Advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying quantum mechanics will find this text a valuable guide to mathematical methods. Emphasizing the unity of a variety of different techniques, it is enduringly relevant to many physical systems outside the domain of quantum theory. Concise in its presentation, this text covers eigenvalue problems in classical physics, orthogonal functions and expansions, the Sturm-Liouville theory and linear operators on functions, and linear vector spaces. Appendixes offer useful information on Bessel functions and Legendre functions and spherical harmonics. This introductory text's teachings offer a solid foundation to students beginning a serious study of quantum mechanics.
A revision of the defining book covering the physics and classical mathematics necessary to understand electromagnetic fields in materials and at surfaces and interfaces. The third edition has been revised to address the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the past twenty years.
This is a revision of a book initially titled Shadow on the Tetons; David E. Jackson and the Claiming of the American West and published in 1993. Over the intervening nineteen years new documentation and insights have emerged that significantly expand on Jackson's role as the mountain superintendent who held the Smith, Jackson & Sublette partnership together through trying years when their downstream supplier William H. Ashley proved duplicious and partner Jedediah Smith failed to contribute to mountain operations. This is a must read for those who wish to know more about the formulative years of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade.
This first-ever fully documented biography of Jackson Hole's namesake chronicles the life of David Jackson and the Rocky Mountain fur trade from a business perspective, while highlighting pragmatic realities of the "skin game." Though scholarly, it is wr
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