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The fifth volume of this basic textbook of theoretical physics is dedicated to the elaboration of the basic principles of quantum mechanics. Again, the author prefers an intuitive approach, using the main results of the old quantum theory as a tool for building a bridge between classical physics and the quantum phenomena. Despite my personal disagreement for the way by which the author arrives at the Schrödinger equation, I must admit that, as far as I know, no reasonable alternative solution has been given to this step, except the elaborated way used by Feynman in his famous lectures. As soon as the fundamental equation is formulated, everything after is running in the most perfect way. The mental experiments having the Stern-Gerlach experiment as a model are used in a most convincing manner for building a very rigorous mathematical apparatus of the theory. The simple models are used not only as a convincing illustration of the merits of the theory, but are opening windows toward the pretentious generalizations of the nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Throughout the volume, the recapitulative questions as well as the proposed and solved problems are sensitively increasing the formative value of the text.