I am a professor of Electrical Engineering and (in what is called a “Courtesy Appointment”) of Applied Physics at Stanford. If you want to know more about my professional career as an engineer and scientist, visit my website at http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~dabm/ . I have been teaching a pair of quantum mechanics classes at Stanford for about 10 years now. This book, “Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers,” is based on material I developed over many years teaching these courses. I have now taught more than 500 students in these classes, ranging from undergraduates in various different disciplines to a broad range of graduate engineers and scientists. The courses are aimed at anyone with a good basic understanding of science and mathematics to about a second year or advanced first year college level. I do not presume that the students are necessarily physicists, and I have been careful to minimize the amount of physics I require the reader to know. I have also summarized the key background physics and mathematics in appendices. I have made the solutions to some problems publicly available, which should particularly help anyone teaching themselves from this book. This book should therefore be accessible to a broad range of scientists and engineers while still giving a solid grounding in the subject at a level suitable even for physicists. The basic topics covered include those one would expect in a first serious physics quantum mechanics course. Some of the more advanced topics are useful both to physicists and to other scientists and engineers, including some important practical areas such as semiconductor devices, nanostructures and modern optics. I greatly enjoyed writing this book. I hope you enjoy reading it!
