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• Contents in Brief
• Contents
• Preface
• 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
• Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems
• Index
• Constants and Conversion Factors