Michael EL-Batanouny is a professor in the Department of Physics at Boston University. His research area is experimental surface physics, and he has written numerous papers on solid state physics and surface physics.
Preface
1. Symmetry and physics
2. Symmetry and group theory
3. Group representations: concepts
4. Group representations: formalism and methodology
5. Dixon's method for computing group characters
6. Group action and symmetry projection operators
7. Construction of the irreducible representations
8. Product groups and product representations
9. Induced representations
10. Crystallographic symmetry and space-groups
11. Space groups: Irreps
12. Time-reversal symmetry: color groups and the Onsager relations
13. Tensors and tensor fields
14. Electronic properties of solids
15. Dynamical properties of molecules, solids and surfaces
16. Experimental measurements and selection rules
17. Landau's theory of phase transitions
18. Incommensurate systems and quasi-crystals
References
Bibliography
Index.