A Little on Quantum Mechanics
I have a long-time recreational interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Notes for the Margins of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics"
Volume III, Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 17
"The Feynman Lectures on Physics"
is a famous book based on lectures Feynman gave to
freshman and sophomores at Cal Tech. Much of the material in
Volume III (Quantum Mechanics) is much easier to
understand if one knows linear algebra.
Introduction
Feynman's Lectures, Chapter 3
Feynman's Lectures, Chapter 5
Feynman's Lectures, Chapter 6
Range, Domain, and Definition of the Matrix for Spin 1/2 Particles
Quaternions
Operators
Feynman's Lectures, Chapter 17
References
Some Web Links
Some Books
- Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and
Matter, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1985.
Read this!
- Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands,
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III,
Addison-Wesley, New York, 1965. An influential classic.
- Stanley P. Gudder, Quantum Probability, Academic
Press, Boston, 1988.
- Paul R. Halmos, Introduction to Hilbert Space and the
Theory of Spectral Multiplicity, Chelsea, New York, 1951.
- R. I. G. Hughes, The Structure and Interpretation of
Quantum Mechanics, Harvard University Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1989.
- Roland Omnes, The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics,
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994.
- Alastair I. M. Ray, Quantum Mechanics, IOP Publishing,
Bristol, 1992.
- John B. Townsend, A Modern Approach to Quantum
Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, 1992.
