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Arthur Beiser: Concepts of Modern Physics

Published 1963, 2nd Edition 1973, McGraw-Hill.

Subject Matter

• Physics

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

PART ONE: BASIC CONCEPTS

Chapter 1 Special Relativity

Chapter 2 Particle Properties of Waves

Chapter 3 Wave Properties of Particles

PART TWO: THE ATOM

Chapter 4 Atomic Structure

Chapter 5 Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 6 Quantum Theory of the Hydrogen Atom

Chapter 7 Many-electron Atoms

PART THREE: PROPERTIES OF MATTER

Chapter 8 The Physics of Molecules

Chapter 9 Statistical Mechanics

Chapter 10 The Solid State

PART FOUR: THE NUCLEUS

Chapter 11 The Atomic Nucleus

Chapter 12 Nuclear Transformations

Chapter 13 Elementary Particles

Answers to Odd-numbered Problems

Index