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| Introduction And Orientation | |
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| The Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Operators in quantum mechanics | |
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| The postulates of quantum mechanics | |
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| The specification of evolution of states | |
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| Matrices in quantum mechanics | |
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| The plausibility of the schrodinger equation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Linear Motion And The Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| The characteristics of acceptable wave functions | |
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| Some general remarks on the schrodinger equation | |
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| Translational motion | |
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| Penetration into and through barriers | |
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| Place in a box | |
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| The harmonic oscillator | |
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| Translation revisted: the scattering matrix | |
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| Rotational Motion And The Hydrogen Atom | |
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| Particle on a ring | |
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| Particle on a sphere | |
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| Particle in a coulombic field | |
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| Angular Momentum | |
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| The angular momentum operators | |
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| The definition of the states | |
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| The angular momenta of composite systems | |
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| Problems | |
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| Group Theory | |
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| The Symmetries of objects | |
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| The calculus of symmetry | |
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| Reduced representations | |
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| The symmetry properties of functions | |
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| The full rotation group | |
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| Applications | |
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| Techniques Of Approximation | |
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| Time-independent perturbation theory | |
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| Variation theory | |
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| The Hellmann-Feynman theorem | |
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| Time-dependent perturbation theory | |
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| Atomic Spectra And Atomic Structure | |
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| The spectrum of atomic hydrogen | |
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| The structure of helium | |
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| Many-electron atoms | |
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| Atoms in external fields | |
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| An Introduction To Molecular Structure | |
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| The born-oppenheimer approximation | |
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| Molecular orbital theory | |
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| Molecular orbital theory of polyatomic molecules | |
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| The band theory of solids | |
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| The Calculations Of Electronic Structure | |
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| The Hartree-Fock Self-consistent field method | |
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| Electron correlation | |
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| Density Functional Theory | |
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| Gradient Methods and Molecular Properties | |
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| Semiempirical methods | |
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| Molecular mechanics | |
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| Software packages for electronic structure calculations | |
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| Problems | |
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| Molecular Rotations And Vibrations | |
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| Spectroscopic transitions | |
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| Molecular rotation | |
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| The vibrations of diatomic molecules | |
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| The vibrations of polyatomic molecules | |
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| Appendix: Centrifugal distortion | |
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| Molecular Electronic Transitions | |
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| The states of diatomic molecules | |
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| Vibronic transitions | |
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| The electronic spectra of polyatomic molecules | |
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| The fates of excited species | |
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| The Electric Properties Of Molecules | |
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| The response to electric fields | |
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| Bulk electrical properties | |
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| Optical activity | |
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| The Magnetic Properties Of Molecules | |
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| The descriptions of magnetic fields | |
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| Magnetic Perturbations | |
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| Magnetic Resonance Parameters | |
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| Scattering Theory | |
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| The formulation of scattering events | |
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| Partical-wave stationary scattering states | |
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| Multichannel scattering | |