Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers

MODERN PHYSICS FOR SCIENTIST AND ENGINEERS, Second Edition incorporates a contemporary and comprehensive approach to physics with a strong emphasis on applications. The author's approach incorporates a flexible organization, numerous examples and problems (over 700), and brings the study of modern physics alive by alluding to many current topics in physics, for example, high temperature superconductors, neutrino mass, age of the universe, gamma ray bursts, holography, and nuclear fusion.

1 One Hundred Years Ago

1

(19)

2 Special Theory of Relativity

20

(60)

3 The Experimental Basis of Quantum Theory

80

(38)

4 Structure of the Atom

118

(33)

5 Wave Properties of Matter

151

(34)

6 The Quantum Theory

185

(37)

7 The Hydrogen Atom

222

(27)

8 Many-Electron Atoms

249

(23)

9 Statistical Physics

272

(38)

10 Molecules and Solids

310

(51)

11 Semiconductor Theory and Devices

361

(31)

12 The Atomic Nucleus

392

(39)

13 Nuclear Interactions and Applications

431

(43)

14 Elementary Particles

474

(32)

15 General Relativity

506

(17)

16 Cosmology--The Beginning and the End

523

Appendices

A-1

(42)

Answers to Selected Problems

A-43

Index

1-1

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