Quantum mechanics/
Eugen Merzbacher
- 3rd ed.
- New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
- xvi, 656 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Introduction to quantum mechanics -- Wave packets and free particle motion -- The wave equation -- The wave function and the Schrödinger equation -- The linear harmonic oscillator -- Piecewise constant potentials in one dimension -- The WKB approximation -- The principles of wave mechanics -- Central forces and angular momentum -- Piecewise constant potentials in three dimensions and the hydrogen atom -- Scattering -- The spin -- Dynamics of two-level systems -- Linear vector spaces in quantum mechanics -- Quantum dynamics -- Rotations and other symmetry operations -- Bound state perturbation theory -- Time-dependent perturbation theory -- The formal theory of scattering -- Identical particles -- Applications of second quantization -- Photons and the electromagnetic field -- Relativistic electron theory -- One-electron Dirac theory.