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Modern Physics from α to Z0

James W. Rohlf · John Wiley & Sons, 1994

Cover of Modern Physics from alpha to Z-zero by James W. Rohlf, published by John Wiley and Sons.

An undergraduate text covering twentieth-century physics from the quantum of action to the Z0 boson — 646 pages, taking the reader from Planck's constant and special relativity through the atom and the nucleus to the unification of the forces and the early universe.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, 1994
ISBN0-471-57270-5
Pages646

Contents

  1. Survey of Particles and Forces
  2. Distribution Functions and kT
  3. Planck's Constant
  4. Special Relativity
  5. Wave Properties of Particles and the Uncertainty Principle
  6. Rutherford Scattering
  7. The Schrödinger Equation
  8. The Hydrogen Atom
  9. Beyond the Hydrogen Atom
  10. Molecules and Molecular Spectra
  11. The Nucleus
  12. Quantum Statistics
  13. Masers and Lasers
  14. Conductors, Insulators, and Semiconductors
  15. Superconductivity
  16. High-Energy Physics: The Gadgets
  17. High-Energy Physics: Classification of the Particles
  18. High-Energy Physics: Unification of the Forces
  19. The Early Universe

Other books, including Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism and the Mathematica notebooks, are listed on the main page.