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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: In Chemistry, Material Science, and Biology (S. M. Blinder)

Kevin M. Dunn

Chemistry Department, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943

J. Chem. Educ., 2005, 82 (3), p 383

DOI: 10.1021/ed082p383

Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2005

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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics lays out the machinery of quantum mechanics for the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student. Blinder has included a thorough discussion of metaphysical questions that dominate literature for the lay public but which are generally slighted in college textbooks.

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