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Lectures on quantum mechanics

By Gordon Baym

Book information

Publisher
Westview Press
Year
1974
ISBN
0805306676, 9780805306675
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (7630818 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes & Supplements in Physics
Pages
604\604
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26

Description

These lecture notes comprise a three-semester graduate course in quantum mechanics at the University of Illinois. The notes, presented here in slightly revised form, constitute a self-contained course in quantum mechanics from first principles to elementary and relativistic one-particle mechanics. Prerequisite to reading these notes is some familiarity with elementary quantum mechanics, at least at the undergraduate level. Preferably the reader should already have met the uncertainty principle and the concept of a wave function. Prerequisites also include sufficient acquaintance with complex cariables to be able to do simple contour integrals and to understand words such as "poles" and "branch cuts." An elementary knowledge of Fourier transforms and series is necessary. Assumes an awareness of classical electrodynamics.

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