1st Edition

Microcomputer Quantum Mechanics

Edited By J.P. Killingbeck Copyright 1983

    Microcomputer Quantum Mechanics combines the teaching of computing skills with depth of mathematical understanding. This practical text demonstrates how computation can be integrated with theoretical analysis as part of a unified attack on problems in one of the most interesting areas of modern physics. The author discusses the mathematical principles behind the programs and actually creates new methods to facilitate the application of microcomputers in quantum mechanics.Microcomputer Quantum Mechanics combines the teaching of computing skills with depth of mathematical understanding. This practical text demonstrates how computation can be integrated with theoretical analysis as part of a unified attack on problems in one of the most interesting areas of modern physics. The author discusses the mathematical principles behind the programs and actually creates new methods to facilitate the application of microcomputers in quantum mechanics.

    1. Microcomputers and BASIC 2. Tuning The Instrument 3. The Iterative Approach 4. Some Finite-Difference Methods 5. Numerical Integration 6. Pad pproximants and All That 7. A Simple Power Series Method 8. Some Matrix Calculations 9. Hypervirial-Perturbation Methods 10. Finite-Difference Eigenvalue Calculations 11. One-Dimensional Model Problems 12. Some Case Studies 13. Some Recent Developments

    Biography

    J.P. Killingbeck