About the Author
Richard M. Talman is Professor of Physics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He studied physics at the University of Western Ontario and received his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1963. After accepting a full professorship for Physics at Cornell in 1971, he spent time as Visiting Scientist in Stanford, CERN, Berkeley, and the S.S.C. in Dallas and Saskatchewan. In addition, he has delivered lecture series at several institutions including Rice and Yale Universities. Professor Talman has been engaged in the design and construction of a series of accelerators, with special emphasis on x-rays.
New to Edition
* completely revised, updated and extended second edition, featuring new chapters on Electromagnetic Theory, General Relativity and String Theory
* chapter on Relativistic Mechanics (12) rewritten and expanded
* chapter on Linear Systems (15) shortened
* discussion of the topics which do not contribute to the new theme of the book reduced or eliminated (9.3 Tumblers, 12.10 Longitudinal Coordinate Transformation, 15.4 A Lagrangian Set of Solutions, 15.15.5 Periodic Solutions, 16.4 Multidimensional Perturbation Theory, etc.)