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CLASSICAL MECHANICS
WITH APPLICATIONS
by Porter Wear Johnson (Illinois Institute of Technology,
USA)
296pp
978-981-4304-15-3: US$56 / £37 US$42 /
£27.75
This textbook — appropriate for a one-semester course in
classical mechanics at the late undergraduate or early graduate level —
presents a fresh, modern approach to mechanics. About 150 exercises,
covering a wide variety of topics and applications, have solutions
roughly outlined for enhanced understanding. Unique to this text is the
versatile application of programming language Mathematica™ throughout
to analyze systems and generate results. Coverage is also devoted to
the topic on one dimensional continuum systems. The extensive
discussions on inverse problems of mechanical systems and the detailed
analysis of stability of classical systems certainly make this an
outstanding textbook.
Contents:
- One Degree of Freedom
- Systems with a Few Degrees of Freedom
- Systems of Particles
- Noninertial Coordinate Systems
- Gravitation
- Collisions and Scattering
- Hamiltonian Mechanics
- Stability and Instability
- Continuous Systems
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ADVANCED MODERN PHYSICS
Theoretical Foundations
by John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)
500pp (approx.)
978-981-4291-52-1(pbk): US$65 / £43 US$48.75
/ £32.25
978-981-4291-51-4: US$88 / £58 US$66 /
£43.50
Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized
in the twentieth century-the era of "modern physics". This book, aimed
at the very best students, extends the coverage of the theoretical
groundwork of today's physics presented in the previous volume:
Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations (Vol. I).
Typically, students have to wade through several courses to see many of
these topics. The goal is to give them some idea of where they are
going, and how things fit together, as they go along.
The present book focuses on the following topics:
reformulation of quantum mechanics, angular momentum, scattering
theory, lagrangian field theory, symmetries, Feynman rules, quantum
electrodynamics, including higher-order contributions, path integrals,
and canonical transformations for quantum systems. Many problems are
included that enhance and extend the coverage. The book assumes a
mastery of the material in Vol. I, and the continued development of
mathematical skills, including multivariable calculus and linear
algebra. Several appendices provide important details, and any
additional required mathematics. The reader should then find the text,
together with the appendices and problems, to be self-contained. The
aim is to cover the framework of modern theoretical physics in
sufficient depth that things "make sense" to students, and, when
finished, the reader should have an elementary working knowledge in the
principal areas of theoretical physics of the twentieth century.
Contents:
- Quantum Mechanics (Revisited)
- Angular Momentum
- Scattering Theory
- Lagrangian Field Theory
- Symmetries
- Feynman Rules
- Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)
- High-Order Processes
- Path Integrals
- Canonical Transformations for Quantum Systems
- Appendices:
- Multipole Analysis of the Radiation Field
- Functions of a Complex Variable
- Irreducible Representations of SU(n)
- Lorentz Transformations in Quantum Field
Theory
- Green's Functions and Other Singular
Functions
- Dimensional Regularization
- Path Integrals and the Electromagnetic Field
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