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Index
Title Page
About Richard Feynman
Preface to the New Millennium Edition
Feynman’s Preface
Foreword
1 - Quantum Behavior
1-1 Atomic mechanics
1-2 An experiment with bullets
1-3 An experiment with waves
1-4 An experiment with electrons
1-5 The interference of electron waves
1-6 Watching the electrons
1-7 First principles of quantum mechanics
1-8 The uncertainty principle
2 - The Relation of Wave and Particle Viewpoint
2-1 Probability wave amplitudes
2-2 Measurement of position and momentum
2-3 Crystal diffraction
2-4 The size of an atom
2-5 Energy levels
2-6 Philosophical implications
3 - Probability Amplitudes
3-1 The laws for combining amplitudes
3-2 The two-slit interference pattern
3-3 Scattering from a crystal
3-4 Identical particles
4 - Identical Particles
4-1 Bose particles and Fermi particles
4-2 States with two Bose particles
4-3 States with n Bose particles
4-4 Emission and absorption of photons
4-5 The blackbody spectrum
4-6 Liquid helium
4-7 The exclusion principle
5 - Spin One
5-1 Filtering atoms with a Stern-Gerlach apparatus
5-2 Experiments with filtered atoms
5-3 Stern-Gerlach filters in series
5-4 Base states
5-5 Interfering amplitudes
5-6 The machinery of quantum mechanics
5-7 Transforming to a different base
5-8 Other situations
6 - Spin One-Half
6-1 Transforming amplitudes
6-2 Transforming to a rotated coordinate system
6-3 Rotations about the z-axis
6-4 Rotations of 180° and 90° about y
6-5 Rotations about x
6-6 Arbitrary rotations
7 - The Dependence of Amplitudes on Time
7-1 Atoms at rest; stationary states
7-2 Uniform motion
7-3 Potential energy; energy conservation
7-4 Forces; the classical limit
7-5 The “precession” of a spin one-half particle
8 - The Hamiltonian Matrix
8-1 Amplitudes and vectors
8-2 Resolving state vectors
8-3 What are the base states of the world?
8-4 How states change with time
8-5 The Hamiltonian matrix
8-6 The ammonia molecule
9 - The Ammonia Maser
9-1 The states of an ammonia molecule
9-2 The molecule in a static electric field
9-3 Transitions in a time-dependent field
9-4 Transitions at resonance
9-5 Transitions off resonance
9-6 The absorption of light
10 - Other Two-State System
10-1 The hydrogen molecular ion
10-2 Nuclear forces
10-3 The hydrogen molecule
10-4 The benzene molecule
10-5 Dyes
10-6 The Hamiltonian of a spin one-half particle in a magnetic field
10-7 The spinning electron in a magnetic field
11 - More Two-State Systems
11-1 The Pauli spin matrices
11-2 The spin matrices as operators
11-3 The solution of the two-state equations
11-4 The polarization states of the photon
11-5 The neutral K-meson
11-6 Generalization to N-state systems
12 - The Hyperfine Spliting in Hydrogen
12-1 Base states for a system with two spin one-half particles
12-2 The Hamiltonian for the ground state of hydrogen
12-3 The energy levels
12-4 The Zeeman splitting
12-5 The states in a magnetic field
12-6 The projection matrix for spin one
13 - Propagation in a Crystal Lattice
13-1 States for an electron in a one-dimensional lattice
13-2 States of definite energy
13-3 Time-dependent states
13-4 An electron in a three-dimensional lattice
13-5 Other states in a lattice
13-6 Scattering from imperfections in the lattice
13-7 Trapping by a lattice imperfection
13-8 Scattering amplitudes and bound states
14 - Semiconductors
14-1 Electrons and holes in semiconductors
14-2 Impure semiconductors
14-3 The Hall effect
14-4 Semiconductor junctions
14-5 Rectification at a semiconductor junction
14-6 The transistor
15 - The Independent Particle Approximation
15-1 Spin waves
15-2 Two spin waves
15-3 Independent particles
15-4 The benzene molecule
15-5 More organic chemistry
15-6 Other uses of the approximation
16 - The Dependence of Amplitudes on Position
16-1 Amplitudes on a line
16-2 The wave function
16-3 States of definite momentum
16-4 Normalization of the states in x
16-5 The Schrödinger equation
16-6 Quantized energy levels
17 - Symmetry and Conservation Laws
17-1 Symmetry
17-2 Symmetry and conservation
17-3 The conservation laws
17-4 Polarized light
17-5 The disintegration of the ∧
17-6 Summary of the rotation matrices
18 - Angular Momentum
18-1 Electric dipole radiation
18-2 Light scattering
18-3 The annihilation of positronium
18-4 Rotation matrix for any spin
18-5 Measuring a nuclear spin
18-6 Composition of angular momentum
18-7 Added Note 1: Derivation of the rotation matrix
18-8 Added Note 2: Conservation of parity in photon emission
19 - The Hydrogen Atom and The Periodie Table
19-1 Schrödinger’s equation for the hydrogen atom
19-2 Spherically symmetric solutions
19-3 States with an angular dependence
19-4 The general solution for hydrogen
19-5 The hydrogen wave functions
19-6 The periodic table
20 - Operators
20-1 Operations and operators
20-2 Average energies
20-3 The average energy of an atom
20-4 The position operator
20-5 The momentum operator
20-6 Angular momentum
20-7 The change of averages with time
21 - The Schödinger Equation in a Classical Context: A Seminar on Superconductivity
21-1 Schrödinger’s equation in a magnetic field
21-2 The equation of continuity for probabilities
21-3 Two kinds of momentum
21-4 The meaning of the wave function
21-5 Superconductivity
21-6 The Meissner effect
21-7 Flux quantization
21-8 The dynamics of superconductivity
21-9 The Josephson junction
34 - The Magnetism of Matter
34-1 Diamagnetism and paramagnetism
34-2 Magnetic moments and angular momentum
34-3 The precession of atomic magnets
34-4 Diamagnetism
34-5 Larmor’s theorem
34-6 Classical physics gives neither diamagnetism nor paramagnetism
34-7 Angular momentum in quantum mechanics
34-8 The magnetic energy of atoms
35 - Paramagnetism and Magnetic Resonance
35-1 Quantized magnetic states
35-2 The Stern-Gerlach experiment
35-3 The Rabi molecular-beam method
35-4 The paramagnetism of bulk materials
35-5 Cooling by adiabatic demagnetization
35-6 Nuclear magnetic resonance
Index
Name Index
List of Symbols
Copyright Page
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