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PublisherSpringer Berlin / Heidelberg

ISBN-103540650350

ISBN-139783540650355

eBay Product ID (ePID)427048

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXv, 620 Pages

Publication NamePractical Quantum Mechanics

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

SubjectPhysics / Quantum Theory, General, Physics / General

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

AuthorSiegfried Flügge

Subject AreaMathematics, Science

SeriesClassics in Mathematics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight69.5 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN98-045580

Dewey Edition21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal530.12

Table Of ContentI. General Concepts.- II. One-Body Problems without Spin.- III. Particles with Spin.- IV. Many-Body Problems.- V. Non-Stationary Problems.- VI. The Relativistic Dirac Equation.- VII. Radiation Theory.- Mathematical Append.- Coordinate systems.- ? function.- Bessel functions.- Legendre functions.- Spherical harmonics.- The hypergeometric series.- The confluent scries.- Some functions defined by integrals.- Index for Volumes I and II.

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisThis work was first published in 1947 in German under the title "Re chenmethoden der Quantentheorie". It was meant to serve a double purpose: to help both, the student when first confronted with quantum mechanics and the experimental scientist, who has never before used it as a tool, to learn how to apply the general theory to practical problems of atomic physics. Since that early date, many excellent books have been written introducing into the general framework of the theory and thus indispensable to a deeper understanding. It seems, however, that the more practical side has been somewhat neglected, except, of course, for the flood of special monographs going into broad detail on rather restricted topics. In other words, an all-round introduction to the practical use of quantum mechanics seems, so far, not to exist and may still be helpful. It was in the hope of filling this gap that the author has fallen in with the publishers' wish to bring the earlier German editions up to date and to make the work more useful to the worldwide community of science students and scientists by writing the new edition in English. From the beginning there could be no doubt that the work had to be much enlarged. New approximation methods and other developments, especially in the field of scattering, had to be added. It seemed necessary to include relativistic quantum mechanics and to offer, at least, a glimpse of radiation theory as an example of wave field quantization., From the reviews: "The student who can master these problems will have a good grasp of the practical applications of quantum theory and, therefore, of the basic concepts as well. I recommend the book unreservedly." --The Australian Physicist, May 1972., This work was first published in 1947 in German under the title "Re- chenmethoden der Quantentheorie". It was meant to serve a double purpose: to help both, the student when first confronted with quantum mechanics and the experimental scientist, who has never before used it as a tool, to learn how to apply the general theory to practical problems of atomic physics. Since that early date, many excellent books have been written introducing into the general framework of the theory and thus indispensable to a deeper understanding. It seems, however, that the more practical side has been somewhat neglected, except, of course, for the flood of special monographs going into broad detail on rather restricted topics. In other words, an all-round introduction to the practical use of quantum mechanics seems, so far, not to exist and may still be helpful. It was in the hope of filling this gap that the author has fallen in with the publishers' wish to bring the earlier German editions up to date and to make the work more useful to the worldwide community of science students and scientists by writing the new edition in English. From the beginning there could be no doubt that the work had to be much enlarged. New approximation methods and other developments, especially in the field of scattering, had to be added. It seemed necessary to include relativistic quantum mechanics and to offer, at least, a glimpse of radiation theory as an example of wave field quantization.

LC Classification NumberQA1-939