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Globally, Quantum mechanics is a course that is offered to ALL undergraduate and graduate level students in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering. Consequently, every year a very large number of students study Quantum Mechanics. Thus, there is a big market for books on Quantum Mechanics and for this reason, there are many textbooks on Quantum Mechanics which are already available. So, the obvious question is that with so many good books already available, why should one change to this book? The book by Ghatak and Lokanathan is being extensively used in India and in spite of the fact that inexpensive Indian editions of almost all good books on Quantum Mechanics are available, a large number of universities in India have changed over to use this book as the main text primarily due to the following reasons: Because of what has been mentioned above, the book could be used as a successful text at many universities in Europe, Canada and USA.

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Author:   Ajoy Ghatak ,  S. Lokanathan
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2004 ed.
Volume:   137
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.601kg
ISBN:  

9781402021299

ISBN 10:   1402021291
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   31 March 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

I: Mathematical Preliminaries.- 1: The Dirac Delta Function.- 2: Fourier Transforms.- II: Basic Quantum Mechanics.- 3: Particles and Waves and the Uncertainty Principle.- 4: Time Dependent Schrödinger Equation.- 5: Propagation of Wave Packets and Concept of Group Velocity.- 6: Bound State Solutions of the Schrödinger Equation.- 7: Linear Harmonic Oscillator: I Solution of the Schrödinger Equation and Relationship with the Classical Oscillator.- 8: One-Dimensional Barrier Transmission Problems.- 9: Angular Momentum I The Spherical Harmonics.- 10: Spherically Symmetric Potentials Hydrogen Atom Problem, Rotation Vibration Spectra, Three-Dimensional Oscillator.- 11: Dirac’s Bra and Ket Algebra.- 12: Linear Harmonic Oscillator II Solutions Using Bra and Ket Algebra.- 13: Angular Momentum II Using Bra and Ket Algebra.- 14: Experiments with Spin Half Particles The Stern-Gerlach Experiment, Larmor Precession and Magnetic Resonance.- 15: Angular momentum III Eigenfunctions Using Operator Algebra.- 16: The Double Well Potential and the Krönig-Penney Model.- 17: The JWKB Approximation.- 18: Addition of Angular Momenta: The Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients.- 19: Time Independent Perturbation Theory.- 20: Effects of Magnetic Field.- 21: The Variational Method.- 22: The Helium Atom and the Exclusion Principle.- 23: Some Select Topics.- 24: Elementary Theory of Scattering.- 25: Time Dependent Perturbation Theory.- 26: The Semi-Classical Theory of Radiation and the Einstein Coefficients.- 27: The Quantum Theory of Radiation and Its Interaction with Matter.- 28: Relativistic Theory.- Appendices.

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