General Physics category: 2746 books
Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks
Applications to Biology, Computer Science, and the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2009
This self-contained book systematically explores the statistical dynamics on and of complex networks having relevance across a large number of scientific disciplines. The theories related to complex networks are increasingly being used by researchers for their usefulness in harnessing the most difficult...
A History of the Electron
J. J. and G. P. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Two landmarks in the history of physics are the discovery of the particulate nature of cathode rays (the electron) by J. J. Thomson in 1897 and the experimental demonstration by his son G. P. Thomson in 1927 that the electron exhibits the properties of a wave. Together, the Thomsons are two of the...
Physics, Nature and Society
A Guide to Order and Complexity in Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us understand the boundaries between physics, on the one hand, and sociology, economics, and biology on the other. From cooperation and criticality to flock dynamics and fractals, the author...
No Truth Except in the Details
Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline...
The Science of Everyday Life
Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways? Or why microwaves don't cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show presenter and all-round Science Bloke Marty...
by Ludwig Boltzmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
One of the great masterpieces of theoretical physics, this classic work contains a comprehensive exposition of the kinetic theory of gases that is still relevant today, nearly 100 years after its first publication. Although the modifications of quantum mechanics have rendered some parts of the work...
by Colin Barras
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
With Science Hacks, you no longer need a PhD to understand the fascinating ideas behind science's greatest theories and discoveries. This latest addition to the ingenious new Hacks series will show you a technique for understanding and, crucially, remembering 100 of the most important and most interesting...
MCAT Test Prep Physics Review--Exambusters Flash Cards--Workbook 3 of 3
MCAT Exam Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"MCAT Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: PHYSICS" 600 questions and answers. Sample problems. Topics: Metric System, Motion and Forces, Work and Energy, Fluids, Sound, Light and Optics, Static Electricity, D.C. and A.C. Circuits, Magnetism [==================] ADDITIONAL WORKBOOKS: "MCAT Prep Flashcard Workbook...
String Theory and M-Theory
A Modern Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal...
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Quantized Fields and Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime has been remarkably fruitful. It can be used to explain how the large-scale structure of the universe and the anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation that we observe today first arose. Similarly, it provides a deep connection between general relativity,...
Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality
From Theory to Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most important ideas ever conceived in particle physics. It is a symmetry that relates known elementary particles of a certain spin to as yet undiscovered particles that differ by half a unit of that spin (known as Superparticles). Supersymmetric models now stand...
by Valery I. Klyatskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Fluctuating parameters appear in a variety of physical systems and phenomena. They typically come either as random forces/sources, or advecting velocities, or media (material) parameters, like refraction index, conductivity, diffusivity, etc. Models naturally render to statistical description, where...
by Lawrence Sklar
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This book focuses on the most important questions of philosophy of physics, offering a sufficiently concise and clear treatment of the issues to lead the interested reader through the sometimes labyrinthian paths taken by the central debates.
by Niels Bohr
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This collection of articles, which were first published in 1958 and written on various occasions between 1932 and 1957, forms a sequel to Danish physician Niels Bohr’s earlier essays in Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (1934).
“The theme of the papers is the epistemological lesson...