Quantum Physics

by John S. Townsend

This brilliantly innovative textbook is intended as a first introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications. Townsend's new text shuns the historical ordering that characterizes so-called Modern Physics textbooks and applies a truly modern approach to this subject, starting instead with contemporary single-photon and single-atom interference experiments. The text progresses naturally from a thorough introduction to wave mechanics through applications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891389629
• ISBN13: 9781891389627
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University Science Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.9"