Introduction to Quantum Mechanics [first edition]

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This text is designed primarily for an introductory course in quantum mechanics at the first-year graduate level, but the first portion is also suitable for a senior-level course. This text can be divided into three sections. In the first section, the first three chapters, we point out the inadequacy of classical concepts to explain many atomic-scale phenomena and suggest how the basic concepts of classical mechanics must be altered to explain experimental observations. The reasonableness of a wavemechanical theory of particle behavior is shown, and it is seen how classi- cally anomalous behavior, such as quantization of energy and angular momentum and the "tunneling through" a potential ba…