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Firstly, there are many experimental phenomena which cannot be explained or understood within the purely non relativistic domain. The theory has application in high energy physics, particle physics and accelerator physics, as well as atomic. This book, which brought together an international community of invited authors, represents a rich account of foundation, scientific history of quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics and field theory, and different methods to solve the schrodinger equation. Chapter 1 deals with the kleingordon equation and its properties and applications. Gross suggests that we factor the log out of the summation and use a trick from atomic. Relativistic quantum mechanics in this chapter we will address the issue that the laws of physics must be formulated in a form which is lorentzinvariant, i.
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