Quantum Physics: A Fundamental Approach to Modern Physics

Quantum Physics: A Fundamental Approach to Modern Physics
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This brilliantly innovative textbook is intended as a first introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications. Townsend's new text shuns the historical ordering that characterizes so-called Modern Physics textbooks and applies a truly modern approach to this subject, starting instead with contemporary single-photon and single-atom interference experiments. The text progresses naturally from a thorough introduction to wave mechanics through applications of quantum mechanics to solid-state, nuclear, and particle physics, thereby including most of the topics normally presented in a Modern Physics course. Examples of topics include blackbody radiation, Bose-Einstein condensation, the band-structure of solids and the silicon revolution, the curve of binding energy and nuclear fission and fusion, and the Standard Model of particle physics. Students can see in quantum mechanics a common thread that ties these topics into a coherent picture of how the world works, a picture that gives students confidence that quantum mechanics really works, too. The book also includes a chapter-length appendix on special relativity for the benefit of students who have not had a previous exposure to this subject. Also available is an accompanying, detailed Instructor's Solutions Manual for adopting professors.
Country USA
Brand Brand: University Science Books
Manufacturer University Science Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Model Illustrated
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781891389627
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: University Science Books
Manufacturer	University Science Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Model	Illustrated
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781891389627
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Quantum Physics: A Fundamental Approach to Modern Physics

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