Treiman The Odd Quantum

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2309-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Treiman, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE vii

1. Introduction 3

Overview. Beginnings.

2. Classical Background 27

Newton's law. Gravity. Energy. Electromagnetism. Special Relativity.

3. The "Old" Quantum Mechanics 61

Electromagnetic Waves. Blackbody Radiation. Early Spectroscopy. The Rutherford Atom. Bohr's Quantum Model. De Broglie's Matter Waves.

4. Foundations 80

The Two-Slit Experiment. Schroedinger's Wave Equation. Probabilistic Interpretation. A Brief Survey of the Rules. Commuting Observables. The Uncertainty Principle. Momentum. The Operator Concept. Angular Momentum. Aspects of Energy.

5. Some Quantum Classics 119

The Free Particle. Particle in a Box. The Harmonic Oscillator. Central Potentials Generally. The One-Electron Atom. The Infinite Solenoid. Decay Processes.

6. Identical Particles 149

Symmetry, Antisymmetry Rules. The Pauli Principle. The Fermi Gas. Atoms. More on Identical Bosons.

7. What's Going On? 173

8. The Building Blocks 191

Particles in Collision, Particles in Decay. Accelerators. Patterns and Regularities. Basic Ingredients. Summary.

9. Quantum Fields 231

Free Fields, Free particles. Interactions. Feynman Diagrams. Virtual Particles. The Standard Model in Diagrams. Again, What's Going On?

READINGS 255

INDEX 257

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Treiman (1925–1999) was the Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus at Princeton University.