The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 3: Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 1. Quantum Behavior
	Atomic mechanics
	An experiment with bullets
	An experiment with waves
	An experiment with electrons
	The interference of electron waves
	Watching the electrons
	First principles of quantum mechanics
	The uncertainty principle
Chapter 2. The Relation of Wave and Particle Viewpoints
	Probability wave amplitudes
	Measurement of position and momentum
	Crystal diffraction
	The size of an atom
	Energy levels
	Philosophical implications
Chapter 3. Probability Amplitudes
	The laws for combining amplitudes
	The two-slit interference pattern
	Scattering from a crystal
	Identical particles
Chapter 4. Identical Particles
	Bose particles and Fermi particles
	States with two Bose particles
	States with n Bose particles
	Emission and absorption of photons
	The blackbody spectrum
	Liquid helium
	The exclusion principle
Chapter 5. Spin One
	Filtering atoms with a Stern-Gerlach apparatus
	Experiments with filtered atoms
	Stern-Gerlach filters in series
	Base states
	Interfering amplitudes
	The machinery of quantum mechanics
	Transforming to a different base
	Other situations
Chapter 6. Spin One-Half
	Transforming amplitudes
	Transforming to a rotated coordinate system
	Rotations about the z-axis
	Rotations of 180 and 90 about y
	Rotations about x
	Arbitrary rotations
Chapter 7. The Dependence of Amplitudes on Time
	Atoms at rest; stationary states
	Uniform motion
	Potential energy; energy conservation
	Forces; the classical limit
	The ``precession'' of a spin one-half particle
Chapter 8. The Hamiltonian Matrix
	Amplitudes and vectors
	Resolving state vectors
	What are the base states of the world?
	How states change with time
	The Hamiltonian matrix
	The ammonia molecule
Chapter 9. The Ammonia Maser
	The states of an ammonia molecule
	The molecule in a static electric field
	Transitions in a time-dependent field
	Transitions at resonance
	Transitions off resonance
	The absorption of light
Chapter 10. Other Two-State Systems
	The hydrogen molecular ion
	Nuclear forces
	The hydrogen molecule
	The benzene molecule
	Dyes
	The Hamiltonian of a spin one-half particle in a magnetic field
	The spinning electron in a magnetic field
Chapter 11. More Two-State Systems
	The Pauli spin matrices
	The spin matrices as operators
	The solution of the two-state equations
	The polarization states of the photon
	The neutral K-meson
	Generalization to N-state systems
Chapter 12. The Hyperfine Splitting in Hydrogen
	Base states for a system with two spin one-half particles
	The Hamiltonian for the ground state of hydrogen
	The energy levels
	The Zeeman splitting
	The states in a magnetic field
	The projection matrix for spin one
Chapter 13. Propagation in a Crystal Lattice
	States for an electron in a one-dimensional lattice
	States of definite energy
	Time-dependent states
	An electron in a three-dimensional lattice
	Other states in a lattice
	Scattering from imperfections in the lattice
	Trapping by a lattice imperfection
	Scattering amplitudes and bound states
Chapter 14. Semiconductors
	Electrons and holes in semiconductors
	Impure semiconductors
	The Hall effect
	Semiconductor junctions
	Rectification at a semiconductor junction
	The transistor
Chapter 15. The Independent Particle Approximation
	Spin waves
	Two spin waves
	Independent particles
	The benzene molecule
	More organic chemistry
	Other uses of the approximation
Chapter 16. The Dependence of Amplitudes on Position
	Amplitudes on a line
	The wave function
	States of definite momentum
	Normalization of the states in x
	The Schrödinger equation
	Quantized energy levels
Chapter 17. Symmetry and Conservation Laws
	Symmetry
	Symmetry and conservation
	The conservation laws
	Polarized light
	The disintegration of the 0
	Summary of the rotation matrices
Chapter 18. Angular Momentum
	Electric dipole radiation
	Light scattering
	The annihilation of positronium
	Rotation matrix for any spin
	Measuring a nuclear spin
	Composition of angular momentum
	Added Note 1: Derivation of the rotation matrix
	Added Note 2: Conservation of parity in photon emission
Chapter 19. The Hydrogen Atom and The Periodic Table
	Schrödinger's equation for the hydrogen atom
	Spherically symmetric solutions
	States with an angular dependence
	The general solution for hydrogen
	The hydrogen wave functions
	The periodic table
Chapter 20. Operators
	Operations and operators
	Average energies
	The average energy of an atom
	The position operator
	The momentum operator
	Angular momentum
	The change of averages with time
Chapter 21. The Schrödinger Equation in a Classical Context: A Seminar on Superconductivity
	Schrödinger's equation in a magnetic field
	The equation of continuity for probabilities
	Two kinds of momentum
	The meaning of the wave function
	Superconductivity
	The Meissner effect
	Flux quantization
	The dynamics of superconductivity
	The Josephson junction
Feynman's Epilogue
Appendix
Chapter 34. The Magnetism of Matter
	Diamagnetism and paramagnetism
	Magnetic moments and angular momentum
	The precession of atomic magnets
	Diamagnetism
	Larmor's theorem
	Classical physics gives neither diamagnetism nor paramagnetism
	Angular momentum in quantum mechanics
	The magnetic energy of atoms
Chapter 35. Paramagnetism and Magnetic Resonance
	Quantized magnetic states
	The Stern-Gerlach experiment
	The Rabi molecular-beam method
	The paramagnetism of bulk materials
	Cooling by adiabatic demagnetization
	Nuclear magnetic resonance
Index
Name Index
List of Symbols