Quantum Physics

John S. Townsend (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2009
University Science Books,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-891389-62-7 (ISBN)

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This brilliantly innovative textbook is intended as a first introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications. Townsend's new text shuns the historical ordering that characterizes so-called Modern Physics textbooks and applies a truly modern approach to this subject, starting instead with contemporary single-photon and single-atom interference experiments. The text progresses naturally from a thorough introduction to wave mechanics through applications of quantum mechanics to solid-state, nuclear, and particle physics, thereby including most of the topics normally presented in a Modern Physics course. Examples of topics include blackbody radiation, Bose-Einstein condensation, the band-structure of solids and the silicon revolution, the curve of binding energy and nuclear fission and fusion, and the Standard Model of particle physics. Students can see in quantum mechanics a common thread that ties these topics into a coherent picture of how the world works, a picture that gives students confidence that quantum mechanics really works, too. The book also includes a chapter-length appendix on special relativity for the benefit of students who have not had a previous exposure to this subject.

About the author JOHN S. TOWNSEND is Susan and Bruce Worster Professor of Physics at the Harvey Mudd College, and the Claremont Colleges, USA

1. Light

2. Wave Mechanics

3. The Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation

4. One-Dimensional Potentials

5. Principles of Quantum Mechanics

6. Quantum Mechanics in three Dimensions

7. Identical Particles

8. Solid-State Physics

9. Nuclear Physics

10. Particle Physics

A. Special Relativity

B. Power-Series Solutions

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 286 mm
Gewicht	1175 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10	1-891389-62-9 / 1891389629
ISBN-13	978-1-891389-62-7 / 9781891389627
Zustand	Neuware