Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

by J. P. Wittke, Robert H. Dicke, J.P. Wittke, et al.

Book Overview

This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.No dust jacket. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201015102
• ISBN13: 9780201015102
• Release Date: December 1960
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A gem. Still reads very well.

I bought this because it was praised by Sakurai in his _Modern Quantum Mechanics_ book, and also by Gasiorowicz in his book. It is indeed a very well written and lucid book. The traditional wave and matrix mechanics approaches are used, though there's a little bit of Dirac notation (but with round brackets instead of angle brackets!) All the usual topics are here: wave packets, Schrödinger's equation, angular momentum, hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, electromagnetic interaction, scattering, and identical particles. There are helpful background chapters on Fourier techniques and classical mechanics (e.g. Poisson brackets and canonical transformations), a chapter on quantum measurement, one on the correspondence principle, a chapter on transformations of representations, and a final chapter on quantum-statistical mechanics. Overall, the book is very strong on fundamentals, but still manages to be very concise at 369 pages. And, typical of books from this publisher in that era, it's beautifully printed. Used copies seem easy to find, but I hope someone reprints it (Dover, are you listening?)