Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J Griffiths

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J Griffiths

Written by the author of the best-selling E & M text, this text is designed to teach students how to DO quantum mechanics. Part I covers the basic theory; Part II develops approximation schemes and real-world applications. *offers an unusually readable, consistent, and honest discussion of fundamental ideas. *some books allow students to assume that there are no conceptual problems with quantum mechanics, or conceal the interpretative difficulties with abstract language and dogmatic assertions. Griffiths acknowledges, from the beginning, both the difficulty in understanding quantum mechanics, and the controversy surrounding some of the fundamental ideas. *avoids a now-unnecessary historical discussion. Starts immediately with quantum mechanics - the Schr?dinger equation, and its statistical interpretation, is introduced on the second page. *explores several exceptionally up-to-date topics - e.g., adiabatic processes (and a treatment of Berrys phase); Bells theorem; the quantum Zeno paradox; and, where appropriate, cites recent papers in the accessible literature. *contains 315 graded problems offering a wide range of difficulty. **essential, "confidence builders"; ***more difficult and less crucial; ****most difficult - an hour or more; *no stars: good exercise but not essential or difficult.

Harvard University awarded David Griffiths a BA and a PhD. Before joining the faculty at Reed College, he held postdoctoral posts at the University of Utah and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), as well as teaching roles at Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Trinity College (Hartford). He was a visiting professor of physics at the Five Colleges (UMass, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Hampshire) in 2001-2002, and he taught electrodynamics at Stanford in the spring of 2007. Griffiths is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Consultant Editor for The American Journal of Physics. The American Organization of Physics Teachers gave him the Millikan Award in 1997.

He's taken sabbaticals at SLAC, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and the University of California, Berkeley. His recent study is in electrodynamics and quantum mechanics, despite his PhD in elementary particle theory. Introduction to Electrodynamics (Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2013), Introduction to Elementary Particles (Second Edition, Wiley-VCH, 2008), and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2005) are among his publications.

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ISBN 13	9780131244054
ISBN 10	0131244051
Title	Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Author	David J Griffiths
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	1995-01-19
Number of pages	416
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