| Many of my friends have used the first edition of this book, and have suggested a number of changes and additions, not to mention the many errata necessary. In the second edition, I have tried to incorporate as many additions and changes as possible without making the text over-long. As before, there remains far more material than can be covered in a single one-semester course, but the additions provide further discussion on many topics and important new additions, such as numerical solutions to the Schr¨odinger equation. We continue to use this book in such a one-semester course, which is designed for fourth-year electrical engineering students, although more than half of those enrolled are first-year graduate students taking their first quantum mechanics course.
I would like to express my thanks in particular to Dragica Vasileska, who has taught the course several times and has been particularly helpful in pointing out the need for additional material that has been included. Her insight into the interpretations has been particularly useful. |