{"product_id":"mastering-quantum-mechanics-isbn-9780262046138","title":"Mastering Quantum Mechanics","description":"\u003cb\u003eA complete overview of quantum mechanics, covering essential concepts and results, theoretical foundations, and applications.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis undergraduate textbook offers a comprehensive overview of quantum mechanics, beginning with essential concepts and results, proceeding through the theoretical foundations that provide the field’s conceptual framework, and concluding with the tools and applications students will need for advanced studies and for research. Drawn from lectures created for MIT undergraduates and for the popular MITx online course, “Mastering Quantum Mechanics,” the text presents the material in a modern and approachable manner while still including the traditional topics necessary for a well-rounded understanding of the subject. As the book progresses, the treatment gradually increases in difficulty, matching students’ increasingly sophisticated understanding of the material.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e• Part 1 covers states and probability amplitudes, the Schrödinger equation, energy eigenstates of particles in potentials, the hydrogen atom, and spin one-half particles\u003cbr\u003e• Part 2 covers mathematical tools, the pictures of quantum mechanics and the axioms of quantum mechanics, entanglement and tensor products, angular momentum, and identical particles.\u003cbr\u003e• Part 3 introduces tools and techniques that help students master the theoretical concepts with a focus on approximation methods.\u003cbr\u003e• 236 exercises and 286 end-of-chapter problems\u003cbr\u003e• 248 figures\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface xv\u003cbr\u003eI Essentials 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Key Features of Quantum Mechanics 3\u003cbr\u003e2 Light, Particles, and Waves 31\u003cbr\u003e3 Schrodinger Equation 67\u003cbr\u003e4 Wave Packets, Uncertainty, and Momentum Space 93\u003cbr\u003e5 Expectation Values and Hermitian Operators 111\u003cbr\u003e6 Stationary States I: Special Potentials 133\u003cbr\u003e7 Stationary States II: General Features 171\u003cbr\u003e8 Stationary States III: Scattering 211\u003cbr\u003e9 Harmonic Oscillator 233\u003cbr\u003e10 Angular Momentum and Central Potentials 255\u003cbr\u003e11 Hydrogen Atom 281\u003cbr\u003e12 The Simplest Quantum System: Spin One-Half 307\u003cbr\u003eII Theory 335\u003cbr\u003e13 Vector Spaces and Operators 337\u003cbr\u003e14 Inner Products, Adjoints, and Bra-kets 381\u003cbr\u003e15 Uncertainty Principle and Compatible Operators 427\u003cbr\u003e16 Pictures of Quantum Mechanics 459\u003cbr\u003e17 Dynamics of Quantum Systems 481\u003cbr\u003e18 Multiparticle States and Tensor Products 519\u003cbr\u003e19  Angular Momentum and Central Potentials: Part II 555\u003cbr\u003e20 Addition of Angular Momentum 599\u003cbr\u003e21 Identical Particles 639\u003cbr\u003eIII Applications 685\u003cbr\u003e22 Density Matrix and Decoherence 687\u003cbr\u003e23 Quantum Computation 737\u003cbr\u003e24 Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields 761\u003cbr\u003e25 Time-Independent Perturbation Theory 793\u003cbr\u003e26 WKB and Semiclassical Approximation 849\u003cbr\u003e27 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory 891\u003cbr\u003e28 Adiabatic Approximation 953\u003cbr\u003e29 Scattering in One Dimension 999\u003cbr\u003e30 Scattering in Three Dimensions 1025\u003cbr\u003eReferences 1057\u003cbr\u003eIndex 1065“Zwiebach’s book stands out from the many other undergraduate quantum textbooks on the market in the unmatched clarity and attention to detail of the exposition, as well as in its coverage of important modern topics like quantum computation and information.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matthew Headrick, Professor of Physics, Brandeis University\u003c\/b\u003eBarton Zwiebach is Professor of Physics at MIT. His research is in theoretical particle physics and string theory, and he is the author of the undergraduate textbook \u003ci\u003eA First Course in String Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. The creator and lead instructor for the popular MITx “Mastering Quantum Mechanics” course, he taught undergraduate quantum mechanics at MIT from 2010 to 2020.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300980117733,"sku":"NP9780262046138","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262046138.jpg?v=1767732386","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mastering-quantum-mechanics-isbn-9780262046138","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}