Quantum Electrodynamics

This text material constitutes notes on the third of a three-semester course in quantum mechanics given at the California Institute of Technology in 1953, presenting the main results and calculational procedures of quantum electrodynamics.

List of contents

Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Quantum Electrodynamics -- Interaction of Light with Matter–Quantum Electrodynamics -- Résumé of the Principles and Results of Special Relativity -- Relativistic Wave Equation -- Solution of the Dirac Equation for a Free Particle -- Potential Problems in Quantum Electrodynamics -- Relativistic Treatment of the Interaction of Particles with Light -- Interaction of Several Electrons -- Discussion and Interpretation of Various “Correction” Terms -- Pauli Principle and the Dirac Equation -- The Theory of Positrons -- Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics -- Appendix

About the author

Feynman, Richard P.

Product details

• Authors: Richard P. Feynman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367320089
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32008-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Frontiers in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Physics / General, Physics