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Elements of Quantum Mechanics
Michael D. Fayer
Oxford University Press, 2001
Elements of Quantum Mechanics is a graduate level textbook that offers an
overview of the basic concepts of quantum mechanics with just the right
amount of material and mix of fundamental theory and practical applications.
It contains a more comprehensive introduction compared to other books that
focus solely on the Schrödinger picture. Operator techniques and the Dirac
notation are introduced in a clear way, which should be widely accessible to
graduate students. Its time dependent viewpoint is very intuitive. It covers
material, such as an introduction to density matrices that is essential for
reading the modern literature. The book further includes topics such as
excitons and wave packets that are not usually covered in the standard
introductory texts.
I have been teaching graduate quantum mechanics for decades, which led to
the development of this book. I have prepared the complete class as a Power
Point slide show. You are welcome to down load the Power Point slides. They
are divided into 17 chapters that correspond to the 17 chapters in the book.
Each chapter of slides is not a single lecture. Depending on the length of
the teaching period, each chapter can be taught in 1 to 3 lectures. These
slides augment the book. They go over material in the book in some places
following the book closely, but in others presenting additional examples and
applications. For example, the development of Fermi’s Golden Rule is in the
Chapter 11 slide show but not in the book.
For instructors who adopt the book, I can also provide all of the problems
and all of the solutions as a word document. This can be used to prepare
problems sets and solutions. You can cut and past the problems using those
you want and adding your own problems. By adopting the book, using the slide
show, the problems, and solutions, the vast work associated with developing
a graduate quantum mechanics course is done for you. Note the Errata and
Addenda posted on this site. These are a necessary companion to the book
that is updated periodically.
If you do not use the book, you are still welcome to down load the slides.
Of course, if you use the slides with or without adopting the book, you are
welcome to modify them to suit your needs. I hope you find them useful.
MDF
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