The word “Introduction” should be dropped from the title of this book. The author admits in the preface that the book grew out of a third-semester course in quantum mechanics and that students who have had a course at the level of Cohen-Tannoudji (1) should be well prepared! The author’s premise is that time-dependent quantum mechanics is both conceptually and formally simpler in many cases than time-independent quantum mechanics. While this is technically true, the majority of chemists still learn time-independent quantum mechanics first, so there is a learning curve to move to the time-dependent case.
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