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Modern Physics

Sixth  Edition©2012  Paul A Tipler; Ralph Llewellyn

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For the intermediate-level course, the Sixth Edition of this widely used text takes modern physics textbooks to a higher level.  With a flexible approach to accommodate the various ways of teaching the course (both one- and two-term tracks are easily covered), the authors recognize the audience and its need for updated coverage, mathematical rigor, and features to build and support student understanding.
 
Continued are the superb explanatory style, the up-to-date topical coverage, and the Web enhancements that gained earlier editions worldwide recognition. The Sixth Edition includes the discoveries that have further enlarged modern physics in the first decade of the new century, takes note of the evolution that is occurring in the teaching of physics in colleges and universities, and recognizes the growing role of modern physics in the biological sciences.

Table of Contents

PART 1 Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: The Foundations of Modern Physics
CHAPTER 1 Relativity
1-1 The Experimental Basis of Relativity
1-2 Einstein’s Postulates
1-3 The Lorenz Transformation
1-4 Time Dilation and Length Contraction
1-5 The Doppler Effect
1-6 The Twin Paradox and Other Surprises

CHAPTER 2 Relativity II
2-1 Relativistic Momentum
2-2 Relativistic Energy
2-3 Mass/Energy Conversion and Binding Energy
2-4 Invariant Mass
2-5 General Relativity
 
CHAPTER 3 Quantization of Charge, Light, and Energy
3-1 Quantization of Electric Charge
3-2 Blackbody Radiation
3-3 The Photoelectric Effect
3-4 X Rays and the Compton Effect
 
CHAPTER 4 The Nuclear Atom
4-1 Atomic Spectra
4-2 Rutherford’s Nuclear Model
4-3 The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom
4-4 X-Ray Spectra
4-5 The Franck-Hertz Experiment
 
CHAPTER 5 The Wavelike Properties of Particles
5-1 The de Broglie Hypothesis
5-2 Measurements of Particle Wavelengths
5-3 Wave Packets
5-4 The Probabilistic Interpretation of the Wave Function
5-5 The Uncertainty Principle
5-6 Some Consequences of the Uncertainty Principle
5-7 Wave-Particle Duality
 
CHAPTER 6 The Schrödinger Equation
6-1 The Schrödinger Equation in One Dimension
6-2 The Infinite Square Well
6-3 The Finite Square Well
6-4 Expectation Values and Operators
6-5 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator
6-6 Reflection and Transmission of Waves
 
CHAPTER 7 Atomic Physics
7-1 The Schrödinger Equation in Three Dimensions
7-2 Quantization of Angular Momentum and Energy in the Hydrogen Atom
7-3 The Hydrogen Atom Wave Functions
7-4 Electron Spin
7-5 Total Angular Momentum and the Spin-Orbit Effect
7-6 The Schrödinger Equation for Two (or More)Particles
7-7 Ground States of Atoms: The Periodic Table
7-8 Excited States and Spectra of Alkali Atoms
 
CHAPTER 8 Statistical Physics
8-1 Classical Statistics: A Review
A Derivation of the Equipartition Theorem
8-2 Quantum Statistics
8-3 The Bose-Einstein Condensation
8-4 The Photon Gas: An Application of Bose-Einstein Statistics
8-5 Properties of a Fermion Gas
 
PART 2 Applications of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
CHAPTER 9 Molecular Structure and Spectra
9-1 The Ionic Bond
9-2 The Covalent Bond
9-3 Other Bonding Mechanisms
9-4 Energy Levels and Spectra of Diatomic Molecules
9-5 Scattering, Absorption, and Stimulated Emission
9-6 Lasers and Masers
 
CHAPTER 10 Solid State Physics
10-1 The Structure of Solids
10-2 Classical Theory of Conduction
10-3 Free-Electron Gas in Metals
10-4 Quantum Theory of Conduction
10-5 Magnetism in Solids
10-6 Band Theory of Solids
10-7 Impurity Semiconductors
10-8 Semiconductor Junctions and Devices
10-9 Superconductivity
 
CHAPTER 11 Nuclear Physics
11-1 The Composition of the Nucleus
11-2 Ground-State Properties of Nuclei
11-3 Radioactivity
11-4 Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Decay
11-5 The Nuclear Force
11-6 The Shell Model
11-7 Nuclear Reactions
11-8 Fission and Fusion
11-9 Applications
 
CHAPTER 12 Particle Physics
12-1 Basic Concepts
12-2 Fundamental Interactions and the Force Carriers
12-3 Conservation Laws and Symmetries
12-4 The Standard Model
12-5 Beyond the Standard Model
 
CHAPTER 13 Astrophysics and Cosmology
13-1 The Sun
13-2 The Stars
13-3 The Evolution of Stars
13-4 Cataclysmic Events
13-5 Final States of Stars
13-6 Galaxies
13-7 Cosmology and Gravitation
13-8 Cosmology and the Evolution of the Universe
 
Appendix A Table of Atomic Masses
Appendix B Mathematical Aids
Appendix B1 Probability Integrals
Appendix B2 Binomial and Exponential Series
Appendix B3 Diagrams of Crystal Unit Cells
Appendix C Electron Configurations
Appendix D Fundamental Physical Constants
Appendix E Conversion Factors
Appendix F Nobel Laureates in Physics

Answers
Index

Paul A. Tipler

Paul Tipler was born in the small farming town of Antigo, Wisconsin, in 1933. He graduated from high school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where his father was superintendent of the public schools. He received his B.S. from Purdue University in 1955 and his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1962, where he studied the structure of nuclei. He taught for one year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut while writing his thesis, then moved to Oakland University in Michigan, where he was one of the original members of the physics department, playing a major role in developing the physics curriculum. During the next 20 years, he taught nearly all the physics courses and wrote the first and second editions of his widely used textbooks Modern Physics (1969, 1978) and Physics (1976, 1982). In 1982, he moved to Berkeley, California, where he now resides, and where he wrote College Physics (1987) and the third edition of Physics (1991). In addition to physics, his interests include music, hiking, and camping, and he is an accomplished jazz pianist and poker player.

Ralph Llewellyn