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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