Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, With Applications to Chemistry

Pauling, Linus and E Bright Wilson

ISBN 10: 0070489602 / ISBN 13: 9780070489608

Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1935

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Description: Figure illustrations and equations. From the preface: ''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. The book is particularly designed for study by those without extensive previous experience with advanced mathematics, such as chemists interested in the subject because of its chemical applications. We have assumed on the part of the reader, in addition to elementary mathematics through the calculus, only some knowledge of complex quantities, ordinary differential equations, and the technique of partial differentiation. Quantum mechanics is essentially mathematical in character, and an understanding of the subject without a thorough knowledge of the mathematical methods involved and the results of their application cannot be obtained.'' The only printed date is the 1935 copyright; this is a later printing -- circa 1970. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with gilt spine text; owner's name on the front endpaper and on the top edge of the text block; a few of the earlier page have minimal bits of markings; Good condition; no dust jacket. appendices, index. 8vo (9.25 inches tall). 468 pages. Seller Inventory # 069446

Bibliographic Details

Title: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, With ...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York

Publication Date: 1935

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: Good

Edition: Later Printing.

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Synopsis:

This widely adopted undergraduate-level text applies quantum mechanics to a broad range of chemical and physical problems, covering such subjects as wave functions for the hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, the Pauli exclusion principle, and the structure of simple and complex molecules. Numerous tables and figures.

About the Author:

Linus Pauling: Two-Time Nobel Laureate In 1985 Dover reprinted Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry, a well-known older book by Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson. This book had been first published fifty years earlier and remarkably still found readers in 1985, and still does today, twenty-five years further on. The first edition of Pauling's General Chemistry was a short book of lessr than 250 pages published in 1944, during World War II. Three years later, it had more than doubled in size to almost 600 pages, and the 1953 edition was over 700 pages. Fifteen years later, for the 1970 edition, it reached its final size and configuration at almost 1,000 pages ― and that is the edition which Dover reprinted in 1988. Dr. Pauling's one request at that time was that we keep the price affordable for students. Linus Pauling is of course the only Dover author to win two Nobel prizes, for Chemistry in 1954 and for Peace in 1962; he is the only winner in history of two unshared Nobel Prizes. In the Author's Own Words: "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." "Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error." "The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away." "Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly." ― Linus Pauling Critical Acclaim for General Chemistry: "An excellent text, highly recommended." ― Choice