Angular Momentum

Zusatztext It is good to see this classic reprinted as a third edition. My own copy of the second edition has been used so regularly as a reference for formulae over more than twenty-five years that it has lost its covers and some pages have become detached ... a very thorough book which has stood the test of time and will now be available to a further generation of postgraduate students and researchers. Klappentext This book introduces the quantum theory of angular momentum to students who are unfamiliar with it and develops it to a stage useful for research. Zusammenfassung This book introduces the quantum theory of angular momentum to students who are unfamiliar with it and develops it to a stage useful for research. 1. Symmetry in physical laws; 2. Representations of the rotation group; 3. Coupling angular momentum vectors, and transformation theory; 4. Tensors and tensor operators; 5. Matrix elements of tensor operators; 6. Applications to physical systems; 7. Graphical methods in angular momentum; Appendix i. 3-j and Clebsch-Gordan coefficients; ii. 6-j symbols, Racah coefficients; iii. 9-j Symbols or X-coefficients; iv. Spherical harmonics; v. Rotation matrix elements; vi. Tensors and their matrix elements; References and author index; vii. Asymptotic expressions for large angular momenta and classical limits; Subject index

Product details

• Authors: D. M. Brink, D. M. (Formerly Reader in Physics Brink, D.m. Satchler Brink, G. R. Satchler, Satchler G. R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.02.1994
• EAN: 9780198517597
• ISBN: 978-0-19-851759-7
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)