Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 The Photoelectric Effect
1.2 The Compton Effect
1.3 The Diffraction of Electrons
1.4 The Stem-Gerlach Experiment
2 Light Waves, Photons
2.1 Harmonic Plane Waves, Phase Velocity
2.2 Light Wave Incident on a Glass Surface
2.3 Light Wave Traveling through a Glass Plate
2.4 Free Wave Packet
2.5 Wave Packet Incident on a Glass Surface
2.6 Wave Packet Traveling through a Glass Plate
2.7 The Photon
3 Probability Waves of Matter
3.1 de Broglie Waves
3.2 Wave Packet, Dispersion
3.3 Probability Interpretation, Uncertainty Principle
3.4 The Schrodinger Equation
3.5 Bivariate Gaussian Probability Density
3.6 Comparison with a Classical Statistical Description
4 Solution of the Schrodinger Equation in One Dimension
4.1 Separation of Time and Space Coordinates,Stationary Solutions
4.2 Stationary Scattering Solutions. Piecewise Constant Potential
4.3 Stationary Scattering Solutions. Linear Potentials
4.4 Stationary Bound States
5 One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics:Scattering by a Potential
5.1 Sudden Acceleration and Deceleration of a Particle
5.2 Sudden Deceleration of a Classical Phase-Space Distribution
5.3 Tunnel Effect
5.4 Excitation and Decay of Metastable States
5.5 Stationary States of Sharp Momentum
5.6 FreeFallofaBody
6 One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics:Motion within a Potential, Stationary Bound States
6.1 Spectrum of a Deep Square Well
6.2 Particle Motion iri a Deep Square Well
6.3 Spectrum of the Harmonic-Oscillator Potential
6.4 Harmonic Particle Motion
6.5 Hannonic Motion of a Classical Phase-Space Distribution
6.6 Spectra of Squ'are-Well Potentials of Finite Depths
6.7 Periodic Potentials, Band Spectra
7 Coupled Harmonic Oscillators: Distinguishable Particles
7.1 The Two-Particle Wave Function
7.2 Coupled Hannonic Oscillators
7.3 Stationary States
8 Coupled Harmonic Oscillators: Indistinguishable Particles
8.1 The Two-Particle Wave Function for Indistinguishable Particles
8.2 Stationary States
8.3 Motion of Wave Packets
8.4 Indistinguishable Particles from a Classical Point of View
9 Wave Packet in Three Dimensions
9.1 Momentum
9.2 Angular Momentum, Spherical Harmonics
9.3 Means and Variances of the Componentsof Angular Momentum
9.4 Interpretation of the Eigenfunctions of Angular Momentum
9.5 Schrodinger Equation
9.6 Solution of the Schrodinger Equation of Pree Motion
9.7 Spherical Bessel Functions
9.8 Hannonic Plane Wave in Angular-Momentum Representation
9.9 Frec Wave Packet and Partial-Wave Decomposition
10 Solution of the Schrodinger Equation in Three Dimensions
10.1 Stationary Scattering Solutions
10.2 Stationary Bound States
11 Three-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics:Scattering by a Potential
11.1 Diffraction of a Harmonic Plane Wave. Partial Waves
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12 Three-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics: Bound States
13 Three-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics: Resonance Scattering
14 Coulomb Scattering
15 Spin
16 Examples from Experiment
A Simple Aspects of the Structure of Quantum Mechanics
B Two-Level System
C Analyzing Amplitude
D Wigner Distribution
E Ganuna Function
F Bessel Functions and Airy Functions
G Poisson Distribution
Index