This work arises from our teaching this subject during many years. The vast majority of these exercises are the exams we gave to our students in this period. We carefully selected the subjects of the exercises to cover all the material which is most needed℗ and which is treated in the most well known texts on these subjects. Each exercise is carefully solved in full details, explaining the theory behind the solution with particular care for those issues that, from our experience, are found most difficult from the average student. Indeed, several exercises are designed to throw light on℗ aspects of the theory that, for one reason or another, are usually neglected with the result to make the students feel uneasy about them. In fact most students get acquainted just with the more common manipulations,℗ which are illustrated by℗ many examples in textbooks. Our exercises never require extensive calculations℗ but tend to be somewhat unusual℗ and force the solver℗ to think about the problem starting from the principles, rather than by analogy with some previously solved exercise Main subject categories: • Quantum mechanics • Statistical mechanics • Problems & solutionsThis textbook is the result of many years of teaching quantum and statistical mechanics, drawing on exercises and exam papers used on courses taught by the authors. The subjects of the exercises have been carefully selected to cover all the material which is most needed by students.Each exercise is carefully solved in full details, explaining the theory behind the solution with particular care for those issues that students often find difficult, or which are often neglected in other books on the subject. The exercises in this book never require extensive calculations but tend to be somewhat unusual and force the solver to think about the problem starting from first principles, rather than by analogy with some previously solved exercise. This textbook is the result of many years of teaching quantum and statistical mechanics, drawing on exercises and exam papers used on courses taught by the authors. The subjects of the exercises have been carefully selected to cover all the material which is most needed by students. Each exercise is carefully solved in full details, explaining the theory behind the solution with particular care for those issues that students often find difficult, or which are often neglected in other books on the subject. The exercises in this book never require extensive calculations but tend to be somewhat unusual and force the solver to think about the problem starting from first principles, rather than by analogy with some previously solved exercise. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Summary of Quantum and Statistical Mechanics....Pages 3-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Formalism of Quantum Mechanics and One Dimensional Problems....Pages 39-112 Angular Momentum and Spin....Pages 113-144 Central Force Field....Pages 145-162 Perturbation Theory and WKB Method....Pages 163-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Thermodynamics and Microcanonical Ensemble....Pages 193-226 Canonical Ensemble....Pages 227-288 Grand Canonical Ensemble....Pages 289-299 Kinetic Physics....Pages 301-313 Bose-Einstein Gases....Pages 315-335 Fermi-Dirac Gases....Pages 337-362 Fluctuations and Complements....Pages 363-392 Back Matter....Pages 393-399
