| Editor's Foreword |
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| Preface |
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| Chapter 1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS |
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1 | (55) |
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1 | (2) |
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1-2 The Laws of Particle Mechanics |
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3 | (7) |
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1-3 Generalized Coordinates and Differentiable Manifolds |
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10 | (19) |
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1-4 Oscillations, Waves, and Hilbert Space |
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29 | (18) |
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1-5 Statistical Mechanics |
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47 | (9) |
| Chapter 2. QUANTUM MECHANICS |
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56 | (59) |
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2-1 The Old Quantum Theory |
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56 | (5) |
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2-2 The Quantum-Mechanical Substitute for Phase Space |
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61 | (20) |
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2-3 Quantum Dynamics and the Schrödinger Equation |
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81 | (4) |
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2-4 The Canonical "Quantization" of a Classical System |
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85 | (11) |
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2-5 Some Elementary Examples and the Original Discoveries of Schrödinger and Heisenberg |
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96 | (4) |
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2-6 Generalized Coordinates |
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100 | (4) |
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2-7 Linear Systems and the Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field |
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104 | (8) |
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2-8 Quantum-Statistical Mechanics |
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112 | (3) |
| Chapter 3. GROUP THEORY AND THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF THE ATOM |
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115 | (20) |
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115 | (1) |
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3-2 Basic Notions in the Theory of Group Representations |
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115 | (5) |
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3-3 Perturbations and the Group Theoretical Classification of Eigenvalues |
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120 | (3) |
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3-4 Spherical Symmetry and Spin |
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123 | (7) |
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3-5 The n-Electron Atom and the Pauli Exclusion Principle |
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130 | (5) |
| Appendix |
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