Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: in Chemistry, Materials Science, and Biology

Preface 1. ATOMS AND PHOTONS 1.1 Atomic and Su batomic Particles 1.2 Electromagnetic Waves 1. 3 Three Failures of Classical Physics 1.4 Blackbody Radiati on 1.5 The Photoelectric Effect
1.6 Line Spec tra 1A. Maxwell’s Equations 1B. Planck Radiati on Law 2. WAVES AND PARTICLES 2.1 Double-Slit Experiment 2.2 Wave-Particle Duality 2.3 The S chr odinger Equation 2.4 Operators and Eigenvalues 2.5 The Wavefunction Exercises 3 SIMPLE SYSTEMS 3.1 Free Particle 3.2 Particle in a Box 3.3 Free-Electron Model 3.4 Three-Dimensional Box Exercises 4. PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS 4.1 Hermitian Operators 4.2 Eigenvalues and Eigenfuncti ons 4.3 Expectation Values 4.4 More on Operato rs 4.5 Postulates of Quantum Mechanics 4.6 Dir ac Notation 4.7 Variational Principle 4.8 Spec