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Table of Contents

1. Why Quantum Mechanics?
2. Dynamical Variables and Operators
3. The Eigenvalue Problem
4. What Do We Measure When We Study Quantum Systems?
5. Some Results are Certain, Most are Just Probable
6. The Physical Interpretation of the Wave Function
7. Tunneling
8. Particle in a Box
9. Light Emission and Absorption: the Phenomena
10. Light Emission and Absorption: Einstein's Phenomenological Theory
11. Light Absorption: A Result of Quantum Theory
12. Light Emission and Absorption by a Particle in a Box and a Harmonic Oscillator
13. Two-Particle Systems
14. Angular Momentum
15. Two-Particle Systems: the Radial and Angular Schrödinger Equations
16. The Energy Eigenstates of a Diatomic Molecule
17. Diatomic Molecule: Its Spectroscopy
18. Hydrogen Atom: the Eigenstates
19. The Spin of the Electron and its Role in Spectroscopy
20. The Hydrogen Molecule
21. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Electron Spin Resonance
Appendices 1-2

About the Author


Horia Metiu

is Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1974. Prof. Metiu has won several Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar awards and is a former Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He received the Exxon Solid State Chemistry ACS Award, the UCSB Faculty Research Lectureship, and a Senior Humboldt Award. Prof. Metiu is Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Physics and a fellow of the American Physical Society and Japan Association for the Promotion of Science.

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"Metiu’s four-volume text is an ambitious attempt to present the traditional, core areas of physical chemistry in a fresh way, using modern symbolic manipulation programs to perform many of the derivations and calculations. The endeavor deserves to succeed. I anticipate that the work will come to be seen as a yardstick against which other mainstream physical chemistry texts will be judged." - Chemistry World "The scheme adopted by Metiu allows individual areas of physical chemistry to be treated in greater detail than would otherwise be possible... The work is overall to be welcomed, representing as it does an approach to the teaching of physical chemistry that in some respects differs radically from the customary one." - Prof. Ian R. McDonald, University of Cambridge, UK (review for Molecular Physics journal)"I anticipate that the work will come to be seen as a yardstick against which other mainstream physical chemistry texts will be judged." - Prof. Mike Ashford, University of Bristol, UK (review for Chemistry World)"Horia Metiu has created a significant set of volumes on undergraduate physical chemistry. The integration of Mathematica and Mathcad workbooks into the four texts provides instructors with an attractive new option in teaching. Metiua's writing style is folksy and the graphics minimal, a refreshing approach¦.Taken as a whole, the four volumes on physical chemistry by Metiu are impressive, particularly Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics¦.Without a doubt, the four textbooks provide essential materials of great utility to physical chemistry instructors. The bottom line is that the set of four volumes is a must have-a keeper- as a novel resource or invaluable classroom tool." - Journal of Chemical Education, February 2008, Vol. 85, No. 2, p. 206

Horia Metiu has created a significant set of volumes on undergraduate physical chemistry. The integration of Mathematica and Mathcad workbooks into the four texts provides instructors with an attractive new option in teaching. Metiua's writing style is folksy and the graphics minimal, a refreshing approach¦.Taken as a whole, the four volumes on physical chemistry by Metiu are impressive, particularly Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics¦.Without a doubt, the four textbooks provide essential materials of great utility to physical chemistry instructors. The bottom line is that the set of four volumes is a must have-a keeper- as a novel resource or invaluable classroom tool.Journal of Chemical EducationFebruary 2008, Vol. 85, No. 2, p. 206

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