On Angular Momentum (Dover Books on Physics) by Julian Schwinger | (PDF) Free Download

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A concise treatment of angular momentum by an important American physicist, this major work was first published under the auspices of the United States Atomic Energy Commission in 1952 and is finally available to a general audience of students and professionals in the field. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics will particularly benefit from its teachings.One of the most prominent American physicists of the twentieth century, Julian Schwinger (1918–94) taught at Harvard, MIT, and UCLA, among other institutions. In addition to his many other awards, Schwinger, jointly with Richard Feynman and Shinichiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics.

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⭐Very technical. Definitely not a textbook. Nor is it a monograph. It’s a 51-page technical report published in 1952, including 7½ pages of appendices. These are the section headings.1. Introduction. (4½ pages)2. Rotations. (8 pages)3. Addition of two angular momenta (12 pages)4. Three and four angular momenta (7 pages)5. Tensor operators (11 pages)Appendix A. (2 pages)Appendix B. (2 pages)Appendix C. (3½ pages)The text is almost all purely computational, with essentially no commentary on applications, motivation or the underlying theory. There’s no QFT or QED here. It’s just spin, no fields. (And by the way, I don’t understand it either!)Julian Schwinger is a physics Nobel prize winner whose role in the development of QED, QFT etc. is well known. If you want textbooks written by him, I think you’re probably better off with the following.

⭐Excellent news for students of physics. Dover Press has published this reprint of Schwinger’s classic work. Extremely affordable compared to current texts. Dover is renowned for the low cost of its imprints, though the downside is that its authors get niggardly royalties. Still given that Schwinger is safely dead, maybe his estate does not have an issue. By the way, he is still remembered at UCLA, where he taught for decades. If you go to the main physics building, there is a painting of him.The most noticeable aspect is the paucity of figures. Newly written books now are much more richly endowed with diagrams, which are often in colour. Still, if you can accommodate this, you could be rewarded by learning from a giant of 20th century physics.Comment Comment | Permalink

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