Table of Contents

1. Readers' Orientation: Premise, and Design for the Study. 2. The Quantum Bead on a Track: Its State and Representations. 3. The Bead on a Track: Its Measurement Spectra Are Operator Eigenvalues. 4. The Harmonic Oscillator: Bound Bead in a Symmetric Force Field. 5. The Bead in a Spherical Shell: Two Dimensions with Angular Momentum. 6. Spin, Matrices and the Structure of Quantum Mechanics. 7. Time. 8. The Simplest Atom: Two Particles Bound Together. 9. Indistinguishable Particles: Identical Bosons, and Identical Fermions. 10. Stationary-State Perturbation Theory. So What? Index.