A Course In Theoretical Physics P J Shepherdauth by P. J. Shepherd(auth.) 9781118481349, 9781118516911, 1118481348, 1118516915 instant download after payment.

This book is a comprehensive account of five extended modules covering the key branches of twentieth-century theoretical physics, taught by the author over a period of three decades to students on bachelor and master university degree courses in both physics and theoretical physics.

The modules cover nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, thermal and statistical physics, many-body theory, classical field theory (including special relativity and electromagnetism), and, finally, relativistic quantum mechanics and gauge theories of quark and lepton interactions, all presented in a single, self-contained volume.

In a number of universities, much of the material covered (for example, on Einstein's general theory of relativity, on the BCS theory of superconductivity, and on the Standard Model, including the theory underlying the prediction of the Higgs boson) is taught in postgraduate courses to beginning PhD students.

A distinctive feature of the book is that full, step-by-step mathematical proofs of all essential results are given, enabling a student who has completed a high-school mathematics course and the first year of a university physics degree course to understand and appreciate the derivations of very many of the most important results of twentieth-century theoretical physics.

Content:
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics (pages 1–21):
Chapter 2 Representation Theory (pages 23–38):
Chapter 3 Approximation Methods (pages 39–61):
Chapter 4 Scattering Theory (pages 63–95):
Chapter 5 Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (pages 97–123):
Chapter 6 Quantum States and Temperature (pages 125–139):
Chapter 7 Microstate Probabilities and Entropy (pages 141–149):
Chapter 8 The Ideal Monatomic Gas (pages 151–162):
Chapter 9 Applications of Classical Thermodynamics (pages 163–176):
Chapter 10 Thermodynamic Potentials and Derivatives (pages 177–182):
Chapter 11 Matter Transfer and Phase Diagrams (pages 183–189):
Chapter 12 Fermi–Dirac and Bose–Einstein Statistics (pages 191–198):
Chapter 13 Quantum Mechanics and Low?Temperature Thermodynamics of Many?Particle Systems (pages 199–234):
Chapter 14 Second Quantization (pages 235–250):
Chapter 15 Gas of Interacting Electrons (pages 251–260):
Chapter 16 Superconductivity (pages 261–286):
Chapter 17 The Classical Theory of Fields (pages 287–360):
Chapter 18 General Relativity (pages 361–384):
Chapter 19 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (pages 385–425):
Chapter 20 Gauge Theories of Quark and Lepton Interactions (pages 427–449):