Modern Physics

Name: Modern Physics
Price: 10.93 USD
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ISBN: 9780139553110

ISBN-10: 0139553118

ISBN-13: 9780139553110

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jeremy Bernstein, Paul M. Fishbane, Stephen G. Gasiorowicz

List price: $156.00

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For sophomore-level courses in modern physics. This comprehensive text provides a clear, correct, and up-to-date introduction and survey of the topics of importance to tomorrow's engineers and scientists. The presentation includes the description of the history of the topics, to show students how we got to where we are; it stresses the importance of observation and experiment; and it emphasizes numbers, so that students develop a feel for the magnitudes involved and for when different principles become important.

Book details

List price: $156.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/24/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English




A Review



Relativity



The Basics of Relativity



Consequences of Relativity



The Origins of Quantum Mechanics



Waves as Particles and Particles as Waves



Atoms and the Bohr Model



The Schrï¿½dinger Equation



Classical and Unclassical behavior: Wave Packets and Uncertainty



Barriers and Wells



The Hydrogen Atom



Many Particles



Applications



Complex Atoms and Molecules



Statistical Physics



Atoms, Radiation and Lasers



Conductors, Insulators, and Superconductors



The Atomic Nucleus



Frontiers



Elementary Particle Physics



General Relativity



Cosmology



Physical Constants



Mathematics