Principles Of Modern Physics

principles of modern physics principles of modelrn physics NEIL ASHBY STANLEY C. MILLER University of Colorado HOLDEN-DAY, INC. San Francisco Cambridge London Amsterdam o Copyright 1970 by Holden-Day, 500 Sansome Inc., Street San Francisco, California All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission in writing from the publisher. library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-l 13182 Manufactured in the United States of America HOLDEN-DAY SERIES IN PHYSICS McAllister Hull and David S. Saxon, Editors preface This book is intended as a general introduction to modern physics for science and tull year’s engineering students. It is written at a level which presurnes a prior course in integral classical physics, and a knowledge of elementary differential and quantum me- calculus. The material discussed here includes probability, chanics, atomic physics, statistical mechanics, particles. Some of these top&, such as relativity, nuclear physics and elementary statistical mechanics and probability, are ordinarily not included in textbooks at this level. However, we have felt that for proper understanding of many topics in modern physics--such as chanics and its applications--this material is essential. It is quaIlturn