Quantum Principles and Particles

This is a two semester, 550 page introductory text, plus a 10 page index. It includes material which overlaps with particle physics, including a number of interesting models as well as material on identical particles. I use a bra-ket notation which I learned from Schwinger, which is much simpler and easier to understand than the standard bra-ket notation. Included are about 160 end of the chapter problems. The ideas of quantum mechanics are introduced via “Process Diagrams,” which are filter/transition devices which help students visualize the states involved and to make transparent the means of computing the amplitudes for certain quantum mechanical processes. Obviously, there are quite a number of diagrams and figures included to do this and illustrate other topics, and these need some attention. Entire text is presently online; the Word version, as usual, has conversion problems from Mac version 5.1 to native system X. The text now contains a chapter connecting to the Standard Model of particle physics.