Quantum Mechanics

by Phillip James Edwin Peebles and P.J.E. Peebles

Book Overview

From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist

P. J. E. Peebles teaches the often counterintuitive physics of quantum mechanics by working through detailed applications of general ideas. A principal example used in the book is the hyperfine structure of atomic hydrogen (the 21 cm line): the computation of the energy splitting and the induced and spontaneous transition rates. Peebles makes room for such calculations by omitting unneeded elements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691087555
• ISBN13: 9780691087559
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An excelent book, but a little too rigorous for some.

this book cover the basics of the unfamiliar subject of Quantum Mechanics. The book is very thorough, but it may be a little to complex for some readers. You might want to bone up on differential equations and thermal dynamics before starting. If you want to learn the subject thouhg, read this book!