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Thismanuscriptisatextbookforagraduatecourseinquantummechanics.Ihavetaughtthiscourse15-20timesandgraduallydevelopedthesenotes.Orginally,IusedasatextQuantumMechanicsbyA.S.Davydov.Whenthatfinebookwentoutofprint,Iwrotethesenotesfollowingasimilarsyllabus.Itcontainsmuchnewmaterialnotfoundinoldertexts.Thebeginningchaptersfollowatraditionalsyllabus.TopicsincludesolvingSchrodingersequationinone,two,andthreedimensions.Approximatetechniquesareintroducedsuchas(1)variational,(2)WKBJ,and(3)perturbationtheory.Manyexamplesaretakenfromthequantummechanicsofatomsandsmallmolecules.Solid-stateex-amplesincludeexchangeenergy,Landaulevels,andthequantumHalleffect.laterchaptersdiscussscatteringtheoryandrelativisticquantummechanics.Thechapteronopticalpropertiesincludesbothlinearandnonlinearopticalphenomena.Eachchapterconcludeswithnumeroushomeworkproblems.Preliminaryversionsoftheselectureshavebeenhandedtoseveralgenerationsofgraduatestudents.Theirfeedbackhasbeeninvaluableinhoningthematerial.