Electromagnetic processes

This book provides an understanding of the theoretical foundations for the calculation of electromagnetic processes. Photon production processes are particularly important in astrophysics, since almost all of our knowledge of distant astronomical objects comes from the detection of radiation from th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Gould, Robert J. 1935-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
SeriesPrinceton series in astrophysics.
Subjects
Electromagnetic theory.
Quantum electrodynamics.
Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.
Scattering (Physics)
elektronické knihy
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780691215846
0691215847
9780691124438 (acid-free paper)
0691124434 (acid-free paper)
9780691124445 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0691124442 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 271 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Some fundamental principles
  • Units and characteristic lengths, times, energies, etc.
  • Relativistic covariance and relativistic invariants
  • Kinematic effects
  • Binary collision rates
  • Phase-space factors
  • Classical electrodynamics
  • Retarded potentials
  • Multipole expansion of the radiation field
  • Fourier spectra
  • Fields of a charge in relativistic motion
  • Radiation from a relativistic charge
  • Radiation reaction
  • Soft-photon emission
  • Weizsäcker-Williams method
  • Absorption and stimulated emission
  • Quantum electrodynamics
  • Brief historical sketch
  • Relationship with classical electrodynamics
  • Non-relativistic formulation
  • Relativistic theory
  • Soft-photon emission
  • Special features of electromagnetic processes
  • Elastic scattering of charged particles
  • Classical Coulomb scattering
  • Non-relativistic born approximation and exact treatment
  • Scattering of relativistic particles of zero spin
  • Scattering of relativistic spin-1/2 particles
  • Compton scattering
  • Classical limit
  • Quantum-mechanical derivation : non-relativistic limit
  • Scattering by a magnetic moment
  • Relativistic spin-0 case
  • Relativistic spin-1/2 problem : Klein-Nishina formula
  • Relationship to pair annihilation and production
  • Double Compton scattering
  • Bremsstrahlung
  • Classical limit
  • Non-relativistic born limit
  • Electron-electron Bremsstrahlung, non-relativistic
  • Intermediate energies
  • Relativistic Coulomb Bremsstrahlung
  • Electron-atom Bremsstrahlung.

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