PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS FROM QUANTUM FIELD THEORY TO CLASSICAL MECHANICS

PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS FROM QUANTUM FIELD THEORY TO CLASSICAL MECHANICS (Tsinghua Report and Review in Physics) The book covers all the disciplines of fundamental physics, including quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, general relativity, electromagnetic field, and classical mechanics. Instead of the traditional pedagogic way, the subjects and formalisms are arranged in a logical-sequential way, i.e. all the formulas are derived from the formulas before them. The formalisms are also kept self-contained, i.e. the derivations of all the physical formulas which appear in this book can be found in the same book. Most of the required mathematical tools are also given in the appendices. Although this book covers all the disciplines of fundamental physics, the book is compact and has only about 400 pages because the contents are concise and can be treated as an integrated entity. In this book, the main emphasis is the basic formalisms of physics. The topics on applications and approximation methods are kept to a minimum and are selected based on their generality and importance. Still it was not easy to do it when some important topics had to be omitted. Since it is impossible to provide an exhaustive bibliography, I list only the related textbooks and monographs that I am familiar with. I apologize to the authors whose books have not been included unintentionally.