Intro
Preface
Fundamental Constants
Contents
1 Special Theory of Relativity
1.1 INERTIAL FRAMES OF REFERENCE
1.2 GALILEAN TRANSFORMATIONS
1.3 VELOCITY OF LIGHT
1.4 POSTULATES OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
1.5 LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS
1.6 SIMULTANEITY AND TIME DILATION
1.7 LENGTH CONTRACTION
1.8 TRANSFORMATION OF VELOCITIES
1.9 LORENTZ FOUR-VECTORS
1.10. ENERGY-MOMENTUM FOUR-VECTOR AND RELATIVISTIC DYNAMICS
1.11 ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTION
1.12 ZERO-MASS PARTICLES AND DOPPLER SHIFT
1.13 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS
2 Introduction to Quantum Ideas

2.1 BLACK-BODY RADIATION
2.2 PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
2.3 COMPTON EFFECT
2.4 WAVE NATURE OF PARTICLES
2.5 ATOMIC SPECTRA
2.6 NUCLEAR MODEL OF THE ATOM
2.7 BOHR MODEL
2.8 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS
3 Elements of Quantum Theory
3.1 A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
3.2 THE WAVE FUNCTION
3.3 POSTULATES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
3.4 SOME PROPERTIES OF OBSERVABLES AND WAVE FUNCTIONS
3.5 FREE PARTICLE
3.6 WAVE PACKET AND THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
3.7 STEP POTENTIAL
3.8 PARTICLE IN A BOX
3.9 SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR
3.10 SMALL PERTURBATIONS
3.11 ANGULAR MOMENTUM

3.12 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS
4 The One-Electron Atom
4.1 SOLUTIONS OF THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION
4.2 ELECTRON SPIN
4.3 TOTAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM
4.4 FINE STRUCTURE OF ONE-ELECTRON ATOMIC SPECTRA
4.5 HYPERFINE STRUCTURE
4.6 EXAMPLES OF ONE-ELECTRON ATOMS
4.7 SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION FOR SPIN 1/2 PARTICLES
4.8 DIRAC EQUATION
4.9 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS
5 Atoms and Molecules
5.1 EXCHANGE SYMMETRY OF WAVE FUNCTIONS
5.2 SHELLS AND SUBSHELLS IN ATOMS
5.3 PERIODIC TABLE
5.4 ATOMIC SPECTRA
5.5 X-RAY SPECTRA
5.6 MOLECULAR BONDING
5.7 MOLECULAR SPECTRA
5.8 EXAMPLES

PROBLEMS
6 Interaction with External Fields
6.1 THE HAMILTONIAN
6.2 ATOMS IN A MAGNETIC FIELD
6.3 INTERACTION WITH RADIATION
6.4 SPONTANEOUS TRANSITIONS
6.5 LASERS AND MASERS
6.6 APPLICATIONS OF LASERS
6.7 SOME EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
6.8 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS
7 Quantum Statistics
7.1 DISTINGUISHABLE ARRANGEMENTS
7.2 STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
7.3 APPLICATIONS OF MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION
7.4. APPLICATIONS OF BOSE-EINSTEIN DISTRIBUTION
7.5 APPLICATIONS OF FERMI-DIRAC DISTRIBUTION
7.6 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
7.7 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS

8 Solid State Physics
8.1 BINDING FORCES IN SOLIDS
8.2 CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
8.3 BAND THEORY OF SOLIDS
8.4 SEMICONDUCTORS
8.5 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
8.6 MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
8.7 DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
8.8 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS
9 The Nucleus
9.1 PROPERTIES OF THE NUCLEUS
9.2 NUCLEAR FORCES
9.3 MODELS OF THE NUCLEUS
9.4 WEIZSACKER'S MASS FORMULA
9.5 NUCLEAR STABILITY
9.6 NUCLEAR REACTIONS
9.7 FISSION REACTORS
9.8 THERMONUCLEAR FUSION
9.9 EXAMPLES
PROBLEMS
10 Elementary Particles
10.1 ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
10.2 STRONG INTERACTION