INTRODUCTION TO THE QUANTUM WORLD OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES

• Main Author: Dahl, Jens Peder (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore World Scientific 2005
• Subjects: Quantum theory; Atoms; Molecules
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This invaluable book provides a balanced and integrated introduction to the quantum world of atoms and molecules. The underlying basis of quantum mechanics is carefully developed, with respect for the historical tradition and from a molecular angle. The fundamental concepts in the theory of atomic a...

Table of Contents:

• The Rise of Atomic Theory
• Early Atomic Theories
• The Chemical Atom
• The Kinetic Molecule
• The Spectroscopic Atom
• Antiatomism
• The Discovery of the Electron. The Planetary Atom
• The Constituents of Atoms and Molecules. The Modern View
• External Interactions. Photons
• The Birth of Quantum Mechanics
• Black-Body Radiation and Planck's Discovery
• Photons and the Photoelectric Effect
• The Photon is a Relativistic Particle
• The Heat-Capacity Problem
• Bohr's Theory of the Hydrogen Atom
• De Broglie Waves
• Wave Mechanics
• The Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation
• The Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation
• Schrodinger Operators
• The Statistical Interpretation
• Particle in a Box
• The One-Dimensional Box
• Orthogonality of Wavefunctions
• Number of Nodes Versus Energy
• Inversion Symmetry
• The Three-Dimensional Box
• The Concept of Degeneracy
• The Free-Electron Model
• Non-Stationary States
• Quantum-Mechanical Operators
• The Bra-Ket Notation
• Linear Operators. The Commutator
• Hermitian Operators. Hermitian Conjugation
• Some Properties of Hermitian Operators
• Expectation Values and Uncertainties
• The Particle in a Box Revisited
• Commuting Hermitian Operators
• The General Uncertainty Principle
• Quantum Theory and Measurements
• Matrix Algebra
• The Free Particle
• The Stationary States of the Free Particle
• Non-Stationary States of the Free Particle
• The Gaussian Wave Packet
• From One to Three Dimensions
• The Harmonic Oscillator.