By James Binney and David Skinner
Oxford University Press
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The aim of this book is to give students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material world. It shows that the theory follows naturally from the use of probability amplitudes to derive probabilities. It emphasizes that stationary states are unphysical mathematical abstractions that enable solution of the theory’s governing equation – the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. Every opportunity is taken to illustrate the emergence of the familiar classical, dynamical world through the quantum interference of stationary states.
