BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS:
1. K.S. Krane, "Modern Physics" second edition (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996).
2. L.J. Curtis, "Atomic Structure and Lifetimes: A Conceptual Approach," (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003).
# Reprints available.
PEDAGOGIC ARTICLES:
#1. L.J. Curtis, R.R. Haar & M. Kummer, "An Expectation Value Formulation of the Perturbed Kepler Problem," Amer. J. Phys. 55, 627-31 (1987).
#2. L.J. Curtis, "A Semi-Classical Formula for the Term Energy of a Many Electron Atom," J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 14, 1373-86 (1981).
#3. L.J. Curtis, "Classical Mmenonic Approach for Obtaining Hydrogenic Expectation Values of rp," Phys. Rev. A 43, 568-9 (1991).
#4. L.J. Curtis & R.R. Silbar, "Self-Consistent Core Potentials for Complex Atoms: A Semiclassical Approach," J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 17, 4087-101 (1984).
5. A. Einstein, "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper," Annalen der Physik 17, 903 (1905).
6. L.L. Foldy & S.A. Wouthuysen, "On the Dirac Theory of Spin 1/2 Particles and Its Non-Relativistic Limit," Phys. Rev. 78, 29-36 (1950).
7. H.C. Ohanian, "What is Spin?" Am. J. Phys. 43, 500-5 (1986).
#8. R.R. Haar & L.J. Curtis, "The Thomas Precession Gives ge-1, Not ge/2," Amer. J. Phys. 55, 1044-5 (1987).
#9. L.J. Curtis, "On the aZ Expansion for the Dirac Energy of a One-Electron Atom," J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 10, L641-5 (1977).
#10. L.J. Curtis, "Explicit Functional Approximation for the Z Dependence of Self-Energy Radiative Corrections in Hydrogenlike Atoms," J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 18, L651-6 (1985).
#11. L.J. Curtis, "Predictions of the Early Atomic Meanlife Theory of Wilhelm Wien," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 63, 105-7 (1973).
#12. L.J. Curtis, "A Diagrammatic Mnemonic for Calculation of Cascading Level Populations," Amer. J. Phys. 36, 1123-8 (1968).
#13. L.J. Curtis, "Convolution of a Time-Dependent Driven Excitation into the Decay Curve of an Arbitrarily Cascaded and Blended Level," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 64, 495-7 (1974).
#14. L.J. Curtis, "Simple Formula for the Distortions in a Gaussian Representation of a Poisson Distribution," Amer. J. Phys 43, 1101-3 (1975).
#15. L.J. Curtis, "Concept of the Exponential Law Prior to 1900," Amer. J. Phys. 46, 896-906 (1978).
#16. L.J. Curtis and D.G. Ellis, "A Formula for Cancellation Disappearances of Atomic Oscillator Strengths," J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 11, L543-6 (1978).
#17. L.J. Curtis, "Use of Hydrogenic Transition Probabilities for Non-Penetrating Rydberg States with Core Polarisation," J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 12, 509-13 (1978).
#18. L.J. Curtis, "Semi-Empirical Regularities in the Spectra and Transition Probabilities of Heavy and Highly Ionized Atoms," Nuclear Instruments and Methods 202, 333-8 (1981).
#19. L.J. Curtis, "Semiempirical Methods for Systematization of High Precision Atomic Data," Comments on Atomic and Molecular Physics 16, 1-19 (1985).
#20. L.J. Curtis, "Bengt Edlén's Handbuch der Physik Article - 26 years Later," Physica Scripta 35, 805-10 (1987).
#21. L.J. Curtis, "Semiempirical Confrontations Between Theory and Experiment in Highly Ionised Atoms," Physica Scripta 39, 447-57 (1989).
