This title provides the basis for advanced bachelor/beginning master courses in theoretical physics. It covers almost all theoretical physics topics that would typically be taught in an advanced bachelor program or to prepare for a masters in theoretical physics with quantum mechanics, statistical physics, and special relativity sections that are part of standard physics curricula. It includes, with full derivations of all expressions, accounts of Nobel-prize-winning work such as the Weinberg-Salam theory of the electroweak interaction and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of...

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,...