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Berman, Paul Rauthor

1st ed. 2018.

1 online resource (XVI, 637 pages 101 illustrations, 82 illustrations in color.)

UNITEXT for Physics

Introduction -- Mathematical Introduction -- Free Particle Schroedinger Equation - Free-Particle Wave Packets -- Schroedinger's Equation with Potential Energy: Introduction to Operators -- Postulates and Basic Elements of Quantum Mechanics: Properties of Operators -- Problems in 1-dimension: General Considerations, Infinite Well Potential, Piecewise Constant Potentials, and Delta Function Potentials -- Simple Harmonic Oscillator - One Dimension -- Problems in 2 and 3-dimensions - General Considerations -- Central Forces and Angular Momentum -- Spherically Symmetric Potentials - Radial Equation -- Dirac Notation -- Spin -- Important Basics from Phys 453 -- Perturbation Theory -- Variational Approach -- WKB Approximation -- Scattering - 1-D -- Scattering - 3-D -- Symmetries and Transformations -- Rotations - Examples -- Addition of Angular Momentum: Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients -- Vector and Tensor Operators: Wigner-Eckart Theorem -- Spin-Orbit Interactions - Hydrogen Atom with Spin in External Fields -- Time-Dependent Problems -- Approximation Techniques in Time-Dependent Problems -- Fermi's Golden Rule