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King Steve - Theories Of Matter Space And Time Quantum Theories - Paperback
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Description: This book and its prequel (Theories of Matter Space and Time: Classical Theories) grew out of courses that are taught by the authors on the undergraduate degree program in physics at Southampton University UK. The authors aim to guide the full M Phys undergraduate cohort through some of the trickier areas of theoretical physics that undergraduates are expected to master. To move beyond the initial courses in classical mechanics special relativity electromagnetism and quantum theory to more sophisticated views of these subjects and their interdependence. This approach keeps the analysis as concise and physical as possible whilst revealing the key elegance in each subject discussed. This second book of the pair looks at ideas to the arena of Quantum Mechanics. First quickly reviewing the basics of quantum mechanics which should be familiar to the reader from a first course it then links the Schrodinger equation to the Principle of Least Action introducing Feynman's path integral methods. Next it presents the relativistic wave equations of Klein Gordon and Dirac. Finally Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism are converted to a wave equation for photons and make contact with Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) at a first quantized level. Between the two volumes the authors hope to move a student's understanding from their first courses to a place where they are ready to embark on graduate level courses on quantum field theory.
Title: Theories Of Matter Space And Time Quantum Theories
Author(s): King Steve
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Barcode: 9781681749808
Pages: 91 Pages
Publication Date: 6/11/2018
Series: IOP Concise Physics
Category: Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory)
Description: This book and its prequel (Theories of Matter Space and Time: Classical Theories) grew out of courses that are taught by the authors on the undergraduate degree program in physics at Southampton University UK. The authors aim to guide the full M Phys undergraduate cohort through some of the trickier areas of theoretical physics that undergraduates are expected to master. To move beyond the initial courses in classical mechanics special relativity electromagnetism and quantum theory to more sophisticated views of these subjects and their interdependence. This approach keeps the analysis as concise and physical as possible whilst revealing the key elegance in each subject discussed. This second book of the pair looks at ideas to the arena of Quantum Mechanics. First quickly reviewing the basics of quantum mechanics which should be familiar to the reader from a first course it then links the Schrodinger equation to the Principle of Least Action introducing Feynman's path integral methods. Next it presents the relativistic wave equations of Klein Gordon and Dirac. Finally Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism are converted to a wave equation for photons and make contact with Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) at a first quantized level. Between the two volumes the authors hope to move a student's understanding from their first courses to a place where they are ready to embark on graduate level courses on quantum field theory.
Title: Theories Of Matter Space And Time Quantum Theories
Author(s): King Steve
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Barcode: 9781681749808
Pages: 91 Pages
Publication Date: 6/11/2018
Series: IOP Concise Physics
Category: Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory)
