Balances mathematical discussions with physical discussions. * Derivations are complete and the theory is applied whenever possible. * Gasiorowicz is a world class researcher in quantum physics.
Stephen George Gasiorowicz was an American theoretical physicist. He was born in Danzig in 1928 and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1952.
New to Edition
The ordering of chapters has been changed so that the book divides more neatly into the basics of quantum mechanics and the most important applications that one would want to cover in a one-semester course.
The discussion of the general structure of wave mechanics and the more abstract description of quantum mechanics (including Dirac Notation) has been expanded.
New topics have been added including a discussion of the three-level system and a chapter on entanglement and macroscopic superposition.
Features
The ordering of chapters has been changed so that the book divides more neatly into the basics of quantum mechanics and the most important applications that one would want to cover in a one-semester course.
The discussion of the general structure of wave mechanics and the more abstract description of quantum mechanics (including Dirac Notation) has been expanded.
New topics have been added including a discussion of the three-level system and a chapter on entanglement and macroscopic superposition.
The treatment of an electron in a magnetic field has been to late place in the book to form a unit (Chs. 16, 17, and 18) on radiative decays and radiation.
