Practical Quantum Mechanics (Classics in Mathematics) Reprint of the 1st (first) e Edition by Fl¨¹gge, Siegfried [1998]

by Siegfried Flügge

This work was first published in 1947 in German under the title "Re chenmethoden der Quantentheorie." It was meant to serve a double purpose: to help both, the student when first confronted with quantum mechanics and the experimental scientist, who has never before used it as a tool, to learn how to apply the general theory to practical problems of atomic physics. Since that early date, many excellent books have been written introducing into the general framework of the theory and thus indispensable to a deeper understanding. It seems, however, that the more practical side has been somewhat neglected, except, of course, for the flood of special monographs going into broad detail on rather restricted topics. In other words, an all-round introduction to the practical use of quantum mechanics seems, so far, not to exist and may still be helpful. It was in the hope of filling this gap that the author has fallen in with the publishers' wish to bring the earlier German editions up to date and to make the work more useful to the worldwide community of science students and scientists by writing the new edition in English. From the beginning there could be no doubt that the work had to be much enlarged. New approximation methods and other developments, especially in the field of scattering, had to be added. It seemed necessary to include relativistic quantum mechanics and to offer, at least, a glimpse of radiation theory as an example of wave field quantization."

Genres: Physics

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First published January 2, 1971

About the author

Siegfried Flügge was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to nuclear physics, including articles important to the development of nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project), 1939. From 1941 onward he was a lecturer at various German universities; he was also a visiting professor at U.S. universities between 1949 and 1953. From 1956 to 1984, he was editor of the 54-volume, prestigious Handbuch der Physik.