F. S. Levin received his undergraduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. from University of Maryland. Following post-doctoral positions at Rice University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Author-ity, he accepted an appointment in the Physics Department at Brown University, where he remained for 31 years until his retirement in 1998.
Preface
Part I. Introductory: 1. The need for a non-classical description of microscopic phenomena
2. Classical concepts and quantal inequivalencies
3. Introducing quantum mechanics: a comparison of the classical stretched string and the quantal box
4. Mathematical background
Part II. The Central Concepts: 5. The postulates of quantum mechanics
6. Applications of the postulates: bound states in one dimension
7. Applications of the postulates: continuum states in one dimension
8. Quantal/classical connections
9. Commuting operators, quantum numbers, symmetry properties
Part III. Systems with Few Degrees of Freedom: 10. Orbital angular momentum
11. Two-particle systems, potential-well bound state problems
12. Electromagnetic fields
13. Intrinsic spin, two-state systems
14. Generalized angular momentum and the coupling of angular momenta
15. Three-dimensional continuum states/scattering
Part IV. Complex Systems: 16. Time-dependent approximation methods
17. Time-independent approximation methods
18. Many degrees of freedom: atoms and molecules
Appendix A. Elements of probability theory
Appendix B. Fourier series and integrals
Appendix C. Solution of Legendre's equation
Appendix D. Fundamental and derived quantities, conversion factors
References.
