Introduction to modern physics
/ F.K. Richtmyer
- 6th ed.
- New Dehli : Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, 2006
- xvi, 767 p.
Includes appendices and index
1. The ileritage of modern physics 2. Introduction to relativity 3. Relativity and four-vectors 4. Atoms and molecules 5. The origin of the quantum theory 6. Electron and the photoelectric effect 7. X-rays 8. Radioactivity and the nuclear atom 9. Spectural lines and the Bohr model 10. Particles and interactions 11. Wave properties of particles 12. Wave mechanics 1—free states 13. Wave mechanics 2—bound states 14. Wave mechanics 3—the hydrogen atom 15. Atomic structure 16. X-ray spectra 17. Atomic spectra 18. Atoms in a magnetic field 19. Molecules and molecular spectra 20. Introduction to quantum statistics 21. Solids—insulators and metals 22. The bond model for metals 23. Semiconductors 24. Interactions of higher-energy particles with matter 25. The nucleus