◎作者简介

拉马穆蒂·香卡（Ramamurti Shankar）是美国著名物理学家，耶鲁大学的吉布斯讲席教授（Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics）。他的研究领域主要是理论凝聚态物理和量子场论。香卡教授在耶鲁大学任教已超过45年，并曾担任物理系的系主任。他获得过耶鲁大学的Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall杰出教学奖和美国物理学会的Julius Edgar Lilienfeld奖。他是美国人文与科学院的院士。

◎图书目录

Preface

Prelude

1. Mathematical Introduction

2. Review of Classical Mechanics

3. All Is Not Well with Classical Mechanics

4. The Postulates—a General Discussion

5. Simple Problems in One Dimension

6. The Classical Limit

7. The Harmonic Oscillator

8. The Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Theory

9. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Relations

10. Systems with N Degrees of Freedom

11. Symmetries and Their Consequences

12. Rotational Invariance and Angular Momentum

13. The Hydrogen Atom

14. Spin

15. Addition of Angular Momenta

16. Variational and WKB Methods

17. Time-Independent Perturbation Theory

18. Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory

19. Scattering Theory

20. The Dirac Equation

21. Path Integrals—II

Appendix

Answers to Selected Exercises

Table of Constants

Index