Quantum mechanics / P. C. W. Davies.
By: Davies, P. C. W
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BookSeries: Student physics series.Publisher: London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1984Description: x, 139 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0710099622 .Subject(s): Quantum theoryDDC classification: 530.12 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 530.12 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 01/05/2024 | 00037871 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Quantum mechanics is the key to modern physics and chemistry, yet it is notoriously difficult to understand. This book is designed to overcome that obstacle. Clear and concise, it provides an easily readable introduction intended for science undergraduates with no previous knowledge of quantum theory, leading them through to the advanced topics usually encountered at the final year level. Although the subject matter is standard, novel techniques have been employed that considerably simplify the technical presentation. The authors use their extensive experience of teaching and popularizing science to explain the many difficult, abstract points of the subject in easily comprehensible language. Helpful examples and thorough sets of exercises are also given to enable students to master the subject.
Includes index.
Preliminary concepts -- Wave mechanics I -- Wave mechanics II -- The formal rules of quantum mechanics -- Angular momentum -- Particle in a central potential -- Approximation methods -- Transitions.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster. He received degrees in physics from University College, London.He was Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney and has held previous academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Adelaide. Most of his research has been in the area of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
Davies has also has written many books for the general reader in the fascinating fields of cosmology and physics. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including The Mind of God, Other Worlds, God and the New Physics, The Edge of Infinity, The Cosmic Blueprint, Are We Alone?, The Fifth Miracle, The Last Three Minutes, About Time, and How to Build a Time Machine.
His awards include an Advance Australia Award for outstanding contributions to science, two Eureka Prizes, the 2001 Kelvin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, and the 2002 Faraday Prize by The Royal Society for Progress in religion. He also received the Templeton Prize for his contributions to the deeper implications of science. In April 1999 the asteroid 1992 OG was officially named (6870) Pauldavies in his honour.
(Bowker Author Biography)