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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198557612

ISBN-139780198557616

eBay Product ID (ePID)1062018

Product Key Features

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameQuantum Mechanics 1 : Foundations

Publication Year1997

SubjectPhysics / Quantum Theory, Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, Physics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorN. J. B. Green

Subject AreaScience

SeriesOxford Chemistry Primers Ser.

FormatUk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight7.1 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN97-029103

Dewey Edition21

Reviews'This provides an excellent introduction giving the chemist's approach to quantum mechanics.'Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 63, No. 2, Feb '98

Series Volume Number48

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal530.12

Table Of ContentIntroduction2. Fundamental Principles2. Separations3. Exact Solutions4. Symmetries5. Normal modes of vibration6. Molecular Orbitals

SynopsisQuantum mechanics is of central importance in chemistry. This book explains the foundations of the subject and explains how it can be applied to chemical problems. Quantum Mechanics assumes the reader has completed a first year mathematics course and is aimed at second and third year undergraduates., Quantum mechanics is of central importance in chemistry. To understand matter and its chemical transformations it is necessary to take a microscopic view connecting experimental observation to the properties of constituent molecules. However, at this microscopic level atoms and sub- atomic particles do not obey the classical laws of mechanics that pertain to the everyday macroscopic world. They obey the laws of quantum mechanics. The aim of this book is to explain the fundamentals of quantum mechanics from the point of view of chemistry; to describe areas of chemistry where quantum mechanics is most important; and to show how quantum mechanics is applied to chemical problems. To this end, the book is divided into two parts: the first deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics (concentrating on exactly soluble problems and the reduction of complicated problems to simple foundations) and the second is a tool kit for applying quantum mechanics to chemical problems (thus concentrating on approximate methods). Although advanced mathematics has been kept to a minimum, the nature of the subject means a certain amount of mathematics is necessary and it is assumed the reader is familiar with a typical first year mathematics course. Quantum Mechanics is an intermediate level text aimed at second and third year undergraduates.

LC Classification NumberQC174.12.G72 1997