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This concise treatment embraces, in four parts, all the main aspects of theoretical physics. Recent topics such as holography and quantum cryptography are included. The book summarizes what a graduate student, physicist working in industry, or a physics teacher should master during his or her degree course. It will also be useful for deepening one's insight and it adds new dimensions to understanding of these elemental concepts.

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Author:   Uwe Krey ,  Anthony Owen
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9783642071898

ISBN 10:   3642071899
Pages:   452
Publication Date:   06 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Mechanics and Basic Relativity.- Space and Time.- Force and Mass.- Basic Mechanics of Motion in One Dimension.- Mechanics of the Damped and Driven Harmonic Oscillator.- The Three Classical Conservation Laws; Two-particle Problems.- Motion in a Central Force Field; Kepler’s Problem.- The Rutherford Scattering Cross-section.- Lagrange Formalism I: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian.- Relativity I: The Principle of Maximal Proper Time (Eigenzeit).- Coupled Small Oscillations.- Rigid Bodies.- Remarks on Non-integrable Systems: Chaos.- Lagrange Formalism II: Constraints.- Accelerated Reference Frames.- Relativity II: E=ms2.- Electrodynamics and Aspects of Optics.- and Mathematical Preliminaries to Part II.- Electrostatics and Magnetostatics.- Magnetic Field of Steady Electric Currents.- Maxwell’s Equations I: Faraday’s Law of Induction; the Continuity Equation; Maxwell’s Displacement Current.- Maxwell’s Equations II: Electromagnetic Waves.- Applications of Electrodynamics in the Field of Optics.- Conclusion to Part II.- Quantum Mechanics.- On the History of Quantum Mechanics.- Quantum Mechanics: Foundations.- One-dimensional Problems in Quantum Mechanics.- The Harmonic Oscillator I.- The Hydrogen Atom according to Schrödinger’s Wave Mechanics.- Abstract Quantum Mechanics (Algebraic Methods).- Spin Momentum and the Pauli Principle (Spin-statistics Theorem).- Spin-orbit Interaction; Addition of Angular Momenta.- Ritz Minimization.- Perturbation Theory for Static Problems.- Time-dependent Perturbations.- Magnetism: An Essentially Quantum Mechanical Phenomenon.- Cooper Pairs; Superconductors and Superfluids.- On the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Reality?, Locality?, Retardation?).- Quantum Mechanics: Retrospect and Prospect.- Appendix: “Mutual Preparation Algorithm” for Quantum Cryptography.- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics.- and Overview to Part IV.- Phenomenological Thermodynamics: Temperature and Heat.- The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.- Phase Changes, van der Waals Theory and Related Topics.- The Kinetic Theory of Gases.- Statistical Physics.- The Transition to Classical Statistical Physics.- Advanced Discussion of the Second Law.- Shannon’s Information Entropy.- Canonical Ensembles in Phenomenological Thermodynamics.- The Clausius-Clapeyron Equation.- Production of Low and Ultralow Temperatures; Third Law of Thermodynamics.- General Statistical Physics (Formal Completion; the Statistical Operator; Trace Formalism).- Ideal Bose and Fermi Gases.- Applications I: Fermions, Bosons, Condensation Phenomena.- Applications II: Phase Equilibria in Chemical Physics.- Conclusion to Part IV.

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From the reviews: A comprehensive work covering the material that graduate students in physics typically would study in preparing for doctoral candidacy examinations. ! This book would be very useful for self-study by motivated students, or for preparation for candidacy exams. ! Practicing physicists may find that the brief, accessible treatments of many topics will earn this book a place on a convenient bookshelf. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (M. C. Ogilvie, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (7), 2008) The book, written by two ! 'working physicists', contains what the authors regard as being 'basic knowledge' in the standard courses of theoretical physics (yet) held at German Universities. ! is primarily intended to cover the 'Basic Theoretical Physics' in a single and handy volume. ! Hence, the book should be considered as being a kind of 'compendium' of ! formulas used in theoretical physics where the formulas are filled in between with some remarks. (Jurgen Tolksdorf, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1134 (12), 2008)

From the reviews: A comprehensive work covering the material that graduate students in physics typically would study in preparing for doctoral candidacy examinations. ... This book would be very useful for self-study by motivated students, or for preparation for candidacy exams. ... Practicing physicists may find that the brief, accessible treatments of many topics will earn this book a place on a convenient bookshelf. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (M. C. Ogilvie, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (7), 2008) The book, written by two ... `working physicists', contains what the authors regard as being `basic knowledge' in the standard courses of theoretical physics (yet) held at German Universities. ... is primarily intended to cover the `Basic Theoretical Physics' in a single and handy volume. ... Hence, the book should be considered as being a kind of `compendium' of ... formulas used in theoretical physics where the formulas are filled in between with some remarks. (Jurgen Tolksdorf, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1134 (12), 2008)

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