The analysis of collision phenomena plays a role in nearly every investigation into the structure of matter on the microscopic scale — in fact, most of the detailed information on particle interaction derives from scattering experiments. A systematic description of the basic principles of collision theory, this graduate-level text has been used by generations of physicists and has exercised an enormous influence on the rapid development of elementary particle physics.Systematic and careful in its description of the fundamentals of collision theory, this self-contained treatment features numerous instructive and interesting examples. Most experts agree that the mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of scattering requires the construction of wave packets for projectiles and targets, followed by an observation of the time development. This presentation employs precisely that approach in its introduction of compact formal methods.Topics include symmetry operations on the Schrödinger equation, a detailed description of scattering processes and formal scattering theory, the two-body problem with central forces, and scattering by noncentral forces. Further chapters cover the lifetime and decay of virtual states, assorted applications, an introduction to dispersion theory, and scattering by systems of bound particles.

Collision Theory (Dover Books on Physics)

Science & Math

Watson, Kenneth M.

goldberger,marvin l

Physics

Dover Publications

Sound Transmission through a Fluctuating Ocean (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics)

<p>The ocean is transparent to sound where slight irregularities within the ocean cause sound fluctuations, and thus set limits on the many uses of sound in the ocean, similar to the limits imposed by the atmosphere on ground-based telescopes. This 1979 book attempts to connect the known structure of the ocean volume with experimental results in long-range sound transmission. Theories of wave propagation through irregular media, developed for optical and radio wave transmission are found to be inapplicable in many respects due to the complications of ocean structure, particularly the combination of anisotropy and 'sound channel'. The authors extend wave propagation theory to account for the ocean complications and introduces the path-integral approach to the solution of the strong-scattering regime that solves many long-standing problems. The book is written at the post-graduate level, but has been carefully organised to give experimenters a grasp of important results without undue mathematics.</p>

Dashen, Roger

Munk, Walter H.

Zachariasen, Frederik

Mathematics

Cambridge University Press

<p>Hougen, Olaf, Watson, Kenneth M., Ragatz, Roland A.</p>

Principios de los procesos químicos. Balances de materia y energía (Vol.1) (Spanish Edition)

Hougen, Olaf

Ragatz, Roland A.

Chemistry

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