Angular Momentum
3rd Edition
Published on 10. February 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
182 pages
978-0-19-851759-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book introduces the quantum theory of angular momentum to students who are unfamiliar with it and develops it to a stage useful for research.
The first part contains the basic theory of rotations and angular momentum. As the book aims to emphasize applications, mathematical details are avoided and difficult theorems stated without proof. The second part contains examples of applications to a wide range of physical phenomena and presents a collection of results helpful in solving problems.
The first part contains the basic theory of rotations and angular momentum. As the book aims to emphasize applications, mathematical details are avoided and difficult theorems stated without proof. The second part contains examples of applications to a wide range of physical phenomena and presents a collection of results helpful in solving problems.
Reviews / Votes
the text is clearly written and well comprehensible. * Institute of Physics Publishing Journal, October 1994 * It is good to see this classic reprinted as a third edition. My own copy of the second edition has been used so regularly as a reference for formulae over more than twenty-five years that it has lost its covers and some pages have become detached ... a very thorough book which has stood the test of time and will now be available to a further generation of postgraduate students and researchers. * Prof. J P Elliot (University of Sussex), Contemporary Physics, 1995, Vol 36, No 1 *More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
numerous figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
242 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-851759-7 (9780198517597)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. Symmetry in physical laws ; 2. Representations of the rotation group ; 3. Coupling angular momentum vectors, and transformation theory ; 4. Tensors and tensor operators ; 5. Matrix elements of tensor operators ; 6. Applications to physical systems ; 7. Graphical methods in angular momentum ; Appendix i. 3-j and Clebsch-Gordan coefficients ; ii. 6-j symbols, Racah coefficients ; iii. 9-j Symbols or X-coefficients ; iv. Spherical harmonics ; v. Rotation matrix elements ; vi. Tensors and their matrix elements ; References and author index ; vii. Asymptotic expressions for large angular momenta and classical limits ; Subject index