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Author(s): John Townsend, Laurel Muller
ISBN(s): 9781891389627, 1891389629
Edition: First
File Details: PDF, 82.76 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1891389629 
ISBN 13: 9781891389627
Author: John Townsend, Laurel Muller

This brilliantly innovative textbook is intended as a first introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications. Townsend’s new text shuns the historical ordering that characterizes so-called Modern Physics textbooks and applies a truly modern approach to this subject, starting instead with contemporary single-photon and single-atom interference experiments. The text progresses naturally from a thorough introduction to wave mechanics through applications of quantum mechanics to solid-state, nuclear, and particle physics, thereby including most of the topics normally presented in a Modern Physics course. Examples of topics include blackbody radiation, Bose-Einstein condensation, the band-structure of solids and the silicon revolution, the curve of binding energy and nuclear fission and fusion, and the Standard Model of particle physics. Students can see in quantum mechanics a common thread that ties these topics into a coherent picture of how the world works, a picture that gives students confidence that quantum mechanics really works, too. The book also includes a chapter-length appendix on special relativity for the benefit of students who have not had a previous exposure to this subject.Translation into Chinese.

Quantum Physics A Fundamental Approach to Modern Physics 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 Light
1.1 Waves
1.2 Interference and Diffraction: The Wave Nature of Light
1.3 Photons: The Particle Nature of Light
1.4 Probability and the Quantum Nature of Light
1.5 Interference with Single Photons
1.6 The Double-Slit Experiment
1.7 Diffraction Gratings
1.8 The Principle of Least Time
1.9 Summary
CHAPTER 2 Wave Mechanics
2.1 Atom Interferometry
2.2 Crystal Diffraction
2.3 The Schrodinger Equation
2.4 The Physical Significance of the Wave Function
2.5 Conservation of Probability
2.6 Wave Packets and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
2.7 Phase and Group Velocity
2.8 Expectation Values and Uncertainty
2.9 Ehrenfest’s Theorem
2.10 Summary
CHAPTER 3 The Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation
3.1 Separation of Variables
3.2 The Particle in a Box
3.3 Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
3.4 The Energy Operator: Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions
3.5 Summary
CHAPTER 4 One-Dimensional Potentials
4.1 The Finite Square Well
4.2 Qualitative Features
4.3 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator
4.4 The Dirac Delta Function Potential
4.5 The Double Well and Molecular Binding
4.6 Scattering and the Step Potential
4.7 Tunneling and the Square Barrier
4.8 Summary
CHAPTER 5 Principles of Quantum Mechanics
5.1 The Parity Operator
5.2 Observables and Hermitian Operators
5.3 Commuting Operators
5.4 Noncommuting Operators and Uncertainty Relations
5.5 Time Development
5.6 EPR, Schrodinger’s Cat, and All That
5.7 Summary
CHAPTER 6 Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions
6.1 The Three-Dimensional Box
6.2 Orbital Angular Momentum
6.3 The Hydrogen Atom
6.4 The Zeeman Effect
6.5 Intrinsic Spin
6.6 Summary
CHAPTER 7 Identical Particles
7.1 Multiparticle Systems
7.2 Identical Particles in Quantum Mechanics
7.3 Multielectron Atoms
7.4 The Fermi Energy
7.5 Quantum Statistics
7.6 Cavity Radiation
7.7 Bose–Einstein Condensation
7.8 Lasers
7.9 Summary
CHAPTER 8 Solid-State Physics
8.1 The Band Structure of Solids
8.2 Electrical Properties of Solids
8.3 The Silicon Revolution
8.4 Superconductivity
8.5 Summary
CHAPTER 9 Nuclear Physics
9.1 Nuclear Notation and Properties
9.2 The Curve of Binding Energy
9.3 Radioactivity
9.4 Nuclear Fission
9.5 Nuclear Fusion
9.6 Nuclear Weapons: History and Physics
9.7 Summary
CHAPTER 10 Particle Physics
10.1 Quantum Electrodynamics
10.2 Elementary Particles
10.3 Hadrons
10.4 Quantum Chromodynamics
10.5 Quantum Flavor Dynamics
10.6 Mixing Angles
10.7 Symmetries and Conservation Laws
10.8 The Standard Model
10.9 Summary
APPENDIX A Special Relativity
A.1 The Relativity Principle
A.2 The Postulates of Special Relativity
A.3 The Lorentz Transformation
A.4 Four-vectors
A.5 Momentum and Energy
APPENDIX B Power-Series Solutions
B.1 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator
B.2 Orbital Angular Momentum
B.3 The Hydrogen Atom

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