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This book provides an understanding of the theoretical foundations for the calculation of electromagnetic processes. Photon production processes are particularly important in astrophysics, since almost all of our knowledge of distant astronomical objects comes from the detection of radiation from th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gould, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
Colección:Princeton series in astrophysics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Some fundamental principles -- Units and characteristic lengths, times, energies, etc. -- Relativistic covariance and relativistic invariants -- Kinematic effects -- Binary collision rates -- Phase-space factors -- Classical electrodynamics -- Retarded potentials -- Multipole expansion of the radiation field -- Fourier spectra -- Fields of a charge in relativistic motion -- Radiation from a relativistic charge -- Radiation reaction -- Soft-photon emission -- Weizsäcker-Williams method -- Absorption and stimulated emission -- Quantum electrodynamics -- Brief historical sketch -- Relationship with classical electrodynamics -- Non-relativistic formulation -- Relativistic theory -- Soft-photon emission -- Special features of electromagnetic processes -- Elastic scattering of charged particles -- Classical Coulomb scattering -- Non-relativistic born approximation and exact treatment -- Scattering of relativistic particles of zero spin -- Scattering of relativistic spin-1/2 particles -- Compton scattering -- Classical limit -- Quantum-mechanical derivation : non-relativistic limit -- Scattering by a magnetic moment -- Relativistic spin-0 case -- Relativistic spin-1/2 problem : Klein-Nishina formula -- Relationship to pair annihilation and production -- Double Compton scattering -- Bremsstrahlung -- Classical limit -- Non-relativistic born limit -- Electron-electron Bremsstrahlung, non-relativistic -- Intermediate energies -- Relativistic Coulomb Bremsstrahlung -- Electron-atom Bremsstrahlung. 
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