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Waves and Oscillations
A Prelude to Quantum Mechanics
Walter Fox Smith
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2010
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Smith, Walter Fox.
Waves and oscillations : a prelude to quantum mechanics /
Walter Fox Smith.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-19-539349-1
1. Wave equation. 2. Mathematical physics. I. Title.
2010
’4–dc22 2009028586
987654321
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
This book is dedicated to my mother, Barbara Leavell Smith,
and to my wife, Marian McKenzie
Preface
To the student
I wrote this book because I was frustrated by the other textbooks on this subject.
Waves and oscillations are enormously important for current research, yet other books
don’t stress these connections. The ideas and techniques that you will learn from this
book are exactly what you need to be ready for a study of quantum mechanics. Every
physics professor understands this linkage, and yet other