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Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Modern Physics, Second Edition

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Modern Physics, Second Edition

Authors: Ronald Gautreau and William Savin

Published: 1999

ISBN: 9780071367899 0070248303

Contents

PART I THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

CHAPTER 1 GALILEAN TRANSFORMATIONS

1.1 Events and Coordinates

1.2 Galilean Coordinate Transformations

1.3 Galilean Velocity Transformations

1.4 Galilean Acceleration Transformations

1.5 Invariance of an Equation

CHAPTER 2 THE POSTULATES OF EINSTEIN

2.1 Absolute Space and the Ether

2.2 The Michelson-Morley Experiment

2.3 Length and Time Measurements-A Question of Principle

2.4 The Postulates of Einstein

CHAPTER 3 THE LORENTZ COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS

3.1 The Constancy of the Speed of Light

3.2 The Invariance of Maxwell's Equations

3.3 General Considerations in Solving Problems Involving Lorentz Transformations

3.4 Simultaneity

CHAPTER 4 RELATIVISTIC LENGTH CONTRACTION

4.1 The Definition of Length

CHAPTER 5 RELATIVISTIC TIME DILATION

5.1 Proper Time

5.2 Time Dilation

CHAPTER 6 RELATIVISTIC SPACE-TIME MEASUREMENTS

CHAPTER 7 RELATIVISTIC VELOCITY TRANSFORMATIONS

7.1 The Lorentz Velocity Transformations and the Speed of Light

7.2 General Considerations in Solving Velocity Problems

7.3 The Relativistic Doppler Effect

CHAPTER 8 MASS, ENERGY, AND MOMENTUM IN RELATIVITY

8.1 The Need to Redefine Classical Momentum

8.2 The Variation of Mass with Velocity

8.3 Newton's Second Law in Relativity

8.4 Mass and Energy Relationship: E = mc2

8.5 Momentum and Energy Relationship

8.6 Units for Energy and Momentum

8.7 General Considerations in Solving Mass-Energy Problems

PART II THE QUANTUM THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AND MATTER

CHAPTER 9 ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION-PHOTONS

9.1 The Theory of Photons

9.2 The Photoelectric Effect

9.3 The Compton Effect

9.4 Pair Production and Annihilation

9.5 Absorption of Photons

CHAPTER 10 MATTER WAVES

10.1 De Broglie Waves

10.2 Experimental Verification of De Broglie's Hypothesis

10.3 The Probability Interpretation of De Broglie Waves

10.4 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

PART III HYDROGENLIKE ATOMS

CHAPTER 11 THE BOHR ATOM

11.1 The Hydrogen Spectrum

11.2 The Bohr Theory of the Hydrogen Atom

11.3 Emission of Radiation in Bohr's Theory

11.4 Energy Level Diagrams

11.5 Hydrogenic Atoms

CHAPTER 12 ELECTRON ORBITAL MOTION

12.1 Orbital Angular Momentum from a Classical Viewpoint

12.2 Classical Magnetic Dipole Moment

12.3 Classical Energy of a Magnetic Dipole Moment in an External Magnetic Field

12.4 The Zeeman Experiment

12.5 Quantization of the Magnitude of the Orbital Angular Momentum

12.6 Quantization of the Direction of the Orbital Angular Momentum

12.7 Explanation of the Zeeman Effect

CHAPTER 13 ELECTRON SPIN

13.1 The Stern-Gerlach Experiment

13.2 Electron Spin

13.3 Spin-Orbit Coupling

13.4 Fine Structure

13.5 Total Angular Momentum (The Vector Model)

PART IV MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS

CHAPTER 14 THE PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE

14.1 Quantum-Mechanical Systems with More Than One Electron

14.2 The Pauli Exclusion Principle

14.3 A Single Particle in a One-Dimensional Box

14.4 Many Particles in a One-Dimensional Box

CHAPTER 15 MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS AND THE PERIODIC TABLE

15.1 Spectroscopic Notation for Electron Configurations in Atoms

15.2 The Periodic Table and an Atomic Shell Model

15.3 Spectroscopic Notation for Atomic States

15.4 Atomic Excited States and LS Coupling

15.5 The Anomalous Zeeman Effect

CHAPTER 16 X-RAYS

16.1 X-Ray Apparatus

16.2 Production of Bremsstrahlung

16.3 Production of Characteristic X-Ray Spectra

16.4 The Moseley Relation

16.5 X-Ray Absorption Edges

16.6 Auger Effect

16.7 X-Ray Fluorescence

PART V NUCLEAR PHYSICS

CHAPTER 17 PROPERTIES OF NUCLEI

17.1 The Nucleons

17.2 Nucleon Forces

17.3 The Deuteron

17.4 Nuclei

17.5 The Nucleus as a Sphere

17.6 Nuclear Binding Energy

CHAPTER 18 NUCLEAR MODELS

18.1 Liquid Drop Model

18.2 Shell Model

CHAPTER 19 THE DECAY OF UNSTABLE NUCLEI

19.1 Nuclear Decay

19.2 The Statistical Radioactive Decay Law

19.3 Gamma Decay

19.4 Alpha Decay

19.5 Beta Decay and the Neutrino

CHAPTER 20 NUCLEAR REACTIONS

20.1 Notation

20.2 Classification of Nuclear Reactions

20.3 Laboratory and Center-of-Mass Systems

20.4 Energetics of Nuclear Reactions

20.5 Nuclear Cross Sections

20.6 Nuclear Fission

20.7 Nuclear Fusion

CHAPTER 21 PARTICLE PHYSICS

21.1 Particle Genealogy

21.2 Particle Interactions

21.3 Conservation Laws

21.4 Conservation of Leptons

21.5 Conservation of Baryons

21.6 Conservation of Strangeness

21.7 Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Parity

21.8 Short-Lived Particles and the Resonances

21.9 The Eightfold Way

21.10 Quarks

PART VI ATOMIC SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 22 MOLECULES

22.1 Molecular Bonding

22.2 Excitations of Diatomic Molecules

CHAPTER 23 KINETIC THEORY

23.1 Average Values in a Gas

23.2 The Ideal Gas Law

CHAPTER 24 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS

24.1 Discrete Distribution Functions

24.2 Continuous Distribution Functions

24.3 Fundamental Distribution Functions and Density of States

CHAPTER 25 CLASSICAL STATISTICS: THE MAXWELL- BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION

CHAPTER 26 QUANTUM STATISTICS: FERMI-DIRAC AND BOSE-EINSTEIN DISTRIBUTIONS

26.1 Fermi-Dirac Statistics

26.2 Bose-Einstein Statistics

26.3 High-Temperature Limit

26.4 Two Useful Integrals

26.5 Blackbody Radiation

26.6 Free Electron Theory of Metals

26.7 Specific Heats of Crystalline Solids

26.8 The Quantum-Mechanical Ideal Gas

26.9 Derivation of the Quantum Distribution Functions

CHAPTER 27 SOLIDS

27.1 The Band Theory of Solids

27.2 Superconductivity

Appendix

Some Fundamental Constants in Convenient Units

Some Useful Conversions

Masses of Some Particles

Masses of Neutral Atoms

Index