Waves and Oscillations: A Prelude to Quantum Mechanics
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (947 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019539349X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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His research centers on the photoelectronic properties of self-assembling molecular electronics. Walter Fox Smith combines his passions for teaching and nanophysics research at Haverford College. He is also known as "the singing physics professor", thanks to his compositions and performances in the classroom and at social gatherings of physicists.
The parallels between normal mode analysis, orthogonal function analysis (especially Fourier analysis), and superpositions of quantum states are clearly drawn, without actually getting into the quantum mechanics. An in-depth, accessible introduction to Hilbert space and bra-ket notation begins in Chapter 5 (on symmetrical coupled oscillators), emphasizing the analogy with conventional dot products, and continues in subsequent chapters. Waves and oscillations permeate virtually every field of current physics research, are central to chemistry, and are essential to much of engineering. The instructor-only part includes difficulty ratings for problems, optional hints, full solutions, and additional support materials
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I strongly recommend this book for use in a course that serves as a bridge for students who are making the transition from introductory courses into an upper-level curriculum." Prof. Nathan Harshman, American University . Listed in New Books, Physics Today"This book provides a rigorous introduction to a host of wave and oscillation phenomena and their real-world and research applications, while at the same time laying the mathematical and conceptual groundwork for upper level physics classes