Classical field theory and the stress-energy tensor / Mark S. Swanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swanson, Mark S., 1947-

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Series:

IOP concise physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Field theory (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Rafael, CA : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781681740577

1681740575

OCLC:

933859067

Publisher Number:

99969741043