Foreword by Victor F. Weisskopf Preface by the Editor Preface by the Students Introduction 1. Wave Functions of Force-Free Particles 1. Associatioof Waves with Particles 2. The Wave Functioand Wave Equation 3. The Uncertainty Principle 4. Wave Packets and the Mechanics of Point Particles. Probability Density 5. Measuring Arrangements. Discussioof Examples 6. Classical Statistics and Quantum Statistics 2. Descriptioof a Particle ia Box and iFree Space 7. One Particle ia Box. The Equatioof Continuity 8. Normalizatioithe Continuum. The Dirac δ-Function 9. The Completeness Relation. ExpansioTheorem 10. Initial-Value Problem and the Fundamental Solution 3. Particle ia Field of Force 11. The HamiltoniaOperator 12. HermitiaOperators 13. ExpectatioValues and the Classical Equatioof Motion. CommutatioRelations (Commutators) 4. More thaOne Particle 14. More thaOne Particle 5. Eigenvalue Problems. Functions of Mathematical Physics 15. The Linear Harmonic Oscillator. Hermite Polynomials 16. Matrix Calculus Illustrated with the Linear Harmonic Oscillator 17. The Harmonic Oscillator ia Plane. Degeneracy 18. The HydrogeAtom 6. CollisioProcesses 19. Asymptotic Solutioof the Scattering Problem 20. The Scattering Cross Section. The Rutherford Scattering Formula 21. Solutioof the Force-Free Wave Equation 22. Expansioof a Plane Wave in Legendre Polynomials 23. Solutioof the Schr?dinger Equatiowith aArbitrary Central Potential 24. The BorApproximation 25. Scattering of Low-Energy Particles 7. Approximate Methods for Solving the Wave Equation 26. Eigenvalue Problem of a Particle ia Uniform Field 27. The WKB Method 8. Matrices and Operators.PerturbatioTheory 28. General Relationship BetweeMatrices and Operators. TransformatioTheory 29. General Formalism of PerturbatioTheory ithe Matrix Representation 30. Time-Dependent Perturbation 9. Angular Momentum and Spin 31. General CommutatioRelations 32. Matrix Elements of the Angular Momentum 33. Spin 10. Identical Particles with Spin 35. Symmetry Classes 36. The ExclusioPrinciple 37. The Helium Atom
38. Collisioof Two Identical Particles:Mott's Theory 39. The Statistics of Nuclear Spins Exercises 40. Fundamental Solutiofor Interval 41. Bound States and Tunnel Effect 42. Kronig-Penney Potential 43. Spherical Harmonics 44. Fundamental Solutiofor Harmonic Oscillator 45. Angular Momentum 46. Partial Waves 47. The Symmetrical Top Bibliography Appendix. Comments by the Editor Index
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