Books Details
Author : Paolo Amore Pages : 336 pages Publisher : World Scientific
Publishing Company Language : ISBN-10 : 9814520314 ISBN-13 :
9789814520317
Books Descriptions
Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized in the
twentieth century ? the era of ?modern physics?. The book Introduction
to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, aimed at the very best
students, presents the foundations and frontiers of today's physics.
Typically, students have to wade through several courses to see many of
these topics. The goal is to give them some idea of where they are going,
and how things fit together, as they go along. The book focuses on the
following topics: quantum mechanics; applications in atomic, nuclear,
particle, and condensed-matter physics; special relativity; relativistic
quantum mechanics, including the Dirac equation and Feynman diagrams;
quantum fields; and general relativity. The aim is to cover these topics in
sufficient depth that things ?make sense? to students, and they achieve
an elementary working knowledge of them. The book assumes a one-year,
calculus-based freshman physics course, along with a one-year course in
