Solved Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics

Download or read book Solved Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics written by Michele Cini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.