Baggio
Jan23-04, 09:09 AM
Hi I'm looking to buy a good QM text book, does anyone know of any?
I need a book covering at least the following
The first postulate - the wavefunction to describe the state of a system.
The principle of superposition of states.
Operators and their rôle in quantum mechanics.
The correspondence principle.
Measurement, Hermitian operators and eigenvalue equations.
The uncertainty principle - compatibility of measurements and commuting of operators.
The time dependent Schrödinger equation.
The angular momentum operators and their commutators.
The eigenvalues of the angular momentum operators, the l and m quantum numbers.
The eigenfunctions of the angular momentum operators, the Spherical Harmonics.
The hydrogen atom, the Pauli exclusion principle and the periodic table
Spin. Introduction to concept of spin. Spin of an electron. Empirical evidence. Pauli Spin Matrices.
Approximation methods in quantum mechanics.
Time independent perturbation theory.
non-degenerate; illustration - ground state of helium atom following revision of hydrogen atom.
degenerate; illustration - Stark effect in hydrogen atom.
Variational methods
Rayleigh - Ritz; illustration - ground state of helium atom
Atomic structures.
Hydrogen atom spectrum - Lyman, Balmer series of spectral lines.
Spin and the Zeeman effect.
Addition of angular momenta.
Spin - Orbit coupling in atoms.
Spectra of alkali metal atoms.
Many electron effects - indistinguishability of identical particles.
Identical particles and spin. Symmetric and anti-symmetric states. Pauli principle.
Excited states of helium atom. "Singlets" and "Triplets".
Discussion of periodic table.
The more topics the better
I need a book covering at least the following
The first postulate - the wavefunction to describe the state of a system.
The principle of superposition of states.
Operators and their rôle in quantum mechanics.
The correspondence principle.
Measurement, Hermitian operators and eigenvalue equations.
The uncertainty principle - compatibility of measurements and commuting of operators.
The time dependent Schrödinger equation.
The angular momentum operators and their commutators.
The eigenvalues of the angular momentum operators, the l and m quantum numbers.
The eigenfunctions of the angular momentum operators, the Spherical Harmonics.
The hydrogen atom, the Pauli exclusion principle and the periodic table
Spin. Introduction to concept of spin. Spin of an electron. Empirical evidence. Pauli Spin Matrices.
Approximation methods in quantum mechanics.
Time independent perturbation theory.
non-degenerate; illustration - ground state of helium atom following revision of hydrogen atom.
degenerate; illustration - Stark effect in hydrogen atom.
Variational methods
Rayleigh - Ritz; illustration - ground state of helium atom
Atomic structures.
Hydrogen atom spectrum - Lyman, Balmer series of spectral lines.
Spin and the Zeeman effect.
Addition of angular momenta.
Spin - Orbit coupling in atoms.
Spectra of alkali metal atoms.
Many electron effects - indistinguishability of identical particles.
Identical particles and spin. Symmetric and anti-symmetric states. Pauli principle.
Excited states of helium atom. "Singlets" and "Triplets".
Discussion of periodic table.
The more topics the better