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Mechanics [[electronic resource] /] / by L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell
| Mechanics [[electronic resource] /] / by L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell |
| Autore | Landau L. D |
| Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Elsevier, 1976 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (199 p.) |
| Disciplina | 530 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LifshitzE. M
SykesJ. B BellJ. S |
| Collana | Course of theoretical physics |
| Soggetto topico | Mechanics, Analytic |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-299-40289-5
0-08-050347-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Mechanics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; L.D. Landau-a biography; Chapter 1. The Equations of Motion; 1. Generalised co-ordinates; 2. The principle of least action; 3. Galileo's relativity principle; 4. The Lagrangian for a free particle; 5. The Lagrangian for a system of particles; Chapter 2. Conservation Laws; 6. Energy; 7. Momentum; 8. Centre of mass; 9. Angular momentum; 10. Mechanical similarity; Chapter 3. Integration of the Equations of Motion; 11. Motion in one dimension; 12. Determination of the potential energy from the period of oscillation
13. The reduced mass14. Motion in a central field; 15. Kepler's problem; Chapter 4. Collisions Between Particles; 16. Disintegration of particles; 17. Elastic collisions; 18. Scattering; 19. Rutherford's formula; 20. Small-angle scattering; Chapter 5. Small Oscillations; 21. Free oscillations in one dimension; 22. Forced oscillations; 23. Oscillations of systems with more than one degree of freedom; 24. Vibrations of molecules; 25. Damped oscillations; 26. Forced oscillations under friction; 27. Parametric resonance; 28. Anharmonic oscillations 29. Resonance in non-linear oscillations30. Motion in a rapidly oscillating field; Chapter 6. Motion of a Rigid Body; 31. Angular velocity; 32. The inertia tensor; 33. Angular momentum of a rigid body; 34. The equations of motion of a rigid body; 35. Eulerian angles; 36. Euler's equations; 37. The asymmetrical top; 38. Rigid bodies in contact; 39. Motion in a non-inertial frame of reference; Chapter 7. The Canonical Equations; 40. Hamilton's equations; 41. The Routhian; 42. Poisson brackets; 43. The action as a function of the co-ordinates; 44. Maupertuis' principle 45. Canonical transformations46. Liouville's theorem; 47. The Hamilton-Jacobi equation; 48. Separation of the variables; 49. Adiabatic invariants; 50. Canonical variables; 51. Accuracy of conservation of the adiabatic invariant; 52. Conditionally periodic motion; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511499303321 |
Landau L. D
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| Oxford, : Elsevier, 1976 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Quantum electrodynamics / / by V.B. Berestetskii, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell
| Quantum electrodynamics / / by V.B. Berestetskii, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell |
| Autore | Berestetskii V. B (Vladimir Borisovich) |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1982 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (669 p.) |
| Disciplina | 537.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LifshitsE. M (Evgenii Mikhailovich)
PitaevskiiL. P (Lev Petrovich) BerestetskiiV. B (Vladimir Borisovich) SykesJ. B (John Bradbury) BellJ. S |
| Collana | Course of theoretical physics |
| Soggetto topico | Quantum electrodynamics |
| ISBN |
1-280-58278-2
9786613612564 0-08-050346-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Quantum Electrodynamics: Course of Theoretical Physics; Copyright Page; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTATION; INTRODUCTION; 1. The uncertainty principle in the relativistic case; CHAPTER I. PHOTONS; 2. Quantization of the free electromagnetic field; 3. Photons; 4. Gauge invariance; 5. The electromagnetic field in quantum theory; 6. The angular momentum and parity of the photon; 7. Spherical waves of photons; 8. The polarization of the photon; 9. A two-photon system; CHAPTER II. BOSONS
10. The wave equation for particles with spin zero11. Particles and antiparticles; 12. Strictly neutral particles; 13. The transformations C, P and T; 14. The wave equation for a particle with spin one; 15. The wave equation for particles with higher integral spins; 16. Helicity states of a particle; CHAPTER III. FERMIONS; 17. Four-dimensional spinors; 18. The relation between spinors and 4-vectors; 19. Inversion of spinors; 20. Dirac's equation in the spinor representation; 21. The symmetrical form of Dirac's equation; 22. Algebra of Dirac matrices; 23. Plane waves; 24. Spherical waves 25. The relation between the spin and the statistics 26. Charge conjugation and time reversal of spinors; 27. Internal symmetry of particles and antiparticles; 28. Bilinear forms; 29. The polarization density matrix; 30. Neutrinos; 31. The wave equation for a particle with spin 3/2; CHAPTER IV. PARTICLES IN AN EXTERNAL FIELD; 32. Dirac's equation for an electron in an external field; 33: Expansion in powers of 1/c; 34. Fine structure of levels of the hydrogen atom; 35. Motion in a centrally symmetric field; 36. Motion in a Coulomb field; 37. Scattering in a centrally symmetric field 38. Scattering in the ultra-relativistic case 39. The continuous-spectrum wave functions for scattering in a Coulomb field; 40. An electron in the field of an electromagnetic plane wave; 41. Motion of spin in an external field; 42. Neutron scattering in an electric field; CHAPTER V. RADIATION; 43. The electromagnetic interaction operator; 44. Emission and absorption; 45. Dipole radiation; 46. Electric multipole radiation; 47. Magnetic multipole radiation; 48. Angular distribution and polarization of the radiation; 49. Radiation from atoms: the electric type 50. Radiation from atoms: the magnetic type51. Radiation from atoms: the Zeeman and Stark effects; 52. Radiation from atoms: the hydrogen atom; 53. Radiation from diatomic molecules: electronic spectra; 54. Radiation from diatomic molecules: vibrational and rotational spectra; 55. Radiation from nuclei; 56. The photoelectric effect: non-relativistic case; 57. The photoelectric effect: relativistic case; 58. Photodisintegration of the deuteron; CHAPTER VI. SCATTERING OF RADIATION; 59. The scattering tensor; 60. Scattering by freely oriented systems; 61. Scattering by molecules 62. Natural width of spectral lines |
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Berestetskii V. B (Vladimir Borisovich)
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| Oxford, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1982 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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