Iop Concise Physics imprint: 189 books
The Universe Untangled
Modern Physics for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Space curves around you, time slows down, particles are waves, a cat is both alive and dead. What's going on? It all starts to make sense when we untangle the universe with this clear and enlightening book. Day-dreamers and deep-thinkers, these are the concepts that will send your mind wandering to...
Quantum Field Theory
An Arcane Setting for Explaining the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
While there are many good books in particle physics, very seldom if ever a non-specialist comprehensive description of Quantum Field Theory has appeared. The intention of this short book is to offer a guided tour of that innermost topic of Theoretical Physics, in plain words and avoiding the mathematical...
by Julian Goldsmid
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book outlines the principles of thermoelectric generation and refrigeration from the discovery of the Seebeck and Peltier effects in the nineteenth century through the introduction of semiconductor thermoelements in the mid-twentieth century to the more recent development of nanostructured materials....
Ionization and Ion Transport
A Primer for the Study of Non-Equilibrium, Low-Temperature Gas Discharges and Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The purpose of this text is to introduce engineering and science students to the basic underlying physics and chemistry concepts that form the foundation of plasma science and engineering. It is an accessible primer directed primarily at those students who, like the general public, simply do not understand...
by Nicolas A Pereyra
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book gives a rigorous yet 'physics-focused' introduction to mathematical logic that is geared towards natural science majors. We present the science major with a robust introduction to logic, focusing on the specific knowledge and skills that will unavoidably be needed in calculus topics and...
General Relativity
An Introduction to Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
This book is based on a set of 18 class-tested lectures delivered to fourth-year physics undergraduates at Grifï¬th University in Brisbane, and the book presents new discoveries by the Nobel-prize winning LIGO collaboration. The author begins with a review of special relativity and tensors and...
by Mojca Čepič
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Soon after she became involved in the didactics of physics, the author of this book realized that the transfer of new discoveries in physics into schools and to undergraduate programs is almost non-existent. Such an introduction is difficult as students' k
Quantum Chemistry
A Concise Introduction, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book provides non-specialists with a basic understanding ofthe underlying concepts of quantum chemistry. It is both a text for second or third-year undergraduates and a reference for researchers who need a quick introduction or refresher. All chemists and many biochemists, materials scientists,...
Beyond Curie
Four Women in Physics and Their Remarkable Discoveries, 1903 to 1963
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both...
by Michael Grabe
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Metrological data is known to be blurred by the imperfections of the measuring process. In retrospect, for about two centuries regular or constant errors were no focal point of experimental activities, only irregular or random error were. Today's notation of unknown systematic errors is in line with...
by Brian R Kent
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The world of single-board computing puts powerful coding tools in the palm of your hand. The portable Raspberry Pi computing platform with the power of Linux yields an exciting exploratory tool for beginning scientific computing.
Science and Computing with Raspberry Pi takes the enterprising...
by Nicolas A Pereyra
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This book gives a rigorous, physics focused, introduction to set theory that is geared towards natural science majors.
We present the science major with a robust introduction to set theory, focusing on the specific knowledge and skills that will unavoidably be needed in calculus topics and...
Tying Light in Knots
Applying Topology to Optics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Topology is the study of properties of geometrical objects that remain invariant as the object is bent, twisted, or otherwise continuously deformed. It has been an indispensable tool in particle physics and solid state physics for decades, but in recent years it has become increasingly relevant in...
by A F J Levi
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
The invention of the semiconductor laser along with silica glass fiber has enabled an incredible revolution in global communication infrastructure of direct benefit to all. Development of devices and system concepts that exploit the same fundamental light-matter interaction continues. Researchers...