Modern Physics

Name: Modern Physics
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ISBN: 9781572591646

ISBN-10: 1572591641

ISBN-13: 9781572591646

Edition: 3rd 1999

Authors: Paul A. Tipler, Ralph Llewellyn

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This new edition of Modern Physics offers new pedagogy, problems and art. Students are guided through the foundations of modern physics, and introduced to the results of its applications across the spectrum of science and technology.

Book details

List price: $115.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Worth Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 7
Size: 8.26" wide x 10.34" long x 1.28" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English




Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: The Foundation of Modern Physics



Relativity I



The Experimental Basis of Relativity



Einstein's Postulates



The Lorentz Transformation



Time Dilation and Length Contraction



The Doppler Effect



The Twin Paradox and other Surprises



Relativity II



Relativistic Momentum



Relativistic Energy



Mass/Energy Conversion and Binding Energy



Invariant Mass



General Relativity



Quantization of Charge, Light, and Energy



Quantization of Electric Charge



Blackbody Radiation



The Photoelectric Effect



X Rays and the Compton Effect



The Nuclear Atom



Atomic Spectra



Rutherford's Nuclear Model



The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom



X Ray Spectra



The Franck-Hertz Experiment



Critique of Bohr Theory and the "Old Quantum Mechanics"



The Wavelike Properties of Particles



The deBroglie Hypothesis



Measurements of Particle Wavelengths



Wave Packets



Probabilistic Interpretation of the Wave Function



The Uncertainty Principle



Some Consequences of the Uncertainty Principle



Wave-Particle Duality



The SchrÃ¶dinger Equation