- Hardcover: 688 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (Feb 5 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470026782
- ISBN-13: 978-0470026786
- Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 17.5 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,145,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The book contains almost six hundred examples, problems and exercises, some of them fully solved. They are intended to empower students to become independent learners and adept practitioners of quantummechanics." (Mathematical Reviews, July 2010)“Zettili provides a second edition of this textbook on quantum mechanics. The material is suitable for two undergraduate semesters and one graduate level semester.” ( Book News, September 2009)
Book Description
Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications provides a clear, balanced and modern introduction to the subject. Written with the student’s background and ability in mind the book takes an innovative approach to quantum mechanics by combining the essential elements of the theory with the practical applications: it is therefore both a textbook and a problem solving book in one self-contained volume. Carefully structured, the book starts with the experimental basis of quantum mechanics and then discusses its mathematical tools. Subsequent chapters cover the formal foundations of the subject, the exact solutions of the Schrödinger equation for one and three dimensional potentials, time-independent and time-dependent approximation methods, and finally, the theory of scattering.
The text is richly illustrated throughout with many worked examples and numerous problems with step-by-step solutions designed to help the reader master the machinery of quantum mechanics. The new edition will be completely updated.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Thoroughly Modern,
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This review is from: Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications (Paperback)
In the graduate quantum mechanics class that I took we referred to this book as the bible. It was not the recommended class text: I've since suggested to the professor that this would be a better text.Of the several Quantum Mechanics books that I've read or inspected, this is the best. Specifically compared with: Quantum Mechanics by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, et al The 1st I used 19 years ago the 1st time I took this subject (same professor as recently by the way) and the 2nd was the recommended course text this time. I really developed a dislike for the Sakurai text. The Cohen-Tannoudji book isn't bad though just a bit quirky in its translated from the French notation and many sections are optional format. Zettili's book just seems to get on with telling you how to do Quantum Mechanics at a Graduate level. It also has a large number of worked problems which are very helpful in understanding how it is really done. The text says it is suitable for undergraduate or graduate level, but I'm not so sure about the undergraduate level. At least, I don't think this would be a good 1st book on Quantum Mechanics. In any case this is a text book, so if you want to learn the topic from this book, you need to solve problems. Though, it is a good reference if you have already learned the subject. The worked problems take the subject from the abstract to the concrete quickly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Could you ask for more ?,
By Andrea (Padova, Italia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications (Paperback)
I had the chance to read and practice at least eleven QM books on theory and eercises [!] but none gave me the opportunity to understand concepts in such an easy and useful way. If you're looking for theory, easy-level examples for gettin' started, solved exercises to better understand and unsolved problems to master the toppings ... well don't look any further ! Advanced, for it involves the "bra-ket" formalism, from the Fundamentals to Scattering theory, and absolutely immediate to study. If I could advice a textbook to any QM teacher ... I would have no doubt !Get this !
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Quantum Mechanics: Another View,
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This review is from: Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications (Hardcover)
Although I will also give this fine text 5 stars, I would do so from a slightly different perspective. This is the best book I have found yet for those who went to grad school in physics some 20 or 30 years ago. It has a great "Here are the facts. Here's why. Here's some worked out examples. Now you try some problems" approach. And, believe it or not, it works pretty well. I am able to work a lot more problems than I could many years ago, and, just like in the past, solving the problems is the real test of the understanding. The section on mathematical tools (the real reason I bought this book) is excellent, but aimed more toward being practical rather than deep. If one wants true mathematical rigor, this isn't the correct book. The real reason I bought this book is to get a deeper understanding of a question I had many years ago: what is the significance of a position representation and a momentum representation and the connection between the two? Back then, I did many of the exercises and transformations, with big, long, pages of integrals. I am afraid I am left wondering what the point was. Zettili's book does an OK job, but there is a lot of other material in here that is much more illuminating and insightful.Well, if this book represents quantum mechanics at an "undergraduate" level, then I congratulate you undergraduates. I didn't learn about commutation relations and matrix representations and much of Dirac's theory until much later in life. The human intelligence is evolving all the time, I guess. Still, for me, it was an excellent review and clarified many a nagging question from an education of long ago.
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