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" Atoms and Light: "
by John N. Dodd.
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BL
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734741
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b554575
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by John N. Dodd.
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Atoms and Light: : Interactions\ by John N. Dodd.
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| Publication Statement
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Boston, MA: Springer US : Imprint : Springer, 1991
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| Series Statement
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Physics of atoms and molecules.
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1475793316
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: 1475793332
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: 9781475793314
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: 9781475793338
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| Contents
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1 Introduction and History --;2 Classical Radiation --;3 The Oscillating Charge --;4 Scattering of Radiation from a Charge Driven by an Electromagnetic Field --;5 Intensity, Energy Density, the Poynting Vector, and Their Spectral Distributions --;6 The Interaction of a Beam of Electromagnetic Radiation with a Free Electric Charge--The Compton Effect --;7 The Quantum Structure of the Atom --;8 The Einstein A and B Coefficients --;9 The Semiclassical Treatment of Stimulated Absorption and Emission --;10 The Semiclassical Description of Spontaneous Decay --;11 The General Optical Transition --;12 The Photoelectric Effect --;13 Optical Coherence and Counting Statistics --;14 What Is Light? --;Appendix 1 Time Averaging --;A1.1. Truncated Time Averaging --;A1.2. Exponential Averaging --;A1.3. Averaging over a Finite Time Interval --;A1.4. The Energy Density and Spectral Distribution of "Broad-Band" or "White" Light --;A1.5. The Monochromatic Field --;A1.6. The Modulated Field Arising from the Coherent Superposition of Two Frequencies --;Appendix 2 Ensemble Averaging --;Appendix 3 The Zero-Point Vacuum Field --;References --;Appendix 4 An Invariant form for Angular Momentum--Justification for Eq. (6.17) --;Appendix 5 Functions --;A5.1. The Dirac Delta Function --;A5.2. The Exponential and the Lorentz Functions --;A5.3. The Square Pulse and the Fraunhofer Function --;A5.4. The Peaked Functions --;Appendix 6 Wave Functions and Bra-Kets --;Appendix 7 The Density of Waves in a Box --;A7.1. The Density of Electromagnetic Field Modes --;A7.2. The Density of Free Particle States.
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This book discusses the interaction of light with atoms, concentrating on the semiclassical descriptions of the processes. The book then proceeds to discuss the interaction from this point of view-light always being described classically, atoms described quantum-mechanically, with quantum rules for the interaction.
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Physics.
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QC475.B956 1991
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John N Dodd
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