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• COVER
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1: SOME DEFICIENCIES OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
• 1.1 REVIEW OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
• 1.2 DEFICIENCIES IN CLASSICAL CONCEPTS OF SPACE AND TIME
• 1.3 DEFICIENCIES IN THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF PARTICLE STATISTICS
• 1.4 THEORY, EXPERIMENT, LAW
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 2: THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• 2.1 CLASSICAL RELATIVITY
• 2.2 THE MICHELSON–MORLEY EXPERIMENT
• 2.3 EINSTEIN’S POSTULATES
• 2.4 CONSEQUENCES OF EINSTEIN’S POSTULATES
• 2.5 THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION
• 2.6 THE TWIN PARADOX
• 2.7 RELATIVISTIC DYNAMICS
• 2.8 CONSERVATION LAWS IN RELATIVISTIC DECAYS AND COLLISIONS
• 2.9 EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 3: THE PARTICLE-LIKE PROPERTIES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
• 3.1 REVIEW OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
• 3.2 THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
• 3.3 THERMAL RADIATION
• 3.4 THE COMPTON EFFECT
• 3.5 OTHER PHOTON PROCESSES
• 3.6 PARTICLES OR WAVES
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 4: THE WAVELIKE PROPERTIES OF PARTICLES
• 4.1 DE BROGLIE’S HYPOTHESIS
• 4.2 EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR DE BROGLIE WAVES
• 4.3 UNCERTAINTY RELATIONSHIPS FOR CLASSICAL WAVES
• 4.4 HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY RELATIONSHIPS
• 4.5 WAVE PACKETS
• 4.6 THE MOTION OF A WAVE PACKET
• 4.7 PROBABILITY AND RANDOMNESS
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 5: THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION
• 5.1 BEHAVIOR OF A WAVE AT A BOUNDARY
• 5.2 CONFINING A PARTICLE
• 5.3 THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION
• 5.4 APPLICATIONS OF THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION
• 5.5 THE SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR
• 5.6 STEPS AND BARRIERS
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 6: THE RUTHERFORD-BOHR MODEL OF THE ATOM
• 6.1 BASIC PROPERTIES OF ATOMS
• 6.2 SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS AND THE THOMSON MODEL
• 6.3 THE RUTHERFORD NUCLEAR ATOM
• 6.4 LINE SPECTRA
• 6.5 THE BOHR MODEL
• 6.6 THE FRANCK–HERTZ EXPERIMENT
• *6.7 THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE
• 6.8 DEFICIENCIES OF THE BOHR MODEL
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 7: THE HYDROGEN ATOM IN WAVE MECHANICS
• 7.1 A ONE-DIMENSIONAL ATOM
• 7.2 ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN THE HYDROGEN ATOM
• 7.3 THE HYDROGEN ATOM WAVE FUNCTIONS
• 7.4 RADIAL PROBABILITY DENSITIES
• 7.5 ANGULAR PROBABILITY DENSITIES
• 7.6 INTRINSIC SPIN
• 7.7 ENERGY LEVELS AND SPECTROSCOPIC NOTATION
• *7.8 THE ZEEMAN EFFECT
• *7.9 FINE STRUCTURE
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 8: MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS
• 8.1 THE PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE
• 8.2 ELECTRONIC STATES IN MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS
• 8.3 OUTER ELECTRONS: SCREENING AND OPTICAL TRANSITIONS
• 8.4 PROPERTIES OF THE ELEMENTS
• 8.5 INNER ELECTRONS: ABSORPTION EDGES AND X RAYS
• *8.6 ADDITION OF ANGULAR MOMENTA
• 8.7 LASERS
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 9: MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
• 9.1 THE HYDROGEN MOLECULE
• 9.2 COVALENT BONDING IN MOLECULES
• 9.3 IONIC BONDING
• 9.4 MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS
• 9.5 MOLECULAR ROTATIONS
• 9.6 MOLECULAR SPECTRA
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 10: STATISTICAL PHYSICS
• 10.1 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• 10.2 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM STATISTICS
• 10.3 THE DENSITY OF STATES
• 10.4 THE MAXWELL–BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION
• 10.5 QUANTUM STATISTICS
• 10.6 APPLICATIONS OF BOSE–EINSTEIN STATISTICS
• 10.7 APPLICATIONS OF FERMI–DIRAC STATISTICS
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 11: SOLID-STATE PHYSICS
• 11.1 CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
• 11.2 THE HEAT CAPACITY OF SOLIDS
• 11.3 ELECTRONS IN METALS
• 11.4 BAND THEORY OF SOLIDS
• 11.5 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
• 11.6 INTRINSIC AND IMPURITY SEMICONDUCTORS
• 11.7 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
• 11.8 MAGNETIC MATERIALS
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 12: NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND RADIOACTIVITY
• 12.1 NUCLEAR CONSTITUENTS
• 12.2 NUCLEAR SIZES AND SHAPES
• 12.3 NUCLEAR MASSES AND BINDING ENERGIES
• 12.4 THE NUCLEAR FORCE
• 12.5 QUANTUM STATES IN NUCLEI
• 12.6 RADIOACTIVE DECAY
• 12.7 ALPHA DECAY
• 12.8 BETA DECAY
• 12.9 GAMMA DECAY AND NUCLEAR EXCITED STATES
• 12.10 NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 13: NUCLEAR REACTIONS AND APPLICATIONS
• 13.1 TYPES OF NUCLEAR REACTIONS
• 13.2 RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION IN NUCLEAR REACTIONS
• 13.3 LOW-ENERGY REACTION KINEMATICS
• 13.4 FISSION
• 13.5 FUSION
• 13.6 NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
• 13.7 APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 14: ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
• 14.1 THE FOUR BASIC FORCES
• 14.2 CLASSIFYING PARTICLES
• 14.3 CONSERVATION LAWS
• 14.4 PARTICLE INTERACTIONS AND DECAYS
• 14.5 ENERGY AND MOMENTUM IN PARTICLE DECAYS
• 14.6 ENERGY AND MOMENTUM IN PARTICLE REACTIONS
• 14.7 THE QUARK STRUCTURE OF MESONS AND BARYONS
• 14.8 THE STANDARD MODEL
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• CHAPTER 15: COSMOLOGY: THE ORIGIN AND FATE OF THE UNIVERSE
• 15.1 THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE
• 15.2 THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION
• 15.3 DARK MATTER
• 15.4 THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• 15.5 TESTS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
• 15.6 STELLAR EVOLUTION AND BLACK HOLES
• 15.7 COSMOLOGY AND GENERAL RELATIVITY
• 15.8 THE BIG BANG COSMOLOGY
• 15.9 THE FORMATION OF NUCLEI AND ATOMS
• 15.10 EXPERIMENTAL COSMOLOGY
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• QUESTIONS
• PROBLEMS
• APPENDIX A: CONSTANTS AND CONVERSION FACTORS*
• APPENDIX B: COMPLEX NUMBERS
• APPENDIX C: PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
• APPENDIX D: TABLE OF ATOMIC MASSES
• APPENDIX E: SOME MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHYSICS
• ANSWERS TO ODD-NUMBERED PROBLEMS
• INDEX
• INDEX TO TABLES
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