TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lancaster,Jarrett L.
ED  - Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
ED  - Institute of Physics, IOP - EBA (Great Britain),
TI  - Introduction to classical field theory: a tour of the fundamental interactions 
T2  - [IOP release 5]
SN  - 9781643270845
AV  - QC173.7 .L365 2018eb
U1  - 530.14 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA)
PB  - Morgan & Claypool Publishers
KW  - Field theory (Physics)
KW  - Electromagnetism
KW  - Yang-Mills theory
KW  - Gravity
KW  - Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Version: 20180801"--Title page verso; "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Motivation and introduction -- 1.1. The four fundamental interactions -- 1.2. Particle exchange and force mediation -- 1.3. Examining a simple model -- 1.4. Relativity emerges -- 1.5. The necessity of fields and a conundrum -- 1.6. Exercises; 2. Basics of scalar field theory -- 2.1. From oscillators to fields -- 2.2. Lagrange and Hamilton -- 2.3. Hamiltonian with sources -- 2.4. The attractive Yukawa potential -- 2.5. Some relativistic technology -- 2.6. Relativistic field theories -; 3. Electromagnetism -- 3.1. Maxwell's equations -- 3.2. Lagrangian formulation -- 3.3. Why like charges repel : the Coulomb potential -- 3.4. Resolution of a conundrum and magnetic energy -- 3.5. The electric field in arbitrary spatial dimension; 4. Yang-Mills theory -- 4.1. From Maxwell to Yang-Mills -- 4.2. Nonabelian gauge theory formalism -- 4.3. The static potential -- 4.4. The strong nuclear interaction -- 4.5. Classical color charge dynamics -- 4.6. Effective static quark-antiquar; 5. Gravity as a field theory -- 5.1. The trouble with Newtonian gravity -- 5.2. Constructing an appropriate field theory -- 5.3. Emergence of Newton's law of gravity -- 5.4. Interactions of light and matter -- 5.5. A glimpse at general relativit; Also available in print
N2  - This book is a short introduction to classical field theory, and is most suitable for undergraduate students who have completed at least intermediate-level courses in electromagnetism and classical mechanics. The main theme of the book is showca
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