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?I?d recommend this book to anyone in the field and anyone lecturing in it. It?s wonderful. Reading any section will always yield insights, and you can?t go wrong with Griffiths as a guide.? ( Times Higher Education Supplement, December 2009)
?A clearly written textbook balancing intuitive understanding and mathematical rigour, emphasizing elementary particle theory.? (Reviews, May 2009)
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In Introduction to Elementary Particles, Second, Revised Edition, author David Griffiths strikes a balance between quantitative rigor and intuitive understanding, using a lively, informal style. The first chapter provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject, while subsequent chapters offer a quantitative presentation of the Standard Model. A simplified introduction to the Feynman rules, based on a "toy" model, helps readers learn the calculational techniques without the complications of spin. It is followed by accessible treatments of quantum electrodynamics, the strong and weak interactions, and gauge theories. New chapters address neutrino oscillations and prospects for physics beyond the Standard Model. The book contains a number of worked examples and many end-of-chapter problems. A complete solution manual is available for instructors.
- Revised edition of a well-established text on elementary particle physics
- With a number of worked examples and many end-of-chapter problems
- Helps the student to master the Feynman rules
- Solution manual available for instructors
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The best introductory textbook on elementary particles,
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This review is from: Introduction to Elementary Particles (Paperback)
One of the most interesting and most intellectually far-reaching areas of modern Physics is Particle Physics. No other area of Physics has as conceptually profound implications for our understanding of how the world works on the very fundamental level, and nowhere else have the experiments been as monumental and imposing. And yet, particle Physics is rarely if ever taught in undergraduate Physics curriculum. The reason often given for this is that mathematical sophistication required for fully understanding this subject is far beyond the capability of most undergraduates. However, if done properly, the mathematical sophistication need not be beyond what is required in an upper level Electricity and Magnetism or Quantum Mechanics courses. To the contrary - the most important results in Particle Physics can be obtained by mathematical means that are not nearly as demanding as those in those other two upper level Physics courses. A perfect example of this are the textbooks by David Griffiths. He has been well known to generations of Physics students who had used his Electricity and Magnetism or Quantum Mechanics textbooks. These textbooks have become a de-facto standard for teaching those subjects. These textbooks are also known for many very demanding problems that require many, many pages of mathematical manipulation. And yet, most of these manipulations are much harder than anything you'll encounter in Griffiths' "Introduction to Elementary particles." There is still a collection of worked-out examples, but nowhere nearly at the level of what one finds in his other books. The presentation is characteristically accessible and pedagogical. A considerable amount of space is devoted to historical and experimental considerations, and this textbook also serves as a useful history of the development of particle Physics.The second edition greatly streamlines some presentations and introduces a few new topics that have been of interest in particle Physics in recent decades - most notably the neutrino oscillations. The chapter on future developments is mostly descriptive, and mercifully short on certain topics that have enjoyed a lot of attention lately but have been woefully short on experimental verifications, such as supersymmetry and string theory. In the end we are left off with a picture of current understanding of particle Physics that shows this field of research both as a tremendous success and still a work in progress. Hopefully in the upcoming decades we'll be able to fill in many of the holes and come up with a more streamlined understanding of nature at the most fundamental level. Until then, textbooks like this one will be the best and surest way of getting the basic facts about the nature of elementary particles.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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To Marvel and to Understand,
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This review is from: Introduction to Elementary Particles (Paperback)
Many of us do not want to marvel at the Universe only, but also want to understand it. This book of Professor David Griffiths provides the means to do both, as regards the inner Universe of subatomic particles.Understanding the foundations of modern particle physics, interactions and gauge theories is not easy, but with a solid grasp of quantum mechanics and special relativity Griffiths book offers the fastest way to learn most of this fascinating subject. The author never gives you a chance to get bored. Every once in a while there is some witty remark or a breathtaking (literally breathtaking!) trip to the verge of a new discovery, like for example: could the singlet gluon be a photon and so on ... ? Footnotes compliment the main text in providing details that are very important. One of the very few drawbacks I noticed is the lack of an explanation for why we sum over outgoing spins but average over the incoming ones when calculating the average of amplitudes in Feynman diagrams.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Introduction to Elementary Particles,
This review is from: Introduction to Elementary Particles (Paperback)
Having gone through many problems in the text, I find this textbook extremely friendly to someone with a background in physics. I am taking a subatomic course in my fourth year of an undergraduate degree. Griffiths textbooks have always been awesome (Quantum Mechanics and Electrodynamics), this one is also awesome. As long as the reader has a background in mathematics and certain topics in physics (quantum mechanics and special relativity), this textbook will be a great introduction to particle physics. I would highly recommend this text for any undergraduate physics student interested in particle physics.
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