This primer introduces simple, straightforward quantum science principles to motivated science students from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds, using a minimum of mathematical formalism and offering readers the means to achieve significant conceptual clarity and depth of what can often seem like complex material.
Steven M. Pascal is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Old Dominion University. He has previously taught medical students at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and physics students at Massey University in New Zealand. His previous book entitled NMR Primer: An HSQC Approach presents the basics of NMR needed by biological spectroscopists in a rigorous but mostly visual manner.