Livanova / Sykes Landau

A Great Physicist and Teacher
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-8554-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Web PDF

A biography of Lev Landau, one of the greatest Soviet theoretical physicists, whose career was cut short by a catastrophic car accident in 1962 and who was still only sixty when he died six years later. He won the Nobel Prize 'for pioneering work on the theory of the condensed state of matter, particularly liquid helium'. But the book shows that Landau's characterisation of himself as 'one of the last of the universal men of theoretical physics' was fully justified. Clearly and concisely it describes his achievements in all areas of theoretical physics from hydrodynamics to the quantum theory of fields. Attention is also paid to his genius as a teacher and mentor of young scientists, and throughout the book the true humanity of the man is evident

Autoren/Hrsg.

Livanova, A.

Sykes, J. B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Landau: A Great Physicist and Teacher;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Acknowledgements;7
6;Preface;8
7;An Introduction;14
8;Another Introduction;20
9;Chapter 1. Years, Cities, Institutes;29
9.1;Baku to Leningrad;29
9.2;Copenhagen with Bohr, and other scientific centres;33
9.3;Leningrad to Kharkov;38
9.4;Moscow: the Institute of Physical Problems;44
10;Chapter 2. The School of Landau;51
10.1;Landau the teacher;51
10.2;The theoretical seminar;54
10.3;The theoretical minimum;69
10.4;The Course of Theoretical Physics;82
10.5;The School of Landau;90
10.6;Teacher and pupils;98
11;Chapter 3. The Theory of the Superfluidity of Liquid Helium;111
11.1;Low temperatures, absolute zero, and quantum mechanics;111
11.2;Helium the joker;124
11.3;Two heliums or "helium two";129
11.4;Kapitza studies the behaviour of helium II and discovers superfluidity;139
11.5;Landau uses quantum mechanics, the physics of the microworld, to explain events in the macroworld;151
11.6;Landau constructs the energy spectrum of helium II;162
11.7;The two-faced Janus, helium II;171
11.8;Most surprising of all;179
11.9;Theoretician and experimenters;182
11.10;Second sound;190
11.11;Epilogue to a discovery;196
12;Chapter 4. Dau Away From Physics;201
13;Appendix: Landau 's plain talk to students of physics;212
14;Index;228