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Quantum physics : a fundamental approach to modern physics / John S. Townsend.
Math/Physics/Astronomy - Reserve QC174.12 .T694 2010
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Townsend, John S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quantum theory--Textbooks.
- Quantum theory.
- Physics--Textbooks.
- Physics.
- Genre:
- Lehrbuch.
- Textbooks
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 411 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mill Valley, California ; New York : University Science Books, ©2010.
- Summary:
- "This innovative modern physics textbook is intended as a first introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications. Townsend's new text shuns the historical ordering that characterizes other so-called modern physics textbooks and applies a truly modern approach to this subject, starting instead with contemporary single-photon and single-atom interference experiments. The text progresses naturally from a thorough introduction to wave mechanics through applications of quantum mechanics to solid-state, nuclear, and particle physics, thereby including most of the topics normally presented in a modern physics course."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Light
- Ch. 2. Wave Mechanics
- Ch. 3. Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation
- Ch. 4. One-Dimensional Potentials
- Ch. 5. Principles of Quantum Mechanics
- Ch. 6. Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions
- Ch. 7. Identical Particles
- Ch. 8. Solid-State Physics
- Ch. 9. Nuclear Physics
- Ch. 10. Particle Physics
- Appendix A. Special Relativity
- Appendix B. Power-Series Solutions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Townsend, John S. Quantum physics.
- ISBN:
- 9781891389627
- 1891389629
- OCLC:
- 317927908
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