Elementary Theory of Angular Momentum. By M. E. Rose. Pp. x, 248. 80s. 1957. (Wiley)

M. E. Rose, Bernard T. Feld

Preston C. Hammer

Leo Pincherle

By M. E. Rose London : Chapman & Hall Ltd. Pp. x + 248. Price 80s. The theory of angular momentum has long been of importance in spectroscopy, and those interested in the subject twenty-five years ago had to find their way rather painfully through highly formal textbooks and papers. The theory has lately become even more important mainly because of improvements in experimental techniques for measuring angular distributions or angular correlations in nuclear physics, and because of problems in low-temperature studies and in microwave spectroscopy involving static moments coupled to fields arising from surrounding charges.

Lawrence C. Biedenharn, H. van Dam

J M Irvine

J C Willmott Chichester: J Wiley 1975 pp xiv + 357 price £8.50 ( cased ) £4.25 ( paperback ) This book is another in the Manchester Physics Series of textbooks and is intended for students in their second year of an honours physics course at an English university. The book follows the conventional historical approach to the subject beginning with the experimental evidence for atomicity and the breakdown of classical physics; an introduction to wave mechanics followed by an elementary account of angular momentum in quantal systems and applications to the hydrogen atom.

Christopher Dewdney, Z. Malik

We present the Bohm theory of hydrogenlike atoms, the measurement of orbital angular momentum, and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen angular momentum correlations. We use the illustrations to discuss the arguments of von Neumann [described in M. Jammer, The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Wiley, New York, 1974)] and Kochen and Specker [J. Math. Mech. 17, 59 (1967)] against hidden variables.