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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.
| ISBN-13 | 9781891389627 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1891389629 |
| Weight | 2.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.40 x 1.00 x 10.90 In |
| List Price | $131.00 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 92 pages |
| Publisher | University Science Books |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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