Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, often called Griffiths, is an introductory textbook on quantum mechanics by David J. Griffiths. The book is considered a standard undergraduate textbook in the subject. After publishing the first edition of the textbook in 1995, Pearson Education released a second edition in 2005, which Cambridge University Press (CUP) reprinted in 2017. In 2018, CUP released a third edition of the book with Darrell F. Schroeter as co-author; this edition is known as Griffiths and Schroeter.
Content (3rd edition) Part I: Theory Chapter 1: The Wave Function Chapter 2: Time-independent Schrödinger Equation Chapter 3: Formalism Chapter 4: Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions Chapter 5: Identical Particles Chapter 6: Symmetries and Conservation Laws Part II: Applications Chapter 7: Time-independent Perturbation Theory Chapter 8: The Variational Principle Chapter 9: The WKB Approximation Chapter 10: Scattering Chapter 11: Quantum Dynamics Chapter 12: Afterword Appendix: Linear Algebra Index
Reception The book was reviewed by John R. Taylor, among others. It has also been recommended in other, more advanced textbooks on the subject.
According to physicists Yoni Kahn of Princeton University and Adam Anderson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics covers all materials needed for questions on quantum mechanics and atomic physics in the Physics Graduate Record Examinations (Physics GRE).
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See also
Introduction to Electrodynamics by the same author List of textbooks in electromagnetism List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics
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