Iop Concise Physics imprint: 189 books
by Mark S Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Assuming a background in basic classical physics, multivariable calculus, and differential equations, A Concise Introduction to Quantum Mechanics provides a self-contained presentation of the mathematics and physics of quantum mechanics. The relevant aspects of classical mechanics and electrodynamics...
by Joshua F Whitney, Heather M Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This is a companion textbook for an introductory course in physics. It aims to link the theories and models that students learn in class with practical problem-solving techniques. In other words, it should address the common complaint that 'I understand the concepts but I can't do the homework or tests'....
by Santiago Bernal
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
This book provides a brief exposition of the principles of beam physics and particle accelerators with an emphasis on numerical examples employing readily available computer tools. However, it avoids detailed derivations, instead inviting the reader to use general high-end languages such as Mathcad...
Keplerian Ellipses
The Physics of the Gravitational Two-Body Problem
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The development of man's understanding of planetary motions is the crown jewel of Newtonian mechanics.
This book offers a concise but self-contained handbook-length treatment of this historically important topic for students at about the third-year-level of an undergraduate physics curriculum....
by Brian R. Kent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
SMath is a free mathematical notebook program similar to Mathcad that provides many options for studying and solving complex mathematical equations. This book is a primer providing a concise but thorough introduction that keeps physics at a fairly low leve
by Tao Pang
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Monte Carlo methods have been very prominent in computer simulation of various systems in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. This book focuses on the discussion and path-integral quantum Monte Carlo methods in many-body physics and provides a concise but complete introduction to the...
The Manhattan Project
A very brief introduction to the physics of nuclear weapons
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The development of nuclear weapons by the Manhattan Project during World War II was one of the most dramatic scientific/technological episodes in human history. This book, prepared by a recognized expert on the Manhattan Project, offers a concise survey of the essential physics concepts underlying...
Theories of Matter, Space, and Time
Quantum Theories
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
This book and its prequel (Theories of Matter, Space, and Time: Classical Theories) grew out of courses that are taught by the authors on the undergraduate degree program in physics at Southampton University, UK. The authors aim to guide the full MPhys undergraduate cohort through some of the trickier...
Theories of Matter, Space and Time
Classical Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book and its sequel (Theories of Matter Space and Time: Quantum Theories) are taken from third and fourth year undergraduate Physics courses at Southampton University, UK. The aim of both books is to move beyond the initial courses in classical mechanics, special relativity, electromagnetism,...
Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project
How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes....
by David L. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book provides a fresh, photon‐based description of modern molecular spectroscopy and photophysics, with applications drawn from chemistry, biology, physics and materials science. The concise and detailed approach includes some of the most recent devel
Special and General Relativity
An Introduction to Spacetime and Gravitation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This book provides a concise introduction to both the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. The format is chosen to provide the basis for a single semester course which can take the students all the way from the foundations of special relativity to the core results of...
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo
A Guide to Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo: A guide to particle physics is a brief and ambitious expedition into the remarkably simple ingredients of all the wonders of nature. With hardly a mathematical formula, Professor Cindy Schwarz clearly explains the language and much of the substance of elementary particle...
Physics is…
The Physicist Explores Attributes of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
He's back! The physicist returns with an entirely new compilation of questions and answers from his long-lived website where laypeople can ask questions about anything physics related. This book focuses on adjectives (practical, beautiful, surprising, cool, frivolous) instead of nouns like the first...