Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: With Applications to Chemistry

Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1935

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Scuffing/mild damage at top and bottom of cloth spine and corners, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy with all text clean/unmarked. From the Preface of author and world-renowned, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling (1901-1994): "In writing this book, we have attempted to produce a textbook of practical quantum mechanics for the chemist, the experimental physicist and the beginning student of theoretical physics." CONTENTS (15 Chapters): I. Survey of Classical Mechanics. II. The Old Quantum Theory. III. The Schrodinger Wave Equation with the Harmonic Oscillator as an Example. IV. The Wave Equation for a System of Point Particles in Three Dimensions. V. The Hydrogen Atom. VI. Perturbation Theory. VII. The Variation Method and Other Approximate Methods. VIII. The Spinning Electron and the Pauli Exclusion Principle with a Discussion of the Helium Atom. IX. Many Electron Atoms. X. The Rotation and Vibration of Molecules. XI. Perturbation Theory Involving the Time, the Emission and Absorption of Radiation, and the Resonance Phenomenon. XII. The Structure of Simple Molecules. XIII. The Structure of Complex Molecules. XIV. Miscellaneous Applications of Quantum Mechanics. XV. General Theory of Quantum Mechanics. Blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on the spine. 468 pages. LG2. Seller Inventory # 018125

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Title: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: With ...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York

Publication Date: 1935

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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