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| Author | Chalmers W Sherwin |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Quantum mechanics (textbook) |
| Published | 1959 |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
| Pages | 385 |
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics is a 1959 textbook by the physicist Chalmers W Sherwin, published by Henry Holt (later Holt, Rinehart and Winston).
Overview
The book is a standard mid-twentieth-century undergraduate introduction to quantum mechanics, developing the Schrödinger equation, wave functions and operators, the harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, and applications to atomic and molecular systems. It was widely used as a teaching text and is valued for its physically motivated, example-driven presentation.
About the author
Chalmers W. Sherwin (1913–1997) was an American physicist at the University of Illinois (and later the Aerospace Corporation and the U.S. government) who worked on nuclear and atomic physics and instrumentation; he is also known for a proposed test of the relativistic time-dilation / clock-transport question.
Publication details
- Author: Chalmers W Sherwin
- Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Published: 1959
- Pages: 385
Links to Purchase Book
- Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Amazon)