Basic Theoretical Physics A Concise Overview /
This concise treatment embraces, in four parts, all the main aspects of theoretical physics (I . Mechanics and Basic Relativity, II. Electrodynamics and Aspects of Optics, III. Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics, IV. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics). It summarizes the material that every grad...
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2007.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Mechanics and Basic Relativity
- Space and Time
- Force and Mass
- Basic Mechanics of Motion in One Dimension
- Mechanics of the Damped and Driven Harmonic Oscillator
- The Three Classical Conservation Laws; Two-particle Problems
- Motion in a Central Force Field; Kepler’s Problem
- The Rutherford Scattering Cross-section
- Lagrange Formalism I: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian
- Relativity I: The Principle of Maximal Proper Time (Eigenzeit)
- Coupled Small Oscillations
- Rigid Bodies
- Remarks on Non-integrable Systems: Chaos
- Lagrange Formalism II: Constraints
- Accelerated Reference Frames
- Relativity II: E=ms2
- Electrodynamics and Aspects of Optics
- and Mathematical Preliminaries to Part II
- Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
- Magnetic Field of Steady Electric Currents
- Maxwell’s Equations I: Faraday’s Law of Induction; the Continuity Equation; Maxwell’s Displacement Current
- Maxwell’s Equations II: Electromagnetic Waves
- Applications of Electrodynamics in the Field of Optics
- Conclusion to Part II
- Quantum Mechanics
- On the History of Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Mechanics: Foundations
- One-dimensional Problems in Quantum Mechanics
- The Harmonic Oscillator I
- The Hydrogen Atom according to Schrödinger’s Wave Mechanics
- Abstract Quantum Mechanics (Algebraic Methods)
- Spin Momentum and the Pauli Principle (Spin-statistics Theorem)
- Spin-orbit Interaction; Addition of Angular Momenta
- Ritz Minimization
- Perturbation Theory for Static Problems
- Time-dependent Perturbations
- Magnetism: An Essentially Quantum Mechanical Phenomenon
- Cooper Pairs; Superconductors and Superfluids
- On the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Reality?, Locality?, Retardation?)
- Quantum Mechanics: Retrospect and Prospect
- Appendix: “Mutual Preparation Algorithm” for Quantum Cryptography
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
- and Overview to Part IV
- Phenomenological Thermodynamics: Temperature and Heat
- The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
- Phase Changes, van der Waals Theory and Related Topics
- The Kinetic Theory of Gases
- Statistical Physics
- The Transition to Classical Statistical Physics
- Advanced Discussion of the Second Law
- Shannon’s Information Entropy
- Canonical Ensembles in Phenomenological Thermodynamics
- The Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
- Production of Low and Ultralow Temperatures; Third Law of Thermodynamics
- General Statistical Physics (Formal Completion; the Statistical Operator; Trace Formalism)
- Ideal Bose and Fermi Gases
- Applications I: Fermions, Bosons, Condensation Phenomena
- Applications II: Phase Equilibria in Chemical Physics
- Conclusion to Part IV.
