1st Edition

How to Be a Quantum Mechanic

By Charles G. Wohl Copyright 2023
396 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

396 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

396 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

How to Be a Quantum Mechanic  is an introduction to quantum mechanics at the upper-division level. It begins with wave-particle duality and ends with a brief introduction to the Dirac equation. Two attitudes went into its writing: Examples are the best way to get into a subject, and numbers and equations alone do not always sum to understanding. The author taught for 40... Read more

1. Strangest things 

2. The Schrodinger Equation. Bound States 

3. Simple Approximations for Bound States 

4. Scattering in One Dimension 

5. Mathematical Formalism 

6. The Harmonic Oscillator 

7. Uncertainty Relations. Simultaneous Eigenstates 

8. Angular Momentum 

9. Hydrogen. The Isotropic Oscillator 

10. Spin 1/2 Particles 

11. Hyperfine Splitting. Two Angular Momenta. Isospin 

12. Cryptography. The EPR Argument. Bell's Inequality  

13. Time-Independent Perturbation Theory 

14. Identical Particles 

15. Time-Dependent Perturbations. Planck and Einstein

16. Scattering in Three Dimensions

17. The Dirac Equation

Biography

Charles G. Wohl taught for 40 years at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley, in experimental elementary-particle physics in the group led by Luis Alvarez.