Solved Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics
Michele Cini, Francesco Fucito, Mauro SbragagliaMain subject categories: • Quantum mechanics • Statistical mechanics • Problems & solutions
This textbook is the result of many years of teaching quantum and statistical mechanics, drawing on exercises and exam papers used on courses taught by the authors. The subjects of the exercises have been carefully selected to cover all the material which is most needed by students.
Each exercise is carefully solved in full details, explaining the theory behind the solution with particular care for those issues that students often find difficult, or which are often neglected in other books on the subject. The exercises in this book never require extensive calculations but tend to be somewhat unusual and force the solver to think about the problem starting from first principles, rather than by analogy with some previously solved exercise.
Part I. Theoretical Background -- Summary of Quantum and Statistical Mechanics -- Part II. Quantum Mechanics - Problems -- Formalism of Quantum Mechanics and One Dimensional Problems -- Angular Momentum and Spin -- Central Force Field -- Perturbation Theory and WKB Method -- Part III. Statistical Mechanics - Problems -- Thermodynamics and Microcanonical Ensemble -- Canonical Ensemble -- Grand Canonical Ensemble -- Kinetic Physics -- Bose-Einstein Gases -- Fermi-Dirac Gases -- Fluctuations and Complements