Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics
- ISBN13:
9780131495081
- ISBN10:
0131495089
- Edition: 4th
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2008-08-25
- Publisher: Savvas Learning Company
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Summary
This book is written for students. It aims to explain physics in a readable and interesting manner that is accessible and clear, and to teach students by anticipating their needs and difficulties without oversimplifying.
Table of Contents
| Note: CHS 36-44 not Final; TOC Taken from PSE3 | |
| Special Theory of Relativity | |
| Galilean-Newtonian Relativity | |
| The Michelson-Morley Experiment | |
| Postulates of the Special Theory of Relativity | |
| Simultaneity | |
| Time Dilation and the Twin Paradox | |
| Length Contraction | |
| Four-Dimensional Space-Time | |
| Galilean and Lorentz Transformations | |
| Relativistic Momentum and Mass | |
| The Ultimate Speed | |
| Energy and Mass;E=mc 2 | |
| Doppler Shift for Light | |
| The Impact of Special Relativity | |
| Summary | |
| Questions | |
| Problems | |
| General Problems | |
| Early Quantum Theory and Models of the Atom | |
| Planckrsquo;s Quantum Hypothesis | |
| Photon Theory of Light and the Photoelectric Effect | |
| Photons and the Compton Effect | |
| Photon Interactions; Pair Production | |
| Wave-Particle Duality; the Principle of Complementarity | |
| Wave Nature of Matter | |
| Electron Microscopes | |
| Early Models of the Atom | |
| Atomic Spectra: Key to the Structure of the Atom | |
| The Bohr Model | |
| DeBrogliersquo;s Hypothesis Applied to Atoms | |
| Summary | |
| Questions | |
| Problems | |
| General Problems | |
| Quantum Mechanics | |
| Quantum Mechanics-A New Theory | |
| The Wave Function and Its Interpretation; the Double-Slit Experiment | |
| The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle | |
| Philosophic Implications; Probability Versus Determinism | |
| The Schrodinger Equation in One Dimension-Time-Independent Form | |
| Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation | |
| Free Particles; Plane Waves and Wave Packets | |
| Particle in an Infinitely Deep Square Well Potential (a Rigid Box) | |
| Finite Potential Well | |
| Tunneling through a Barrier | |
| Summary | |
| Questions | |
| Problems | |
| General Problems | |
| Quantum Mechanics of Atoms | |
| Quantum-Mechanical View of Atoms | |
| Hydrogen Atom: Schrodinger Equation and Quantum Numbers | |
| Hydrogen Atom Wave Functions | |
| Complex Atoms; the Exclusion Principle | |
| The Periodic Table of Elements | |
| X-Ray Spectra and Atomic Number | |
| Magnetic Dipole Moments; Total Angular Momentum | |
| Fluorescence and Phosphorescence | |
| Lasers | |
| Holography | |
| Summary | |
| Questions | |
| Problems | |
| General Problem | |
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