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. Num Pages: 482 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 984. . 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: A Course in Theoretical Physics
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1118481348
ISBN 13: 9781118481349
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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P. John Shepherd, Emeritus Professor, retired, formerly at the Department of Physics, University of Exeter, UK. Thirty years of teaching undergraduate physics.

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