本书详细介绍了器件物理学中的有关经典力学的相关知识，及纳米级新结构精密制造的持续进步如何为器件物理提供了独特的机遇。本书共分六章，主要包括经典力学中的概念、晶格振动、驱动振荡及其瞬态动力学、洛伦兹振子模型和德鲁德模型等内容。本书总结了那些最适用于科学家和工程师研究设备物理学的经典力学元素，提供了复杂的设备行为的量子模型，还探讨了读者可能希望解决的现实问题，尽管其中一些比其他更有挑战性。本书适合高等院校师生、研究生及相关专业研究者、爱好者参考阅读。

安东尼·利瓦伊 joined the faculty at the University of Southern California in mid-1993 after working for ten years at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He invented hot electron spectroscopy, discovered ballistic electron transport in heterostructure bipolar transistors, demonstrated room temperature operation of unipolar transistors with ballistic electron transport, created the first microdisk laser, and carried out work in parallel fiber optic interconnect components in computer and switching systems. His current research interests include high-performance electronic and photonic systems, radio frequency photonics, very small lasers and modeling their behavior, and optimal design of small electronic and photonic systems. To date he has published numerous scientific papers and several book chapters. He is the author of the book Applied Quantum Mechanics, co-editor of the book Optimal Device Design, and holds 17 US patents.

Preface
Author biography
1 Concepts in classical mechanics
1.1 The quantumclassical boundary
1.2 Separation of scales and constraints
1.3 Newtonian mechanics
1.4 The one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator
1.5 Generalization
1.6 Increasing complexity to discover new phenomena
Problems
Reference
2 Lattice vibrations
2.1 Harmonic oscillation of a diatomic molecule
2.2 Beyond harmonic oscillation of a diatomic molecule
2.2.1 The monatomic linear chain
2.3 The dispersion relation and symmetry
2.3.1 The diatomic linear chain
2.4 Lattice vibrations in semiconductors
Problems
Reference
3 Driven oscillation
3.1 The damped oscillator subject to an external harmonic force
3.2 Coupled oscillator normal modes and beats
3.3 Coupled damped oscillator
Problems
4 Transient dynamics of driven oscillation
4.1 The RungeKutta method
4.2 Phasor diagram of a harmonically driven damped oscillator
4.3 Control of a harmonically driven damped oscillator
4.4 Transient dynamics of a harmonically driven damped non-harmonic oscillator
4.5 Control of systems with chaotic motion
4.6 Noise
4.6.1 Brownian motion
4.7 Diffusion and mobility
Problems
References
5 The Lorentz oscillator model
5.1 Isotropic materials with a linear local response
5.2 Electric susceptibility of an insulating dielectric
5.3 The Kramers-Kronig relation
5.4 The transverse dielectric permittivity function
5.5 Propagation of electromagnetic waves in a dielectric medium
5.6 An electromagnetic plane-wave at normal incidence
5.7 Reflectance
5.8 Normal and anomalous dispersion
5.9 Permittivity due to longitudinal polar-optic phonons
5.10 The loss function
Problems
References
6 The Drude model
6.1 DC conductivity
6.2 AC conductivity
6.3 Kinetic inductance
6.4 Permittivity of metal
6.4.1 The loss function of copper
6.5 Physical origin of plasma frequency
6.5.1 Local response in the Drude model
6.6 An electromagnetic field interacting with a metal
6.7 Drude dispersion of electromagnetic radiation
6.8 Changing the properties of a metal
Problems
References
Appendices
A Physical values
B Maxwell's equations
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