Michael D. Fayer, the D. M. Ehrsam and E. C. Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the American Chemical Society E. Bright Wilson Award for Spectroscopy, the American Physical Society Earl K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, and the Optical Society of America Ellis R. Lippincott Award. He has taught graduate quantum mechanics at Stanford for over thirty years. A complete set of Power Point lectures for teaching using his book is available on his web site (http://www.stanford.edu/group/fayer/), and he will provide the complete Problem and Solution Manual in Word format to instructors upon request.

• 1. Absolute Size and the Superposition Principle ; 2. Kets, Bras, Operators, and the Eignevalue Problem ; 3. Momentum of a Free Particle and Wave Packets ; 4. Commutators, Dirac's Quantum Condition, and the Uncertainty Principle ; 5. The Schrodinger Equation, Time Dependent and Time Independent ; 6. The Harmonic Oscillator in the Schrodinger and Dirac Representations ; 7. The Hydrogen Atom ; 8. Time Dependent Two State Problem ; 9. Perturbation Theory ; 10. The Helium Atom: Perturbation Treatment and the Variation Principle ; 11. Time Dependent Perturbation Theory ; 12. Absorption and Emission of Radiation ; 13. The Matrix Representation ; 14. The Density Matrix and Coherent Coupling of Molecules to Light ; 15. Angular Momentum ; 16. Electron Spin ; 17. The Covalent Bond ; Problems ; Physical Constraints and Conversion Factors for Energy Units ; Index

"Elements of quantum mechanics provides a firm grounding for graduate students and researchers in physical chemistry, chemical physics and theoretical chemistry who are concerned with time-dependent phenomena. This book is also relevant for scientists in other disciplines such as physics, materials science, biophysics and engineering. Its clear style also makes the text accessible to undergraduates who want to learn about the more challenging and modeern aspects of quantum mechanics." The Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2002.

Michael D. Fayer, the D. M. Ehrsam and E. C. Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the American Chemical Society E. Bright Wilson Award for Spectroscopy, the American Physical Society Earl K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, and the Optical Society of America Ellis R. Lippincott Award. He has taught graduate quantum mechanics at Stanford for over thirty years. A complete set of Power Point lectures for teaching using his book is available on his web site (http://www.stanford.edu/group/fayer/), and he will provide the complete Problem and Solution Manual in Word format to instructors upon request.

• 1. Absolute Size and the Superposition Principle ; 2. Kets, Bras, Operators, and the Eignevalue Problem ; 3. Momentum of a Free Particle and Wave Packets ; 4. Commutators, Dirac's Quantum Condition, and the Uncertainty Principle ; 5. The Schrodinger Equation, Time Dependent and Time Independent ; 6. The Harmonic Oscillator in the Schrodinger and Dirac Representations ; 7. The Hydrogen Atom ; 8. Time Dependent Two State Problem ; 9. Perturbation Theory ; 10. The Helium Atom: Perturbation Treatment and the Variation Principle ; 11. Time Dependent Perturbation Theory ; 12. Absorption and Emission of Radiation ; 13. The Matrix Representation ; 14. The Density Matrix and Coherent Coupling of Molecules to Light ; 15. Angular Momentum ; 16. Electron Spin ; 17. The Covalent Bond ; Problems ; Physical Constraints and Conversion Factors for Energy Units ; Index

"Elements of quantum mechanics provides a firm grounding for graduate students and researchers in physical chemistry, chemical physics and theoretical chemistry who are concerned with time-dependent phenomena. This book is also relevant for scientists in other disciplines such as physics, materials science, biophysics and engineering. Its clear style also makes the text accessible to undergraduates who want to learn about the more challenging and modeern aspects of quantum mechanics." The Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2002.

Michael D. Fayer, the D. M. Ehrsam and E. C. Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the American Chemical Society E. Bright Wilson Award for Spectroscopy, the American Physical Society Earl K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, and the Optical Society of America Ellis R. Lippincott Award. He has taught graduate quantum mechanics at Stanford for over thirty years. A complete set of Power Point lectures for teaching using his book is available on his web site (http://www.stanford.edu/group/fayer/), and he will provide the complete Problem and Solution Manual in Word format to instructors upon request.

• 1. Absolute Size and the Superposition Principle ; 2. Kets, Bras, Operators, and the Eignevalue Problem ; 3. Momentum of a Free Particle and Wave Packets ; 4. Commutators, Dirac's Quantum Condition, and the Uncertainty Principle ; 5. The Schrodinger Equation, Time Dependent and Time Independent ; 6. The Harmonic Oscillator in the Schrodinger and Dirac Representations ; 7. The Hydrogen Atom ; 8. Time Dependent Two State Problem ; 9. Perturbation Theory ; 10. The Helium Atom: Perturbation Treatment and the Variation Principle ; 11. Time Dependent Perturbation Theory ; 12. Absorption and Emission of Radiation ; 13. The Matrix Representation ; 14. The Density Matrix and Coherent Coupling of Molecules to Light ; 15. Angular Momentum ; 16. Electron Spin ; 17. The Covalent Bond ; Problems ; Physical Constraints and Conversion Factors for Energy Units ; Index

"Elements of quantum mechanics provides a firm grounding for graduate students and researchers in physical chemistry, chemical physics and theoretical chemistry who are concerned with time-dependent phenomena. This book is also relevant for scientists in other disciplines such as physics, materials science, biophysics and engineering. Its clear style also makes the text accessible to undergraduates who want to learn about the more challenging and modeern aspects of quantum mechanics." The Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2002.