Description:

Written for the one-semester, usually sophomore, modern physics course. Suitable for courses designed to give students a more complete understanding of modern physics than they get in the intro calc-based course. Engineering and Physics majors will find this text extremely well written and approachable--not as high level as texts such as Rohlf, Brehm, Eisberg, etc. Chapters and topics in the new edition have been reordered to lower the barrier for entry into new and unfamiliar subjects and improve the logical and pedagogic connections between topics.

This Second edition of Krane provides a balanced presentation of the historical development of modern physics with experimental evidence supporting theory. It employs a wide variety of real-world applications and data. Computer problems from the CUPS Modern Physics Simulations have been added to many chapters discussions of new and increasingly precise tests of special relativity, wave-particle duality of light, and wave nature of particles.

Features:

• The experimental tests of modern physics are presented and discussed.

• Applications of all basic phenomena are presented (including wave mechanics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, statistics, molecular physics, solids, etc.)

• Introductory material on astrophysics and cosmology (chs. 15 & 16) is included.

• Has a unified discussion of classes of elementary particles.

• Worked examples in every chapter.

• End-of-chapter problems are NOT keyed to specific sections in the text.

Changes In New Edition:

• 25% more worked examples, 23% more end-of-chapter questions, and 15% more problems.

• Improved coverage of relativity and statistical physics.

• New, open-ended problems included.

• End-of-chapter reading lists updated to include references to the latest literature.

• New color photo inset containing many true- and false-color photos illustrating phenomena discussed in the text.

• Extensively revised chapters on The Special Theory of Relativity, Elementary Particles, Astrophysics and General Relativity, and Cosmology.

• Contains updates on latest discoveries in nuclear physics, particle physics, superconductivity, astrophysics, and cosmology.

Supplements:

• Solutions Manual
  0-471-10815-4
  Contains complete solutions to all end-of-chapter problems in the text. Also contains rationale for selected solutions.