Atoms, Molecules and Photons - An Introduction to Atomic-, Molecular- and Quantum-Physics

This introduction to Atomic and Molecular Physics explains how our present model of atoms and molecules has been developed during the last two centuries by many experimental discoveries and from the theoretical side by the introduction of quantum physics to the adequate description of micro-particles. It illustrates the wave model of particles by many examples and shows the limits of classical description. The interaction of electromagnetic radiation with atoms and molecules and its potential for spectroscopy is outlined in more detail and in particular lasers as modern spectroscopic tools are discussed more thoroughly. Many examples and problems with solutions should induce the reader to an intense active cooperation.

List of contents

The Concept of the Atom.- Development of Quantum Physics.- Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics.- The Hydrogen Atom.- Atoms with More Than One Electron.- Emission and Absorption of Electromagnetic Radiation by Atoms.- Lasers.- Diatomic Molecules.- Polyatomic Molecules.- Experimental Techniques in Atomic and Molecular Physics.- Modern Developments in Atomic and Molecular Physics.

About the author

Wolfgang Demtröder, Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany. Most renowned expert in spectroscopy.

Product details

• Authors: Wolfgang Demtröder
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9783642102974
• ISBN: 978-3-642-10297-4
• No. of pages: 589
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 287 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1554 g
• Illustrations: w. 500 col. figs.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics; Graduate Texts in Physics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics