Download or read book The Application of Group Theory in Physics written by Grigoriĭ I︠A︡kovlevich Li︠u︡barskiĭ and published by Reader's Digest Young Families. This book was released on 1960 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of the theory of groups -- Some specific groups -- The theory of group representations -- Operations with group representations -- Representations of certain groups -- Small oscillations of symmetrical systems -- Second order phase transitions -- Crystals -- Infinite groups -- Representations of the rotation groups in two and three dimensions and of the full orthogonal group -- Clebsch-Gordon and Racah coefficients -- The Schrödinger equation -- Equations invariant under the Euclidean group of motions in space -- Absorption and Raman scattering of light -- Representations of the Lorentz group -- Relativistically invariant equations -- Nuclear reactions.