◎作者简介
拉马穆蒂·香卡(Ramamurti Shankar)是美国著名物理学家,耶鲁大学的吉布斯讲席教授(Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics)。他的研究领域主要是理论凝聚态物理和量子场论。香卡教授在耶鲁大学任教已超过45年,并曾担任物理系的系主任。他获得过耶鲁大学的Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall杰出教学奖和美国物理学会的Julius Edgar Lilienfeld奖。他是美国人文与科学院的院士。
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◎图书目录
Preface
Prelude
Mathematical IntroductionReview of Classical MechanicsAll Is Not Well with Classical MechanicsThe Postulates—a General DiscussionSimple Problems in One DimensionThe Classical LimitThe Harmonic OscillatorThe Path Integral Formulation of Quantum TheoryThe Heisenberg Uncertainty RelationsSystems with N Degrees of FreedomSymmetries and Their ConsequencesRotational Invariance and Angular MomentumThe Hydrogen AtomSpinAddition of Angular MomentaVariational and WKB MethodsTime-Independent Perturbation TheoryTime-Dependent Perturbation TheoryScattering TheoryThe Dirac EquationPath Integrals—II
Appendix
Answers to Selected Exercises
Table of Constants
Index