{"product_id":"a-standard-model-workbook-isbn-9781940380179","title":"A Standard Model Workbook","description":"This introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics provides students with a classroom-tested workbook to optimize learning this material in student-centered classes. Developed to support a one-semester upper-level undergraduate or graduate course, it includes hundreds of homework problems that will guide students to a clear understanding of this fascinating field.\u003cbr\u003eA Standard Model Workbook provides upper-level undergraduates a one-semester introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics. Its classroom-tested workbook design offers multiple paths through the material, consisting of short chapters that provide an overview of a topic followed by opportunities for students to work out the details for themselves, concluding with homework problems to further develop students’ understanding of the concepts. This allows students to truly own the materials by working through it and allows instructors to construct an active, student-centered class.Topics include a review of special relativity and quantum mechanics; the Lagrangian mechanics of fields; some basic quantum field theory; Feynman diagrams; solutions to the Dirac equation; the U(1), SU(2), and SU(3) symmetries and their implications for electrodynamics; the electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics; renormalization; the Higgs mechanism; fermion and neutrino masses; experimental tests and applications of the Standard Model; and a look at possibilities beyond the Standard Model. The book is designed to offer multiple paths through the material so that instructors can choose what to emphasize. Online “Hints and Selected Solutions” are also available, as is an online Instructor’s Manual.Preface\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003eSection I. Relativity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Special Relativity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Index Notation\u003cbr\u003eSection II. Classical Fields\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. A Classical Scalar Field\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Klein-Gordon Equation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Noether’s Theorem\u003cbr\u003eSection III. Quantum Mechanics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Basic Quantum Mechanics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Operators and Time Evolution\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Angular Momentum\u003cbr\u003eShortcut to 15\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Feynman Diagram Quick Start\u003cbr\u003eSection IV. Quantum Field Theory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Creation and Annihilation Operators\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Quantized Scalar Field\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Interactions and Feynman Diagrams\u003cbr\u003eSection V. Connection to Experiment\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Fermi’s Golden Rule\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Toy Universe Predictions\u003cbr\u003eSection VI. Spin – ½ Particles\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. The Dirac Equation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Transforming Dirac Spinors\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Quantizing the Dirac Field\u003cbr\u003eSection VII. The Electroweak Theory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Electromagnetism from U(1)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Quantum Electrodynamics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Renormalization\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. Applications of QED\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. The Weak Interaction from SU(2)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. The Weak Interaction’s Leftist Bias\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. The Unified Electroweak Theory\u003cbr\u003eSection VIII. Particle Masses\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26. The Higgs Mechanism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 27. Fermion Masses and Mixing\u003cbr\u003eChapter 28. Neutrino Masses and Mixing\u003cbr\u003eChapter 29. Applications of the Electroweak Theory\u003cbr\u003eSection IX. Chromodynamics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 30. Chromodynamics from SU(3)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 31. Applications of QCD\u003cbr\u003eSection X. And Beyond!\u003cbr\u003eChapter 32. Beyond the Standard Model\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A. Potentials From Interactions\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"Moore blends clear and efficient prose with well-chosen exercises that are an essential part of the exposition, helping students build both fluency with the concepts and facility with the calculations. This workbook guides the student from first steps to the sort of mastery through computation that is prized by working physicists.\" --William Loinaz, Amherst CollegeThomas A. Moore is a professor in the physics department of Pomona College.  He graduated from Carleton College in 1976, and earned an M. Phil. in 1978 and a Ph. D. in 1981 from Yale University. He then taught at Carleton College and Luther College before taking his current position at Pomona College in 1987, where he won a Wig Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1991. He served as an active member of the national Introductory University Physics Project (IUPP), and has published a number of articles about astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, detection of gravitational waves, and new approaches to teaching physics. His previous books include A Traveler's Guide to Spacetime (McGraw-Hill, 1995) on special relativity, and a six-volume introductory calculus-based physics text called Six Ideas That Shaped Physics (McGraw-Hill, 2003).","brand":"University Science Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232899444965,"sku":"NP9781940380179","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-standard-model-workbook-isbn-9781940380179","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}