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Classical field theory and the stress-energy tensor /

This book is a concise introduction to the key concepts of classical field theory for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who wish to study the unifying structures and physical insights provided by classical field theory without dealing with the additional complication of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swanson, Mark S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA): Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP concise physics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book is a concise introduction to the key concepts of classical field theory for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who wish to study the unifying structures and physical insights provided by classical field theory without dealing with the additional complication of quantization. In that regard, there are many important aspects of field theory that can be understood without quantizing the fields. These include the action formulation, Galilean and relativistic invariance, traveling and standing waves, spin angular momentum, gauge invariance, subsidiary conditions, fluctuations, spinor and vector fields, conservation laws and symmetries, and the Higgs mechanism, all of which are often treated briefly in a course on quantum field theory.
Notas:"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
Also available in print.
Público:Theoretical physics graduate students & instructors.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781681741215
9781681742496
ISSN:2053-2571