Physics - Quantum Mechanics (eBook)

For this challenging area of Physics get the answers you need at your fingertips, faster than any other source. Success in Physics is critical when entering the growing fields of technology, computer science and engineering that will support our future progress and innovation with breakthroughs and advances. To help retain the facts, equations and concepts essential to success in class and beyond, this digital guide can be referenced quickly and easily while studying, as a refresher before exams or even as a desktop reference beyond school. Expertly written by author, editor and professor Brett Kaabel PhD, and designed for quick use and high retention. Be sure to get our original Physics guide, Physics 2, and Thermodynamics for more complete coverage and better grades for an unmatched value. Digital guide includes: Fundamental Constants Wave-Particle Duality Founding Experiments of Quantum Mechanics Photoelectric Effect Compton Scattering Stern-Gerlach Experiment The Language of Quantum Mechanics: Vector Spaces Hilbert Spaces Orthonormal Basis States Ket, Bra Inner Product, Operators, Outer Product Projection Operator, Identity Operator Change of Basis Physical Observables Hermitian Operators Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors Measurement Probability Correspondence Principle, Evolution in Time General Uncertainty Principle, Wave Functions Operators for Continuous Systems Expectation Value Schrdinger Equation Time-Dependent Schrdinger Equation Time-Independent Schrdinger Equation Solutions to the Schrdinger Equation Parity, Particle in Free Space Particle in a One-Dimensional Infinite Well Particle in a One-Dimensional Finite Well Simple Harmonic Oscillator Hydrogen Atom Spin, Pauli Spin Matrices Time-Independent Perturbation Theory Quadratic Stark Effect Fermi's Golden Rule Indistinguishable Particles Fermions & Bosons