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ABC of physics : a very brief guide /
This little book concentrates on the foundations of modern physics (its "ABC's") and its most fundamental constants: c -- the velocity of light and? -- the quantum of action. First of all, the book is addressed to professional physicists, but in order to achieve maximal concentration...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 0.1 For whom this book is written*; Preface; 0.2 On the contents of some of the chapters; 0.3 Two beacons*; 0.4 Acknowledgments; Contents; 8.7 The emission and absorption of light; 1. The Fundamentals; 1.1 On intuition; 1.2 Space and time*; 1.3 Matter and substance*; 1.4 Motion*; 2. Units*; 2.1 Standards; 2.2 Circle and angles; 2.3 Units of time and length; 3. A Minimum of Mathematics; 3.1 Four operations of school mathematics and the imaginary unit*; 3.2 Powers of ten*; 3.3 Prefixes of the powers of ten; 3.4 Differentiation and integration; 3.5 Matrices; 4. Translational Motion*
- 4.1 Free particle4.2 Maximum velocity c; 4.3 Energy and momentum of a particle; 4.4 Kinetic and potential energy in Newtonian mechanics; 4.5 Momentum in Newtonian mechanics; 4.6 Space and time in relativistic mechanics; 4.7 Energy and momentum in relativistic mechanics; 4.8 Particle's mass; 4.9 Rest energy; 4.10 Massless photon; 4.11 Masses of electron and proton; 5. Rotation and Quantization; 5.1 The spin and orbital rotation*; 5.2 About vectors and tensors; 5.3 The orbital angular momentum in theory of relativity; 5.4 Identity of particles*; 5.5 Quantization of S and L*
- 5.6 More about spin*5.7 Fermions and bosons*; 5.8 Elementary quantum state*; 5.9 Bound states*; 6. Particles as Corpuscles and Waves; 6.1 Wave vector*; 6.2 The wave function*; 6.3 Probability amplitude*; 6.4 The role of chance in the decay*; 6.5 The role of chance in the two-slit experiments; 6.6 Uncertainty relations*; 6.7 "Correct" and "incorrect" questions*; 6.8 Schrodinger equation; 6.9 The Klein-Fock-Gordon equation; 6.10 Dirac equation; 6.11 Action; 7. More About Units*; 7.1 Units: experiment and theory; 7.2 About SI system of units; 7.3 Electron-volt; 7.4 Units in which c, = 1.
- 7.5 On choosing the system of units8. The Hydrogen Atom*; 8.1 On potential energy; 8.2 Electron-proton interaction; 8.3 Principal quantum number; 8.4 Mass of quantum state; 8.5 Orbital quantum number; 8.6 The projections of L and S; 9. Periodic Table of Chemical Elements; 9.1 From protons to nucleons*; 9.2 Pauli exclusion principle. Fermions and bosons*; 9.3 Horizontal periods of the periodic table of elements*; 9.4 First period; 9.5 The second and third periods; 9.6 The fourth and fifth periods; 9.7 The sixth and seventh periods; 9.8 8 groups and 18 vertical columns of the table.
- 10. Substance10.1 Molecules*; 10.2 Gases*; 10.3 Loschmidt number*; 10.4 Temperature*; 10.5 More on universal constants; 10.6 Condensed matter*; 10.7 Crystallization*; 10.8 Phase transitions*; 10.9 Superfluidity and superconductivity; 10.10 Quasiparticles; 11. Quantum Electrodynamics
- QED; 11.1 QED from Dirac to Feynman*; 11.2 Lamb shift; 11.3 Positron and other antiparticles*; 11.4 Feynman diagrams*; 11.5 Backward in time; 11.6 Antiparticles*; 11.7 Positronium*; 11.8 Normal magnetic moment of the electron; 11.9 Anomalous magnetic moment of the electron: g-2; 11.10 Running coupling constant.