Albert Messiah

Quantum Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics)

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ISBN 13:
9780486784557
author:
Albert Messiah
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Dover Publications Inc.
language:
English
Publication Year:
2014
Pages:
1152
Dimensions:
5.7 x 14 x 21.6 cm
Genre:
Science & Nature, Mathematics, Education
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 4 working days
£46.68

Description

Quantum Mechanics by Albert Messiah provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the subject. This single-volume translation covers formalism and its interpretation, starting with the origins of quantum theory and examining matter waves, the Schrödinger equation, and one-dimensional quantized systems. The book then explores symmetries and invariance, including angular momentum, identical particles, and conservation laws, before moving on to methods of approximation such as stationary perturbations and collision theory. The final chapters review relativistic quantum mechanics, with useful appendixes at the end of each volume. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as professionals in physics, this book offers a clear and detailed presentation of quantum mechanics.

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