
Theory of Fundamental Processes
Richard Feynman(Author)
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 26. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-201-36077-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-36077-6 (9780201360776)
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Person
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 -- 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 ?-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 ? Decay -- Properties of the ?-Decay Coupling -- Summary of the Course