TY - BOOK ID - 146026585 TI - Classical field theory and the stress-energy tensor AU - Swanson, Mark S. AU - Morgan & Claypool Publishers AU - Institute of Physics (Great Britain) PY - 2015 SN - 9781681741215 PB - San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, IOP Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Classical mechanics. KW - SCIENCE / Physics / General. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146026585 AB - This book is a concise introduction to the key concepts of classical field theory for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who wish to study the unifying structures and physical insights provided by classical field theory without dealing with the additional complication of quantization. In that regard, there are many important aspects of field theory that can be understood without quantizing the fields. These include the action formulation, Galilean and relativistic invariance, traveling and standing waves, spin angular momentum, gauge invariance, subsidiary conditions, fluctuations, spinor and vector fields, conservation laws and symmetries, and the Higgs mechanism, all of which are often treated briefly in a course on quantum field theory. ER -