A Guide to Physics Problems. Part 2. Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics

336 APPENDIXES Some Astronomical Data Mass of the Sun Radius of the Sun Average Distance between the Earth and the Sun Average R ...

APPENDIXES Appendix 2: 337 Conversion Table from Rationalized MKSA to Gaussian Units Appendix 3: Vector Identities ...

338 APPENDIXES Vector Formulas in Spherical and Cylindrical Coordinates Spherical Coordinates Transformation of Coordinates Tran ...

APPENDIXES 339 Transformation of the Coordinates of a Vector Divergence Curl Gradient ...

340 APPENDIXES Laplacian Cylindrical Coordinates Transformation of Coordinates Transformation of Differentials Square of the Ele ...

APPENDIXES 341 Divergence Curl Gradient Laplacian Appendix 4: Legendre Polynomials ...

342 APPENDIXES Rodrigues’ Formula Spherical Harmonics The first three eigenfunctions of the harmonic oscillator in one dimension ...

APPENDIXES 343 where is the oscillator frequency. Appendix 6: Angular Momentum and Spin The (Pauli) matrices are while the vecto ...

344 APPENDIXES Appendix 7: Variational Calculations The general procedure forsolvingvariationalproblems in one dimension is to f ...

APPENDIXES 345 Appendix 9: Conversion Table for Pressure Units Appendix 10: Useful Constants Resistivity of copper (T = 300 K) L ...

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348 Bibliography Huang, K., Statistical Mechanics, 2nd ed., New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1987 Jeans, J., An Introduction ...

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