本书是Jeremy Bernstein等编著的Modern Physics(Pearson出版集团,2001年出版)的改编版。本书的原版本内容丰富,资料详实,涉及了物理学领域的*新成果和研究课题,在国外被许多外院校指定或**作为学生作为近代物理学的主要参考书,具有比较大的影响。本书根据国内教学实际,删去了原版**篇“狭义相对论”部分,保留了“量子力学”、“物理应用”和“物理前沿”的大部分内容。
本书详细阐述了量子力学发展的历程和取得的成就,涉及复杂原子与分子、统计物理、原子辐射与激光、导体、半导体与超导体、原子核等内容,以及基本粒子物理等一些前沿科研领域。 本书可供普通高等学校理科物理类专业作为双语教学教材使用,也可供其他专业和社会读者参考。

作者简介:

Jeremy Bernstein,Jeremy Bernstein has had a dual career in physics and writing. He was on the staff of the New Yorker from 1963 to 1993 and was a Professor of P

About the Authors
Preface i
1 A Review
1-1 Newton's Laws
1-2 Work, Energy, and the Conservation of Energy
1-3 Rotations and the Center of Mass
1-4 Elastic Media and Waves
1-5 Thermal Phenomena
1-6 The Atomic Structure of Matter
1-7 Electricity and Magnetism
1-8 Electromagnetic Waves and Light Conclusion
PART 1 Quantum Mechanics
2 Waves As Particles and Particles As Waves
2-1 The Nature of Photons
2-2 The Photoelectric Effect
2-3 The Compton Effect
2-4 Blackbody Radiation
2-5 Conceptual Consequences of Light As Particles
2-6 Matter Waves and Their Detection
2-7 Conceptual Consequences of Particles As Waves
Summary
Questions
Problems
3 Atoms and the Bohr Model
3-1 The Behavior and Structure of Atoms
3-2 The Bohr Atom
3-3 Application of Bohr's Ideas to Other Systems
3-4 The Correspondence Principle
Summary
Questions
Problems
4 The Schr6dinger Equation
4-1 Wave Functions and Probabilities
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PART 2 Applications
Appendix A Tables
Appendix B A Mathematical Tool Chest

Jeremy Bernstein,Jeremy Bernstein has had a dual career in physics and writing. He was on the staff of the New Yorker from 1963 to 1993 and was a Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology from 1968 until his retirement in 1993, when he became Professor emeritus. He has won several awards for his writing about science and mountain travel. He has also published widely in both technical and non-techni-cal journals. Some of his recent books are: An Introduction to Cosmology, Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics, A Theory for Everything, In the Himalayas, and Dawning of the Raj. He has held visiting appointments at The Rockefeller University,The University of Islamabad, The Ecole Polytechnique, CERN laboratory Princeton University, and Oxford. This photograph of Jeremy was taken on a bicycle trip in northern California. The thumb, which is on the grounds of the Clos Pegase art gallery and winery in Calistoga, was the work of the French artist Cesar Baldachini.Bernstein has bicycled in many countries including Bali and Crete. He makes his home in New York City and Aspen, Colorado.