This is a comprehensive text on electrodynamics with detailed explanations and calculations. One hundred worked examples have been incorporated, making this book also suitable for self-instruction. Apart from all traditional topics of the Maxwell's theory, this book includes the special theory of relativity and the Lagrangian formalism and applications; the text also contains introductions to quantum effects related to electrodynamics, such as the Aharonov-Bohm and the Casimir effects. Numerous modern applications in diverse directions are treated in the examples.

This is a comprehensive text on electrodynamics with detailed explanations and calculations. One hundred worked examples have been incorporated, making this book also suitable for self-instruction. Apart from all traditional topics of the Maxwell's theory, this book includes the special theory of relativity and the Lagrangian formalism and applications; the text also contains introductions to quantum effects related to electrodynamics, such as the Aharonov-Bohm and the Casimir effects. Numerous modern applications in diverse directions are treated in the examples.

After a consideration of basic quantum mechanics, this introduction aims at a side by side treatment of fundamental applications of the Schr?dinger equation on the one hand and the applications of the path integral on the other. Different from traditional texts and using a systematic perturbation method, the solution of Schr?dinger equations includes also those with anharmonic oscillator potentials, periodic potentials, screened Coulomb potentials and a typical singular potential, as well as the investigation of the large order behavior of the perturbation series. On the path integral side,...

After a consideration of basic quantum mechanics, this introduction aims at a side by side treatment of fundamental applications of the Schr?dinger equation on the one hand and the applications of the path integral on the other. Different from traditional texts and using a systematic perturbation method, the solution of Schr?dinger equations includes also those with anharmonic oscillator potentials, periodic potentials, screened Coulomb potentials and a typical singular potential, as well as the investigation of the large order behavior of the perturbation series. On the path integral side,...

Features a pedagogical tour through mechanics from Newton to Einstein with detailed explanations and a number of worked examples. This book covers relativity, along with its relation to concepts of basic mechanics, such as inertia, escape velocity, Newton's potential, Kepler motion and curvature.

Features a pedagogical tour through mechanics from Newton to Einstein with detailed explanations and a number of worked examples. This book covers relativity, along with its relation to concepts of basic mechanics, such as inertia, escape velocity, Newton's potential, Kepler motion and curvature.

Electrodynamics is a basic area of physics, encompassing also classical and quantum physics, optics, relativity and field theory, and is of universal practical importance. This text aims at a balance between basic theory and practical applications, and includes introductions to specific quantum mechanical effects.

Statistics links microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, and requires for this reason a large number of microscopic elements like atoms. The results are values of maximum probability or of averaging. This introduction to statistical physics concentrates on the basic principles, and attempts to explain these in simple terms supplemented by numerous examples. These basic principles include the difference between classical and quantum statistics, a priori probabilities as related to degeneracies, the vital aspect of indistinguishability as compared with distinguishability in classical physics,...