Physics Bulletin

Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics

Martin Counihan

Published Dec 1, 1986• 14 citations

Abstract

Anton Z Capri 1985 California: Benjamin/Cummings 653 pp price £34.95 ISBN 0 8053 1505 5 Careful, comprehensive and comprehensible, this book will be appreciated as a valuable reference for students and teachers – something to turn to when you can't remember what Franck and Hertz did, or how to get the Lippmann–Schwinger equations. If the book has a fault, it is the failure to give context and motive to the topics covered.

DOI: 10.1088/0031-9112/37/12/040

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