Tilak Sinha (Narsinha Dutt College, Howrah, India)

An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

From Facts to Formalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a constructive approach to the inner product space formulation of Quantum Mechanics as opposed to inductive approaches based on intuitive associations or blatant axiomatic approaches. It strives to explain the purpose and meaning of the mathematical framework used in the standard description of Quantum Mechanics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 242mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780367547073
• ISBN-10: 0367547074
• Artikelnr.: 62225862

Autorenporträt

Tilak Sinha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah, India. He did his PhD on nonperturbative aspects of quantum field theory from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, and held a research position in the University of Wuppertal, Germany before joining Narasinha Dutt College in 2007. His interests include ontological and epistemological issues in the foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, and Physics Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Prologue. Theoretical Framework - A Working Definition. The
Empirical Basis of QM. States as Vectors. Observables as Operators.
Imprecise Measurements and Degeneracy. Time Evolution of Quantum Systems.
Continuous Spectra. Three Classic Eigenvalue Problems. QM of Composite
Systems. A Probability. B Linear Algebra. Bibliography. Index.