Online version:
Zettili, Nouredine.
Quantum mechanics.
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, c2001
(OCoLC)689444305

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents Origins of Quantum Physics --
Historical Note --
Particle Aspect of Radiation --
Blackbody Radiation --
Photoelectric Effect --
Compton Effect --
Pair Production --
Wave Aspect of Particles --
de Broglie's Hypothesis: Matter Waves --
Experimental Confirmation of de Broglie's Hypothesis --
Matter Waves for Macroscopic Objects --
Particles versus Waves --
Classical View of Particles and Waves --
Quantum View of Particles and Waves --
Wave-Particle Duality: Complementarity --
Principle of Linear Superposition --
Indeterministic Nature of the Microphysical World --
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle --
Probabilistic Interpretation --
Atomic Transitions and Spectroscopy --
Rutherford Planetary Model of the Atom --
Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom --
Quantization Rules --
Wave Packets --
Localized Wave Packets --
Wave Packets and the Uncertainty Relations --
Motion of Wave Packets --
Mathematical Tools of Quantum Mechanics --
The Hilbert Space and Wave Functions --
The Linear Vector Space --
The Hilbert Space --
Dimension and Basis of a Vector Space --
Square-Integrable Functions: Wave Functions --
Dirac Notation --
Operators --
Hermitian Adjoint --
Projection Operators --
Commutator Algebra --
Uncertainty Relation between Two Operators --
Functions of Operators --
Inverse and Unitary Operators --
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of an Operator --
Infinitesimal and Finite Unitary Transformations --
Representation in Discrete Bases --
Matrix Representation of Kets, Bras and Operators --
Change of Bases and Unitary Transformations.

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