作者简介 Mark Swanson, received his PhD in physics from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1976. After a post-doctoral appointment at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, he joined the physics department at the University of Connecticut in 1979. His research focused on the relationship between canonical quantization techniques and the functional approach of path integrals, which led to authoring the monograph Path Integrals and Quantum Processes . In addition, he served in administrative capacity as the Stamford Campus director and an associate dean. He retired in 2014 and is now emeritus professor of physics. He lives in Connecticut with his wife where he continues to work on physics, programming computers, and amusing himself with the guitar.
目录 Preface Acknowledgements Author biography 1 Basic field theory Newtonian mechanics and Galilean relativity The action principle The stretched string as a field theory The wave equation Energy and momentum in field theories Point sources and Greens functions in field theory Further reading 2 Newtonian fluid dynamics Fluid flow from Newtonian physics Basic applications of the Navier-Stokes equation Viscosity The action formulation of perfect fluids Fluctuations around solutions and stability Further reading 3 Special relativity, field theory and symmetry Special relativity Basic effects of special relativity Relativistic mechanics Relativistic tensor fields and quadratic actions Relativistic spinor fields and quadratic actions Symmetry in relativistic field theory Further reading 4 Classical electrodynamics Maxwells equations The gauge field and gauge conditions The gauge field action and minimal coupling The stress-energy tensor and electrodynamic force and energy Electromagnetic waves and spin Greens functions and electromagnetic radiation The gauge field as a differential form Further reading 5 General relativity and gravitation The metric tensor and the principle of equivalence The affine connection and the covariant derivative The curvature tensor Variational techniques in general relativity Einsteins equation Vacuum solutions to Einsteins equation Basic cosmology Further reading 6 Yang-Mills fields and connections Unitary symmetry and Yang-Mills fields The Yang-Mills stress-energy tensor and force equation Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry Aspects of classical solutions for Yang-Mills fields Yang-Mills fields, gravitation, forms and connections Yang-Mills fields and Confinement Further reading Appendix: Mathematics for field theory
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