Richard Feynman

Theory of Fundamental Processes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the basic ideas of quantum mechanics, treating the concept of amplitude and discusses relativity and the idea of anti-particles and explains quantum electrodynamics. It provides experienced researchers with an invaluable introduction to fundamental processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9780201360776
• ISBN-10: 0201360772
• Artikelnr.: 21744636

Autorenporträt

Richard Feynman

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Foreword
Preface
Review of the Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Spin and Statistics
Rotations and Angular Momentum
Rules of Composition of Angular Momentum
Relativity
Electromagnetic and Fermi Couplings
Fermi Couplings and the Failure of Parity
Pion
Nucleon Coupling
Strange Particles
Some Consequences of Strangeness
Strong Coupling Schemes
Strange Particles
The Question of a Universal Coupling Coefficient
Rules of Strangeness Changing Decays: Experiments
Fundamental Laws of Electromagnetic and ß
Decay Coupling
Density of Final States
The Propagator for Scalar Particles
The Propagator in Configuration Space
Particles of Spin
Virtual and Real Photons
Problems
Spin
1/2 Particles
Extension of Finite Mass
Properties of the Four
Component Spinor
Particles of Spin
Direct Pair Production by Muons
Higher
Order Processes
Self
Energy of the Electron
Quantum Electrodynamics
Meson Theory
Theory of ß Decay
Properties of the ß
Decay Coupling
Summary of the Course