Classical Field Theory and the Stress-Energy Tensor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781643279046)

This book is a concise introduction to the key concepts of classical field theory for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who wish to study the unifying structures and physical insights provided by classical field theory without dealing with the additional complication of quantization. In that regard, there are many important aspects of field theory that can be understood without quantizing the fields. These include the action formulation, Galilean and relativistic invariance, traveling and standing waves, spin angular momentum, gauge invariance, subsidiary conditions, fluctuations, spinor and vector fields, conservation laws and symmetries, and the Higgs mechanism, all of which are often treated briefly in a course on quantum field theory.

Author: Mark S. Swanson
ISBN-10: 1643279041
ISBN-13: 9781643279046
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2015
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d