Description: Physics and Its Mathematical Foundations, Volume 4, by Dr. Richard Murdoch Montgomery, provides a rigorous and comprehensive treatment of the mathematical structures underlying modern physics. This volume covers the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, including black-body radiation, the photoelectric effect, atomic spectra and the Bohr model, Compton scattering, de Broglie's hypothesis, the Schrodinger equation, matrix mechanics, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Each chapter includes detailed derivations, worked examples, and exercises with solutions, making it an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and mathematics.
Published by The Scottish Science Society.