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  title info:
    title: Essays in physics
    sub title: thirty-two thoughtful essays on topics in undergraduate-level physics
  name:
    name part: Brooker, Geoffrey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
  abstract: "'Essays in Physics' gives accounts of 32 chosen topics. The level is that of a 3–4-year university course in Physics. The topics discussed are diverse but “mainstream”. Each essay aims to say something fresh that complements what the reader will find elsewhere. Just what “fresh” means inevitably depends somewhat on the subject matter. Some chapters give a 'different' slant on a familiar idea (e.g. electromagnetic energy, Lorentz transformation, photon emission). Some contain an analysis not available elsewhere (diffraction, feedback stability). Some correct material that is commonplace in many textbooks (much atomic physics). Some add insightful discussion to standard material (free energy, Brillouin zones). One in particular refines technique (perturbation theory). One brings order to confusion (-m dB). The aim in all cases is to encourage a fuller, and correct, understanding, and an enhanced intellectual acuity (critical faculty)"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Electromagnetic energy -- Electromagnetism: microscopic and macroscopic fields -- Vector theorems -- Longitudinal and transverse waves -- Transmission lines, the universe and everything -- Counting quantum states and field modes -- Four-vectors in relativity -- The Lorentz transformation -- Diffraction integrals and the Kirchhoff approximation -- Diffraction at a slit -- Symmetry in quantum mechanics -- Successive approximation; perturbation theory in quantum mechanics -- The hydrogen atom -- Identical particles and the helium atom -- Helium: energies for singlets and triplets -- LS coupling; Hund's rules -- Terms in LS coupling -- The Zeeman effect -- The Einstein A and B coefficients -- The Boltzmann distribution and molecular gases -- Free energy -- Energy of a magnetic body: -m · ơB or + B · ơm? -- The Debye theory of solid-state heat capacities -- Umklapp collisions and thermal conductivity -- Electrons and holes in semiconductors -- Heat capacity of electrons -- Electrons in a square lattice -- Negative feedback -- Stability of negative feedback -- Quantization of waves: the stretched string -- Spontaneous emission of radiation.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Geoffrey Brooker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physique
  subject:
    topic: physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Theory
  subject:
    topic: Relativity
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QC21.3 .B76 2021
  classification: 530
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      title: Essays in physics
    name:
      name part: Brooker, Geoffrey.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2021
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2021938596
    identifier: (OCoLC)1245656662
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 210514
    record change date: 20260318163331.3
    record identifier: in00005696165
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng