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This is the third edition of the book, first published in 1985. The first revision came out in 1993. The book is intended to serve as a textbook for Physics students at the M.Sc. and M.Phil. levels and a reference book to researchers in the field of Theoretical Physics.
Unlike most books on the subject, no detailed account of the historical development of quantum mechanics is included. Instead, the emphasis is on the basic principles, the calculational techniques and the inner consistency and beauty of the theory. For this, a Hilbert space formulation of the basic principles and the equations of motion are adopted at the outset. The treatment of linear vector spaces, matrices, angular momentum, relativistic wave equations, quantum field theory and the interpretational problem, is given in more detailed way than in most books on quantum mechanics. Topics covered include Clebsch-Gordon and Racah coefficients, 9-j symbols and spherical tensors, the Klein-Gordon and the Weyl equations, Feynman`s path-integral formalism, Feynman diagrams, Normal Products and Wick`s Theorem, the EPR paradox, Hidden-variables theories and Bell`s inequality. A number of problems are included with a view to supplementing the text.
The present edition includes boundary value problems, representation theory, Fermi-Gas Model of the nuclei, Imaginary-mass Klein-Gordon equation, covariant and contravariant vectors, explanations of the EPR paradox and Einstein`s concept of locality versus determinism. ISBN - 9788122433579
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Pages : 552
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