Quantum electrodynamics; a lecture note and reprint volume. Notes corr. by E.R. Huggins [and] H.T. Yura

New York: W.A. Benjamin, 1962. Ex-Library/2nd Prtg. Hardcover. Good/None. Frontiers in physics; a lecture note and reprint series Black cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine; a tiny rubbed spot at spine heel. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned, and side and bottom page edges stamped. Rear pastedown scarred where bookplate removed. Rear end paper has remnants of card envelope. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Second printing, with corrections, October 1962. See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated with formulas and diagrams. 'The text material herein constitutes notes on the third of a three-semester course in quantum mechanics given at the California Institute of Technology in 1953. Actually, some questions involving the interaction of light and matter were discussed during the preceding semester. These are also included, as the first six lectures. The relativistic theory begins the seventh lecture. The aim was to present the main results and calculational procedures of quantum electrodynamics in as simple and straightforward a way as possible. Many of the students working for degrees in experimental physics did not intend to take more advanced graduate courses in theoretical physics. The course was designed with their needs in mind. It was hoped that they would learn how one obtains the various cross sections for photon processes which are so important in the design of high-energy experiments, such as with the synchrotron at Cal Tech. For this reason little attention is given to many aspects of quantum electrodynamics which would be of use for theoretical physicists tackling the more complicated problems of the interaction of pions and nucleons. That is, the relations among the many different formulations of quantum electrodynamics, including operator representations of fields, explicit discussion of properties of the S matric, etc., are not included. ... The attempt to teach elementary quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics together in just one year was an experiment. It was based on the idea that, as new fields of physics are opened up, students must work their way further back, to earlier stages of the educational program.... The experiment was unsuccesful. The total material was too much for one year, and much of the material in these notes is now given after a full year graduate course in quantum mechanics.' (-from the Preface by the author). 198 p. illus. 23 cm.