Essays in Physics
Thirty-two thoughtful essays on topics in undergraduate-level physics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 July 2021
- ISBN 9780198857259
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages488 pages
- Size 247x190x23 mm
- Weight 1018 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 161 line drawings and halftones 121
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Short description:
Essays in Physics is a consideration of the more puzzling and exciting aspects of physics, including discussions of many errors and misconceptions in the field.
MoreLong description:
Each of this book's 32 essays discusses a chosen topic, at a level that is generally within that of a four-year degree course in Physics. The essays supplement (indeed sometimes correct) treatments usually given, or supplies reasoning that tends to fall through the cracks. The author uses his life long experience of tutorial teaching at Oxford to know what topics often need such discussion, for clarification, or for avoidance of common confusions. The book contains accounts of even-standard topics, accounts that offer an unusual emphasis, or a fresh insight, or more than customary rigour, or a cross-link to apparently unrelated material.
The student (and their teachers) who really wants to understand physics will find this book indispensable. Often the outcome of tutorial discussion has been an understanding that lies a little to the side of what is presented in standard texts. Such understanding is presented here in the essays. The topics covered are diverse and have something useful to say across most areas of a physics degree.
An intriguing and provocative addition to the standard textbooks, well written and in an informal style, providing much food for thought for teachers and students alike.
Table of Contents:
Electromagnetic energy
Electromagnetism: microscopic and macroscopic fields
Vector theorems
Longitudinal and transverse waves
Transmission lines, the universe and everything
Counting quantum states and field modes
Four-vectors in relativity
The Lorentz transformation
Diffraction integrals and the Kirchhoff approximation
Diffraction at a slit
Symmetry in quantum mechanics
Successive approximation; perturbation theory in quantum mechanics
The hydrogen atom
Identical particles and the helium atom
Helium: energies for singlets and triplets
LS coupling; Hund's rules
Terms in LS coupling
The Zeeman effect
The Einstein A and B coefficients
The Boltzmann distribution and molecular gases
Free energy
Energy of a magnetic body: -m dB or +B dm?
The Debye theory of solid-state heat capacities
Umklapp collisions and thermal conductivity
Electrons and holes in semiconductors
The chemical potential for a semiconductor
Heat capacity of electrons
Electrons in a square lattice
Negative feedback
Stability of negative feedback
Quantization of waves: the stretched string
Spontaneous emission of radiation
