Table of Contents

1. Relativistic Wave Equation for Spin-0 Particles: The Klein—Gordon Equation and Its Applications.- 2. A Wave Equation for Spin-½ Particles: The Dirac Equation.- 3. Lorentz Covariance of the Dirac Equation.- 4. Spinors Under Spatial Reflection.- 5. Bilinear Covariants of the Dirac Spinors.- 6. Another Way of Constructing Solutions of the Free Dirac Equation: Construction by Lorentz Transformations.- 7. Projection Operators for Energy and Spin.- 8. Wave Packets of Plane Dirac Waves.- 9. Dirac Particles in External Fields: Examples and Problems.- 10.The Two-Centre Dirac Equation.- 11. The Foldy-Wouthuysen Representation for Free Particles.- 12. The Hole Theory.- 13. Klein’s Paradox.- 14. The Weyl Equation — The Neutrino.- 15. Wave Equations for Particles with Arbitrary Spins.- 16. Lorentz Invariance and Relativistic Symmetry Principles.

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