Theory of Fundamental Processes

Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.

• Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Review of the Principles of Quantum Mechanics -- Spin and Statistics -- Rotations and Angular Momentum -- Rules of Composition of Angular Momentum -- Relativity -- Electromagnetic and Fermi Couplings -- Fermi Couplings and the Failure of Parity -- Pion-Nucleon Coupling -- Strange Particles -- Some Consequences of Strangeness -- Strong Coupling Schemes -- Strange Particles -- The Question of a Universal Coupling Coefficient -- Rules of Strangeness Changing Decays: Experiments -- Fundamental Laws of Electromagnetic and β-Decay Coupling -- Density of Final States -- The Propagator for Scalar Particles -- The Propagator in Configuration Space -- Particles of Spin -- Virtual and Real Photons -- Problems -- Spin-1/2 Particles -- Extension of Finite Mass -- Properties of the Four-Component Spinor -- Particles of Spin -- Direct Pair Production by Muons -- Higher-Order Processes -- Self-Energy of the Electron -- Quantum Electrodynamics -- Meson Theory -- Theory of β Decay -- Properties of the β-Decay Coupling -- Summary of the Course