Quantum Electrodynamics
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-201-36075-2 (ISBN)
Description
This classic work presents the main results and calculational procedures of quantum electrodynamics in a simple and straightforward way. Designed for the student of experimental physics who does not intend to take more advanced graduate courses in theoretical physics, the material consists of notes on the third of a three-semester course given at the California Institute of Technology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
315 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-36075-2 (9780201360752)
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Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.
Content
Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Quantum Electrodynamics -- Interaction of Light with Matter-Quantum Electrodynamics -- Resume of the Principles and Results of Special Relativity -- Relativistic Wave Equation -- Solution of the Dirac Equation for a Free Particle -- Potential Problems in Quantum Electrodynamics -- Relativistic Treatment of the Interaction of Particles with Light -- Interaction of Several Electrons -- Discussion and Interpretation of Various "Correction" Terms -- Pauli Principle and the Dirac Equation -- The Theory of Positrons -- Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics -- Appendix