Overview
- Serves as a concise review and preparation aid
- Comprehensive compendium in one volume
- Summarizes what a graduate student, physicist working in industry, or a physics teacher should master during his or her degree course
- Comprehensively embraces the whole of theoretical physics
- Also useful to deepen one’s insight and add new dimensions to one's understanding of these elemental concepts
- Addresses recent applications such as holography and quantum cryptography, thus making this a unique contribution among comparable books
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (55 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mechanics and Basic Relativity
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Electrodynamics and Aspects of Optics
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About this book
This concise treatment embraces, in four parts, all the main aspects of theoretical physics (I . Mechanics and Basic Relativity, II. Electrodynamics and Aspects of Optics, III. Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics, IV. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics). It summarizes the material that every graduate student, physicist working in industry, or physics teacher should master during his or her degree course. It thus serves both as an excellent revision and preparation tool, and as a convenient reference source, covering the whole of theoretical physics. It may also be successfully employed to deepen its readers' insight and add new dimensions to their understanding of these fundamental concepts. Recent topics such as holography and quantum cryptography are included, thus making this a unique contribution to the learning material for theoretical physics.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"A comprehensive work covering the material that graduate students in physics typically would study in preparing for doctoral candidacy examinations. … This book would be very useful for self-study by motivated students, or for preparation for candidacy exams. … Practicing physicists may find that the brief, accessible treatments of many topics will earn this book a place on a convenient bookshelf. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (M. C. Ogilvie, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (7), 2008)
"The book, written by two … ‘working physicists’, contains what the authors regard as being ‘basic knowledge’ in the standard courses of theoretical physics (yet) held at German Universities. … is primarily intended to cover the ‘Basic Theoretical Physics’ in a single and handy volume. … Hence, the book should be considered as being a kind of ‘compendium’ of … formulas used in theoretical physics where the formulas are filledin between with some remarks." (Jürgen Tolksdorf, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1134 (12), 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basic Theoretical Physics
Book Subtitle: A Concise Overview
Authors: Uwe Krey, Anthony Owen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36805-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-36804-5Published: 30 July 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07189-8Published: 06 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-36805-2Published: 14 August 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 452
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quantum Physics, Thermodynamics, Classical Mechanics, Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Engineering, general