potential step -- 4.5 Tunnelling -- 4.6 Many-particle wave functions -- 5: Scattering in three dimensions -- 5.1 Partial wave analysis -- 5.2 Attractive spherical well in the limit of low energy S-wave scattering -- 5.3 Repulsive spherical obstacle -- 6: The formal rules of quantum mechanics -- 6.1 Wave superposition in vector language -- 6.2 Operators -- 6.3 Momentum and position eigenstates -- 6.4 Compatible observables and commutation relations -- 6.5 Symmetry and conservation laws -- 6.6 Summary -- 7: Angular momentum -- 7.1 Operators and commutators -- 7.2 Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues -- 7.3 Matrix formulation -- 7.4 Intrinsic spin -- 7.5 Spin eigenvectors -- 7.6 Illustrating the rules of quantum mechanics -- 7.7 Magnetic moment -- 7.8 Spin wave functions -- 8: Particle in a central potential -- 8.1 Separation of radial and angular variables -- 8.2 Radial square well -- 8.3 Hydrogen atom -- 9: Some atomic physics -- 9.1 Addition of angular momenta -- 9.2 Addition of orbital and spin angular momenta -- 9.3 Spin-orbit coupling -- 9.4 A further relativistic effect
Content:
9.5 Effect on a one-electron atom of an externally applied magnetic field: Zeeman effect -- 10: Approximation methods -- 10.1 Perturbation theory -- 10.2 Applications of perturbation theory -- 10.3 The variational method -- 11: Transitions -- 11.1 Time-dependent perturbation theory -- 11.2 Harmonic perturbation -- 11.3 Energy-time uncertainty relation and Fermi's golden rule -- 11.4 Emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation by atoms -- 11.5 Spontaneous emission of radiation -- Appendix A: The one-dimensional infinite array of delta wells (Kronig-Penney model) -- Appendix B: Spherical harmonics -- Appendix C:P The Dirac delta function -- Appendix D: Useful quantities -- Appendix E: Useful integrals -- Appendix F: Exercises -- Appendix G: Answers to exercises -- Index
Additional Edition:
9780748744466
Additional Edition:
Print version Davies, Paul C. W Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition Boca Raton : Routledge,c2018 9780748744466
Language:
English
