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Concepts of Modern Physics Sixth Edition Arthur Beiser Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, WI New York San Francisco St. ...
CONCEPTS OF MODERN PHYSICS, SIXTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Ave ...
Contents iii Preface xii CHAPTER 1 Relativity 1 1.1 Special Relativity 2 All motion is relative; the speed of light in free spac ...
CHAPTER 2 Particle Properties of Waves 52 2.1 Electromagnetic Waves 53 Coupled electric and magnetic oscillations that move with ...
3.6 Particle in a Box 106 Why the energy of a trapped particle is quantized 3.7 Uncertainty Principle I 108 We cannot know the f ...
5.2 The Wave Equation 163 It can have a variety of solutions, including complex ones 5.3 Schrödinger’s Equation: Time-Dependent ...
6.7 Electron Probability Density 212 No definite orbits 6.8 Radiative Transitions 218 What happens when an electron goes from on ...
8.2 Electron Sharing 269 The mechanism of the covalent bond 8.3 The H 2 Molecular Ion 270 Bonding requires a symmetric wave fun ...
9.10 Electron-Energy Distribution 325 Why the electrons in a metal do not contribute to its specific heat except at very high an ...
11.2 Some Nuclear Properties 392 Small in size, a nucleus may have angular momentum and a magnetic moment 11.3 Stable Nuclei 396 ...
12.11 Nuclear Fusion in Stars 460 How the sun and stars get their energy 12.12 Fusion Reactors 463 The energy source of the futu ...
M odern physics began in 1900 with Max Planck’s discovery of the role of energy quantization in blackbody radiation, a revolutio ...
who wish to go further into this subject; those by Abraham Pais and by Emilio Segré, themselves distinguished physicists, are es ...
Concepts of Modern Physics Sixth Edition bei48482_FM 1/11/02 2:54 PM Page xiv ...
1 1.1 SPECIAL RELATIVITY All motion is relative; the speed of light in free space is the same for all observers 1.2 TIME DILATIO ...
2 Chapter One I n 1905 a young physicist of twenty-six named Albert Einstein showed how meas- urements of time and space are aff ...
Relativity 3 problems that involve inertial frames of reference. General relativity,published by Einstein a decade later, descri ...
4 Chapter One Figure 1.2The Michelson-Morley experiment. Mirror A Glass plate Path A Path B Mirror^ B Viewing screen Half-silver ...
Relativity 5 There is only one way to account for these results without violating the principle of relativity. It must be true t ...
6 Chapter One Figure 1.4 shows the laboratory clock in operation. The time interval between ticks is the proper time t 0 and the ...
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