Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers

1. The Wave-Particle Duality 2. The Schrodinger Wave Equation 3. Operators and Waves 4. Hydrogen Aton 5. Many-Electron Atoms 6. The Emergence of Masers and Lasers 7. Statistical Physics 8. Electronic Structure of Solids 9. Charge Carriers in Semiconductors 10. Semiconductor Lasers 11. Relativity I 12. Relativity II 13. Particles Physics 14. Nuclear Physics Appendix A: Natural Constants and Conversion Constants Appendix B: Table of Atomic Masses Appendix C: Solution of the Oscillator Equation Appendix D: The Average Value of the Momentum Appendix E: The Hartree-Fock Applet Appendix F: Integrals that Arise in Statistical Physics Appendix G: The ABINIT Applet

John Morrison received a BS degree in Physics from University of Santa
Clara in California. During his undergraduate years, he majored in English,
Philosophy, and Physics and served as the editor of the campus literary magazine,
the Owl. Enrolling at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland,
he received a PhD degree in theoretical Physics and moved on to postdoctoral
research at Argonne National Laboratory where he was a member of the Heavy
Atom Group.
He then went to Sweden where he received a grant from the Swedish Research
Council to build up a research group in theoretical atomic physics at
Chalmers Technical University in Goteborg, Sweden. Working together with
Ingvar Lindgren, he taught a graduate level-course in theoretical atomic physics
for a number of years. Their teaching lead to the publication of the monograph,
Atomic Many-Body Theory, which rst appeared as Volume 13 of the Springer
Series on Chemical Physics. The second edition of this book has become a
Springer classic.
Returning to the United States, John Morrison obtained a position in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Louisville where he has
taught courses in elementary physics, astronomy, modern physics, and quantum
mechanics. In recent years, he has traveled extensively in Latin America and
the Middle East maintaining contacts with scientists and mathematicians at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Technion University in Haifa. During
the Fall semester of 2009, he taught a course on computational physics at Birzeit
University near Ramallah on the West Bank, and he has recruited Palestinian
students for the graduate program in physics at University of Louisville. He
speaks English, Swedish, and Spanish, and he is currently studying Arabic and
Hebrew.