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High-level treatment discusses the general theory and its applications: basic principles, coupling coefficients for vector addition, transformation properties of the angular momentum wave functions under rotations of the coordinate axes, irreducible tensors and Racah coefficients. Also, applications involving oriented nuclei, coupling schemes in nuclear reactions, more. 1957 edition.

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Part A. GENERAL THEORY I. REVIEW OF BASIC PRINCIPLES 1. HERMITIAN OPERATORS 2. UNITARY TRANSFORMATIONS 3. DIAGONALIZATION OF OPERATORS 4. EXPONENTIAL FORM OF THE UNITARY OPERATORS II. THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPERATORS 5. DEFINITION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPERATORS 6. ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM 7. COMMUTATION RULES FOR ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPERATORS 8. EIGENVALUES OF THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPERATORS 9. PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM III. COUPLING OF TWO ANGULAR MOMENTA 10. DEFINITION OF THE CLEBSCH-GORDAN COEFFICIENTS 11. SYMMETRY RELATIONS OF THE CLEBSCH-GORDAN COEFFICIENTS 12. EVALUATION OF CLEBSCH-GORDAN COEFFICIENTS IV. TRANSFORMATION PROPERTIES UNDER ROTATIONS 13. MATRIX REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ROTATION OPERATORS 14. THE CLEBSCH-GORDAN SERIES 15. DETERMINATION OF THE ROTATION MATRICES 16. ORTHOGONALITY AND NORMALIZATION OF THE ROTATION MATRICES V. IRREDUCIBLE TENSORS 17. DEFINITION OF IRREDUCIBLE TENSOR OPERATORS 18. RACAH'S DEFINITION OF IRREDUCIBLE TENSOR OPERATORS 19. THE WIGNER-ECKART THEOREM 20. THE PROJECTION THEOREM FOR FIRST-RANK TENSORS 21. ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A VECTOR FIELD VI. RACAH COEFFICIENTS 22. COUPLING OF THREE ANGULAR MOMENTA 23. PROPERTIES OF THE RACAH COEFFICIENTS 24. BASIC APPLICATIONS 25. THE GRADIENT FORMULA Part B. APPLICATIONS VII. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD 26. THE MAXWELL EQUATIONS 27. THE MULTIPOLE FIELDS VIII. STATIC INTERACTIONS 28. MULTIPOLE MOMENTS OF AN ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE DISTRIBUTION 29. SPIN INTERACTIONS IX. PARTICLES OF SPIN 1/2 30. NON-RELATIVISTIC DESCRIPTION 31. RELATIVISTIC DESCRIPTION X. ORIENTED NUCLEI AND ANGULAR CORRELATIONS 32. CAPTURE OF POLARIZED NEUTRONS BY POLARIZED NUCLEI 33. ANGULAR CORRELATION 34. EMISSION OF ALPHA PARTICLES BY AN ORIENTED NUCLEUS XI. ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS IN NUCLEAR REACTIONS 35. j-j AND L-S COUPLING 36. ANGULAR MOMENTUM COUPLING IN NUCLEAR REACTIONS XII. IDENTICAL PARTICLES 37. IDENTICAL PARTICLES IN j-j COUPLING 38. IDENTICAL PARTICLES IN L-S COUPLING 39. THE ISOTOPIC SPIN APPENDIX I. CLEBSCH-GORDAN AND RACAH COEFFICIENTS APPENDIX II. THE ROTATION MATRICES APPENDIX III. THE SPHERICAL HARMONICS AUTHOR INDEX SUBJECT INDEX

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High-level treatment discusses the general theory and its applications: basic principles, coupling coefficients for vector addition, transformation properties of the angular momentum wave functions under rotations of the coordinate axes, irreducible tensors and Racah coefficients. Also, applications involving oriented nuclei, coupling schemes in nuclear reactions, more. 1957 edition.

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