"Version: 20180201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Classical mechanics and electromagnetism -- 1.1. Newtonian mechanics -- 1.2. Light and electromagnetism -- 1.3. Properties of Newtonian point particle solutions2. The origins of quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Blackbody radiation and Planck's …
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Classical mechanics and electromagnetism -- 1.1. Newtonian mechanics -- 1.2. Light and electromagnetism -- 1.3. Newtonian point particle solutions2. The origins of quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Blackbody radiation and Planck's constant -- 2.2. Light and photons -- 2.3. Electron diffraction and the de Broglie wavelength -- …
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- 1. Basic field theory -- Newtonian mechanics and Galilean relativity -- The action principle -- The stretched string as a field theory -- The wave equation -- Energy and momentum in field t…
"Version: 20220401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Geometry and physics -- 1.1. Manifolds -- 1.2. Coordinate systems -- 1.3. The Jacobian -- 1.4. Contravariant and covariant quantities -- 1.5. The summation convention -- 1.6. Vectors and direction vectors -- 1.7. Vector addition and the scalar product -- 1.8. The metric tensor and distance in manifolds -- 1.9. The metr…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Functionals and classical mechanics -- 1.2. The operator formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Operator identities -- 1.4. Grassmann variables -- 1.5. Gaussian integrals -- 1.6. Poisson resummation2. The quantum mechanical path integral -- 2.1. The infinitesimal transition element -- 2.2. The b…