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This primer introduces simple, straightforward quantum science principles to motivated science students from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds, using a minimum of mathematical formalism and offering readers the means to achieve significant conceptual clarity and depth of what can often seem like complex material.
List of contents
The Basics
1 Introducing Quantum Mechanics
2 The Schrödinger Equation
3 Deriving the Schröinger Equation
4 Operators, Oscillations, Uncertainty, and Quanta
5 Separation of Variables
6 ψ(x): General Conditions, Normalization, Bra-kets
One-Dimensional Potentials
7 Solving the TISE for the Simplest Potentials
8 The One-Dimensional Particle in a Box
9 The Formal Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
10 Simple Harmonic Oscillator (SHO): V = ½ kx2
Approximation Methods
11 Time-Independent Perturbation Theory (TIPT)
12 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory (TDPT)
13 Variational Method
Three-Dimensional Space: Atoms and Molecules
14 Generalization to 3D
15 Angular Momentum
16 H-Atom: Solving the Radial TISE
17 Introduction to Multi-Electron Atoms, Molecules, and Spectroscopy
About the author
Steven M. Pascal is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Old Dominion University. He has previously taught medical students at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and physics students at Massey University in New Zealand. His previous book entitled NMR Primer: An HSQC Approach presents the basics of NMR needed by biological spectroscopists in a rigorous but mostly visual manner.
Summary
This primer introduces simple, straightforward quantum science principles to motivated science students from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds, using a minimum of mathematical formalism and offering readers the means to achieve significant conceptual clarity and depth of what can often seem like complex material.
