Quantum Mechanics

Description

There are very basic laws of physics going on all around us that we instinctively grasp – gravity makes things fall to the ground, pushing something makes it move, two things can’t occupy the same place at the same time. At the turn of the century, scientists thought that these laws apply to everything in nature. That was until they began to study the world of the ultra-small. Atoms, electrons, light waves, none of these things followed the normal rules. As physicists began to study particles, they discovered new physics laws that were downright quirky; these were the laws of Quantum Mechanics. They dealt with physical phenomena at nanoscopic scales where the action is on the order of the Planck constant. Quantum Mechanics provides a mathematical description of much of the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter. This textbook is aimed at graduates and post-graduate students needing a textbook for a comprehensive treatment of Quantum Mechanics.