Table of Contents

Preface, 1 Preliminary concepts, 2 Wave mechanics, 3 One-climensional delta wells, 4 Wave mechanics, 5 Scattering in three dimensions, 6 The formal rules of quantum mechanics, 7 Angular momentum, 8 Particle in a central potential, 9 Some atomic physics, 10 Approximation methods, 11 Transitions, Appendix A The one-dimensional infinite array of delta wells (Kronig-Penney model), Appendix B Spherical harmonics, Appendix C The Dirac delta function, Appendix D Useful quantities, Appendix E Useful integrals, Appendix F Exercises, Appendix G Answers to exercises, Index

About the Author

Macquarie University, Australia University of Sussex, UK

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