Elements of Quantum Theory

By Frank J. Bockhoff

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201007991
• ISBN13: 9780201007992
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best small-volume "introduction" to wave mechanics!

Frank Bockhoff's Elements of Quantum Theory is the best small-volume "introduction" to wave mechanics for chemists (all scientists?) that I know of. Some of its outstanding features are: answers to problems (a proven pedagogical device for the novice); a pointing out that Schroedinger's wave equation contains a first time derivative (and is therefore of the same form as the diffusion equation),whereas the classical wave equation contains a second time derivative, yet the latter served as the model for the former; an uncommonly detailed treatment of He; an excellent illustration and description of Euler's relation; the list goes on...Oh, and a very illuminating discussion of the connections among linear operators, the Hamiltonian, psi and eigenvalue problems.Most of the typical introductory topics are covered, but in atypical detail. Thank you for shedding light without mere wave-aways, and preventing a well-known physical principle from destructively interfering with learning! Hello group theory, spectroscopy, Heisenberg and Dirac mechanics!A reprinting, please? Or maybe a third edition? Dover?

Wonder why more people don't refer to this book!

Very simple treatment of the quantum theory. Can be read like a novel