"An extensive introduction to quantum mechanics for undergraduate physics majors, based on the required MIT course and refined for the popular "Mastering Quantum Mechanics" edX course"--

Preface xvI Essentials 11 Key Features of Quantum Mechanics 32 Light, Particles, and Waves 313 Schrodinger Equation 674 Wave Packets, Uncertainty, and Momentum Space 935 Expectation Values and Hermitian Operators 1116 Stationary States I: Special Potentials 1337 Stationary States II: General Features 1718 Stationary States III: Scattering 2119 Harmonic Oscillator 23310 Angular Momentum and Central Potentials 25511 Hydrogen Atom 28112 The Simplest Quantum System: Spin One-Half 307II Theory 33513 Vector Spaces and Operators 33714 Inner Products, Adjoints, and Bra-kets 38115 Uncertainty Principle and Compatible Operators 42716 Pictures of Quantum Mechanics 45917 Dynamics of Quantum Systems 48118 Multiparticle States and Tensor Products 51919  Angular Momentum and Central Potentials: Part II 55520 Addition of Angular Momentum 59921 Identical Particles 639III Applications 68522 Density Matrix and Decoherence 68723 Quantum Computation 73724 Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields 76125 Time-Independent Perturbation Theory 79326 WKB and Semiclassical Approximation 84927 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory 89128 Adiabatic Approximation 95329 Scattering in One Dimension 99930 Scattering in Three Dimensions 1025References 1057Index 1065