Quantum mechanics :an experimentalist's approach Eugene D. Commins, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mathematical preliminaries -- The rules of quantum mechanics -- The connection between the fundamental rules and wave mechanics -- Further illustrations of the rules of quantum mechanics -- Further developments in one-dimensional wave mechanics -- The theory of angular momentum -- Wave mechanics in three dimensions: hydrogenic atoms -- Time-independent approximations for bound state problems -- Applications of static perturbation theory -- Identical particles -- Atomic structure -- Molecules -- The stability of matter -- Photons -- Interaction of non-relativistic charged particles and radiation -- Further topics in perturbation theory -- Scattering -- Special relativity and quantum mechanics: the Klein-Gordon equation -- The Dirac equation -- Interaction of a relativistic spin 1/2 particle with an external electromagnetic field -- The Dirac field -- Interaction between relativistic electrons, positrons, and photons -- The quantum mechanics of weak interactions -- The quantum measurement problem.