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Theories of Matter, Space, and Time - Quantum Theories (Paperback)
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Theories of Matter, Space, and Time - Quantum Theories (Paperback)
Series: IOP Concise Physics
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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 MPhys
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.
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