QUANTUM MECHANICS: FUNDAMENDALS

 

Kurt Gottfried & Tung-Mow Yan

 

 

Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals, by Kurt Gottfried and Tung-Mow Yan, 2nd edition (2003), Springer Verlag, ISBN 0-387-95576-3.

 

 

ERRATA

 

We thank all the readers who have sent us errata, which are complete as of June 2009. Here “complete” means errata that are substantial and not trivial typos or simple grammatical mistakes, which unfortunately are all too common.  This is in sharp contrast with the 1st, 1966, edition, which was copy-edited, a service that publishers no longer provide. Some of these errata have been corrected in the soft cover 2004 edition.

 

We often flag errata by N.M, where N stands for page number and M for decimal fraction from the top of the page.

 

 

Chapter 2

 

29    Eq. 4; replace u by u*

 

37   Eq. 70; in integrand

 

56   Eq. 174; RHS should read

 

57   Eq. 177; in exponent 

 

57   Eq. 184; in last integral

 

59   Eqs. 201 & 202; LHS, 

 

79   Eq. 326;  in central expression subscript i on V

 

93   Eq. 414; after first double commutator should be  

 

102 Caption to Fig. 2.5. Vertical and horizontal axes are resp.

 

109 Prob. 1; inequality should be

 

110 Prob. 10, minus sign on RHS

 

112 We were unaware of the important paper by Lowell S. Brown, “The Classical Limit and the WKB Approximation,” Am. J. Phys. 40, 371 (1972)

 

 

Chapter 3

 

116  Eq. 24; on RHS

 

124  Eq. 81;

 

130  Eq. 112; RHS 

 

137  Eq. 166;

140  Above Eq. 183:

 

141  Eq. 166: replace  in first and third LHS by  respectively

 

144  Eq. 214;

 

151  Above Eq. 258: 

 

154.1  splittings vanish

 

 

Chapter 4

 

166  Eq. 4; 

                                                                       

169  Eq. 16; RHS  …

 

170  Eq. 18; in RHS

 

175  Eq. 70; RHS is missing overall minus sign

 

184  Very last expression should read … 2.2(e)

 

 

Chapter 5

 

 

238  Eq. 21; should read length: ….  

 

246  Eq. 84: in RHS remove overall minus sign

 

253.2 remove minus sign in argument of second

 

253  Eqs. 120 & 123: remove  on LHS;

 

253  Eq. 123; RHS is expectation value,  

 

263.4  RHS of 1st Eq. is  Ry

 

263.5  … charge density , and in following equation

 

 

Chapter 6

 

270.1          For any antisymmetric … of the form (4) …

 

270  Eq. 8, LHS; argument of Y is (r)

 

272  in last line should read 3.7(e)

 

 

 

 

Chapter 7

 

318  Line below Eq. 220:

 

325  In 1st 3-j symbols in 1st line of Eq. 260,  should not be primed

 

 

Chapter 8

 

338  1st line should read … from comparing (4) & (5) with (2):

 

350   Integrand in Eq. 99 should read

 

359  Eq. 156: first factor on RHS should be , where  is     

Planck’s constant divided by .

 

394  Eq. 358:  fraction in first term should be  

 

 

Chapter 9

 

418  In line below Eq. 95, should read  … 8.2(d)

 

 

Chapter 10

 

443  Eqs. 40 – 43, exponential should all be

 

446  Eq. 59; same error as on p. 443

 

449  Eq. 72; RHS missing minus sign

 

450  Eq. 77; same arror as on p. 443

 

459.7  does not hold for … 

 

471  Eq. 191:  complex conjugate second

 

486.5  multipole of  … transition connecting

 

501  last line should  read M.S. Zubairy, and be corrected in Index

 

 

 

Chapter 11

 

505.8  the statement that all integer spin particles …

 

506  In footnote delete “and by Jordan and Klein”

 

 

Chapter 12

 

547.7  Line starting with “projection” should read “1 along n ”

 

569  Fig. 12.6, in line above LH plot, should read

 

571.5  3 lines below Eq. 111, should read Fig. 12.7

 

574.8  In Prob. 3, above equation, should read

 

 

Chapter 13

 

586  Eq. 64; remove  inside (…)

 

595  Eq. 144; plus sign before 

 

597  line above Eq. 155, should read “along  the  z – axis”