Visual Quantum Mechanics





Printing errors for

Visual Quantum Mechanics - Selected Topics with Computer-Generated Animations of Quantum-Mechanical Phenomena.

1st printing

p7-17: step step

p8 (Exercise 1.6): "look" instead of "look like"

p9-12: change "and" to "as"

p18+5 Eq. (2.12): Integral borders -L..+L instead of a..b

p36 Eq (2.88): Factor \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} missing in front of integral

p37+1(Fig.caption): ..allows us to..

p.42 Eq. (2.115) should read
2 Re <\nabla \psi , x \psi> = - n ||\psi||^2

p.42 Eq. (2.116) should have ||psi||^4 (instead of ||psi||^2) on the right side

p43-4: to be a probability distribution

p45-13: "insensitive to" instead of "insensitive against"

p47-5: end equation with "." New line: "That is.."

p50+9: allowed physicists

p52+23: allows one to

p54-13: in a vacuum

p64-6: "looks. See Fig. 3.2. (omit "like")

p66 Eq. (3.57): Missing square: The integrand should read |\psi(x)|^2

p66+4 (in the text) Formula citation: (3.57) instead of (3.54)

p79-8: replace "question what" by "question of what"

p80+12; replace "sensitive against" by "sensitive to"

p84+10 and +17: "information" instead of "informations"

p85+11: "insensitive to" instead of "insensitive against"

p87-13: "How does a wave function look," instead of "How does a wave function look like,"

p91+5: "So far we have only introduced" instead of "So far we have only known"

p92-8: "compactly written" instead of "shortly written"

p94+7: "suggests that we replace" instead of "suggests to replace"

p101+2 "look at" instead of "look on"

p105-7 "it seems paradoxical" instead of "it seems paradox"

p.174+11 (Eq after Eq. 7.79) "exp" should be roman font

p175+10: replace "lets" by "let's"

p176+10: Color Plate ... 22

p193+2: Line-break

p195-8: "allows us to calculate" instead of "allows to calculate"

p227-7: .. is to low to allow.. should read: is too low to allow

p238+10: "look" instead of "look like"

p257-11: This can done with.. should read: This can be done with..

p258+2..allows us to

Remaining errors in 2nd printing:

p.18+5 (EQ. (2.12): Integral borders -L..+L instead of a..b

p.42 Eq. (2.115) should read
2 Re <\nabla \psi , x \psi> = - n ||\psi||^2

p.42 Eq. (2.116) should have ||psi||^4 (instead of ||psi||^2) on the right side

p66 Eq. (3.57): Missing square: The integrand should read |\psi(x)|^2

p.66+4 (in the text) Formula citation: (3.57) instead of (3.54)

p.174+11 (Eq after Eq. 7.79) "exp" should be roman font

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