This revised edition of a foundational textbook offers a comprehensive overview of theoretical physics through variational principles. It covers field theory, motion in curved spaces, and gravitational optics, with new chapters on classical mechanics, geometrical optics, and gravitational waves. It includes exercises and solutions, enhancing the learning experience.
How to Apply Quantum Theory to Modern Physics
This textbook offers detailed solutions to problems in quantum theory, covering elementary particles, quantum entanglement, and complex systems. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it enhances skills for research applications. The new edition includes topics like neutrino oscillations and quantum correlations.
This updated textbook offers a strong introduction to quantum mechanics and explores modern theoretical physics. It covers diverse topics like nanotechnology and cosmology, with new chapters on astrophysics and quantum information. Each chapter includes exercises and problems, blending traditional and modern quantum mechanics concepts.
Gives a fresh and modern approach to the field. It is a textbook on the principles of the theory, its mathematical framework and its first applications. It constantly refers to modern and practical developments, tunneling microscopy, quantum information, Bell inequalities, quantum cryptography, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum astrophysics. The book also contains 92 exercises with their solutions.