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The author wants to lead students smoothly and slowly into the new way of thinking in quantum mechanics, especially he wants to assure them that classical mechanics is not completely abandoned. The fact, that there does not exist the one model in theoretical physics which describes all physical phenomena, and that the necessity of changing your model has nothing to do with ``tortuous brain washing'' or ``ideological changes'', is extensively stressed. The result is a rather verbose text with repetitions and it is questionable, whether this can be helpful nowadays. From the description of a wave packet the author gets to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation which he then solves for the standard one particle problems (without spin). This expanded version (of a textbook first published in [Addison-Wesley Series in Physics, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley (1962; Zbl 0125.45501)]) contains one new chapter at the end about the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics.