Publisher's Synopsis
For this challenging area of Physics get the answers you need at your fingertips, faster than any other source. Success in Physics is critical when entering the growing fields of technology, computer science and engineering that will support our future progress and innovation with breakthroughs and advances. To help retain the facts, equations and concepts essential to success in class and beyond, these 6 laminated pages can be referenced quickly and easily while studying, as a refresher before exams or even as a desktop reference beyond school. Expertly written by author, editor and professor Brett Kaabel PhD, and designed for quick use and high retention. Be sure to get our original Physics guide, Physics 2, and Thermodynamics for more complete coverage and better grades for an unmatched value.
6 page laminated guide includes:
- Fundamental Constants
- Wave-Particle Duality
- Founding Experiments of Quantum Mechanics
- Photoelectric Effect
- Compton Scattering
- Stern-Gerlach Experiment
- The Language of Quantum Mechanics: Vector Spaces
- Hilbert Spaces
- Orthonormal Basis States
- Ket, Bra
- Inner Product, Operators, Outer Product
- Projection Operator, Identity Operator
- Change of Basis
- Physical Observables
- Hermitian Operators
- Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors
- Measurement Probability
- Correspondence Principle, Evolution in Time
- General Uncertainty Principle, Wave Functions
- Operators for Continuous Systems
- Expectation Value
- Schrödinger Equation
- Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
- Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation
- Solutions to the Schrödinger Equation
- Parity, Particle in Free Space
- Particle in a One-Dimensional Infinite Well
- Particle in a One-Dimensional Finite Well
- Simple Harmonic Oscillator
- Hydrogen Atom
- Spin, Pauli Spin Matrices
- Time-Independent Perturbation Theory
- Quadratic Stark Effect
- Fermi's Golden Rule
- Indistinguishable Particles
- Fermions & Bosons
