Quantum mechanics in simple matrix form /
Jordan, Thomas F., 1936-
Quantum mechanics in simple matrix form / Thomas F. Jordan. - First Edition - xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Dover books on physics .
Originally published: New York : J. Wiley, 1986. Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
A Strange Equation -- Imaginary Numbers -- Matrices -- Pauli Matrices -- Vectors -- Probability -- Basic Rules -- Spin and Magnetic Moment -- Sunrise and First View -- All Quantities Made from Spin -- Non-negative Quantities -- What Can Be Measured -- General Rules -- Two Spins -- Einstein's Instincts -- Bell's Inequalities -- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relation -- Quantized Oscillator Energy -- Bohr's Model -- Angular Momentum -- Rotational Energy -- The Hydrogen Atom -- Spin Rotations -- Small Rotations -- Changes in Space Location -- Changes in Time -- Changes in Velocity -- Invariance and What It Implies.
This elementary text introduces undergraduates with no background in mathematics beyond algebra to basic quantum mechanics. Containing more than 100 problems, it provides an easy way to learn part of the quantum language and apply it to problems. Emphasizing the matrices representing physical quantities, it describes states simply by mean values of physical quantities or by probabilities for possible values. This approach requires using the algebra of matrices and complex numbers together with probabilities and mean values, a technique introduced at the outset and employed repeatedly. 1986 ed. 38 figures.
0486445305 (pbk.) 9780486445304
2005052031
Quantum theory
Matrices
Teoría cuántica
QC174.12 / .J67 2006
530.12
Quantum mechanics in simple matrix form / Thomas F. Jordan. - First Edition - xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Dover books on physics .
Originally published: New York : J. Wiley, 1986. Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
A Strange Equation -- Imaginary Numbers -- Matrices -- Pauli Matrices -- Vectors -- Probability -- Basic Rules -- Spin and Magnetic Moment -- Sunrise and First View -- All Quantities Made from Spin -- Non-negative Quantities -- What Can Be Measured -- General Rules -- Two Spins -- Einstein's Instincts -- Bell's Inequalities -- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relation -- Quantized Oscillator Energy -- Bohr's Model -- Angular Momentum -- Rotational Energy -- The Hydrogen Atom -- Spin Rotations -- Small Rotations -- Changes in Space Location -- Changes in Time -- Changes in Velocity -- Invariance and What It Implies.
This elementary text introduces undergraduates with no background in mathematics beyond algebra to basic quantum mechanics. Containing more than 100 problems, it provides an easy way to learn part of the quantum language and apply it to problems. Emphasizing the matrices representing physical quantities, it describes states simply by mean values of physical quantities or by probabilities for possible values. This approach requires using the algebra of matrices and complex numbers together with probabilities and mean values, a technique introduced at the outset and employed repeatedly. 1986 ed. 38 figures.
0486445305 (pbk.) 9780486445304
2005052031
Quantum theory
Matrices
Teoría cuántica
QC174.12 / .J67 2006
530.12