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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 539.076
EAN num: 9780070248304
ISBN number: 0070248303
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Page Count: 338
Printing Date: July 27, 1999
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill
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Master modern physics with Schaum's--the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams! Students love Schaum's Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides. If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you brush up before tests, find answers fast, study quickly and more effectively, and get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks. Schaum's Outlines give you the information your teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct format--without overwhelming you with unnecessary details. You get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's let you study at your own pace and remind you of all the important facts you need to remember--fast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams. Inside, you will find: 486 solved problems, including step-by-step solutions; Hundreds of additional practice problems, with answers supplied; Clear explanations of all major topics covered in modern physics courses; New sections on quarks and superconductivity. If you want top grades and thorough understanding of modern physics, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! Chapters include: Galilean Transformations / Postulates of Einstein / Lorentz Coordinate Transformations / Relativistic Length Measurements / Relativistic Time Measurements / Relativistic Space-Time Measurements / Relativistic Velocity Transformations / Mass, Energy, and Momentum in Relativity / The Relativistic Doppler Effect / Electromagnetic Radiation--Photons / Matter Waves / The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle / The Bohr Atom / Electron Orbital Motion and the Zeeman Effect / Electron Spin / Many Electron Atoms / The Pauli Exclusion Principle / Many-Electron Atoms and the Periodic Table / X-Rays / Properties of Nuclei / Nuclear Models / Nuclear Decays / Nuclear Reactions / Fission and Fusion / Fundamental Forces in Nature--Mediating Field Particles / Particle Names and Properties / Conservation Laws / Band Theory/ The Eight-Fold Way / Quarks / Construction of Hadrons from the Quarks / Leptons / Molecular Bonding / Excitations of Diatomic Molecules / Kinetic Theory / Distribution Functions / Classical Statistics: The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution / Quantum Statistics / The Classical Metal / Fermi Electron Gas / Specific Heats of Crystalline Solids / Semiconductors / Superconductivity.
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As a college student taking Modern Physics, I found this book to be very helpful with my homework. Many of the subjects covered in my course were found to also be in the Schaum's Outline of Modern Physics. What it does severely lack in is explanation. For me, I skipped using it to learn anything, and just focused on following the example problems step-by-step (with different numbers, of course!) For the average student looking for a little help, I'd definitely suggest this book!
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Unlike other reviewers, I found that this book hits all of the main points that you are likely to run across in an undergraduate course on Modern Physics. I particularly liked the short explanations on the various subtopics, the numerous and clear diagrams, as well as the helpful examples.
The other reviewers are correct in that this book takes a different approach from most textbooks on Modern Physics, but I feel that this is most helpful to engineering students. This is because the modern physics textbooks I have examined tend to be abstract and, quite frankly, geared towards and - of course - written by physicists. Engineers need a more practical and visual problem-oriented viewpoint to understand the subject matter than is provided in such books. The content of this outline does tend to jump around a great deal, and you may need to search carefully for the subject matter you are needing help with, but most of it should be in this outline somewhere. The book does come up a little short on the quantum end of things, and if you need specific help with that subject I recommend the "Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics", which is also quite helpful.
If you are a student of pure physics, you might not find this outline as helpful as the engineering students probably will.
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The delivery was outstanding, and the quality of the book was excellent.
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This didn't fit in with the book we were using: "Modern Physics" by Tipler and Llewellyn. This book completely neglected much of the quantum portion. Be sure to buy that book also. Kind of elementary.
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Much like the rest of the Outline series, this book is great. It covers pretty much all the important topics in pretty good detail. It starts off fairly gently but the problems (worked and otherwise) are good and challenging (for me at least). This book would be great companion to any undergraduate modern physics course.
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