文档介绍：Notes on
Classical and Quantum Mechanics
Jos Thijssen
February 10, 2005
(560 pages)
Available beginning of 1999
Preface
These notes have been developed over several years for use with the courses Classical and Quantum
Mechanics A and B, which are part of the third year applied physics degree program at Delft Uni-
versity of Technology. Part of these notes stem from courses which I taught at Cardiff University of
Wales, UK.
These notes are intended to be used alongside standard textbooks. For the classical part, several
texts can be used, such as the books by Hand and Finch (Analytical Mechanics, Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 1999) and Goldstein (Classical Mechanics, third edition, Addison Wesley, 2004), the
older book by Corben and Stehle (Classical Mechanics, second edition, Dover, 1994, reprint of 1960
edition), and the textbook by Kibble and Berkshire, (Classical Mechanics, 5th edition, World Scien-
tific, 2004). The part on classical mechanics is more self-contained than the quantum part, although
consultation of one or more of the texts mentioned is essential for a thorough understanding of this
field.
For the quantum mechanics part, we use the book by D. J. Griffiths (Introduction to Quantum
Mechanics, Second Edition, Pearson Education International/Prentice Hall, 2005). This is a very
nice, student-friendly text which, however, has two drawbacks. Firstly, the informal way in which
the material is covered, has led to a non-consistent use of Dirac notation; very often, the wavefunc-
tion formalism is used instead of the linear algebra notation. Secondly, the book does not go into
modern applications of quantum mechanics, such as quantum cryptography and puting.
Hopefully these notes remedy that situation. Other books which are useful for learning this mate-
rial from are Introductory Quantum Mechanics by Liboff (fourth edition, Addison Wesley, 2004) and
Quantum Mechanics by Bransden and Joachain (second edition, Prentice Hall, 200