General Physics category: 2746 books
by Michael Mansfield, Colm O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Understanding Physics – Second edition is a comprehensive, yet compact, introductory physics textbook aimed at physics undergraduates and also at engineers and other scientists taking a general physics course. Written with today's students in mind, this text covers the core material required by...
Modern Physics
An Introductory Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
This second edition of the successful textbook, Modern Physics: An Introductory Text, preserves the unique blend of readability, scientific rigour and authenticity that made its predecessor so indispensible a text for non-physics science majors. As in the first edition, it sets out to present 20th...
Theoretical Concepts in Physics
An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
A highly original, and truly novel, approach to theoretical reasoning in physics. This book illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. It is intended to be a supplement to the final years of an undergraduate course in physics and assumes that...
by Kai S Lam
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This new (second) edition contains a general treatment of quantum field theory (QFT) in a simple scalar field setting in addition to the modern material on the applications of differential geometry and topology, group theory, and the theory of linear operators to physics found in the first edition....
Theory of Groups and Symmetries
Finite Groups, Lie Groups, and Lie Algebras
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The book presents the main approaches in study of algebraic structures of symmetries in models of theoretical and mathematical physics, namely groups and Lie algebras and their deformations. It covers the commonly encountered quantum groups (including Yangians). The second main goal of the book is...
Outside the Research Lab, Volume 3
Physics in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
The Outside the Research Lab series is a testament to the fact that the physics taught to high school and university students IS used in the real world.
This book explores the physics and technology inherent to a selection of sports which have caught the author's attention and fascination over...
Drawing Physics
2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Drawings and short essays offer engaging and accessible explanations of key ideas in physics, from triangulation to relativity and beyond.
Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and...
200 More Puzzling Physics Problems
With Hints and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Like its predecessor, 200 Puzzling Physics Problems, this book is aimed at strengthening students' grasp of the laws of physics by applying them to situations that are practical, and to problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than to brute-force methods and complex mathematics. The problems...
by P. John Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
This book is a comprehensive account of five extended modules covering the key branches of twentieth-century theoretical physics, taught by the author over a period of three decades to students on bachelor and master university degree courses in both physics and theoretical physics.
The modules...
Feynman Lectures Simplified 4B
The Best of Feynman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Feynman Simplified 4B is an unprecedented catalog and explanation of every key principle and important equation in all of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. This book is an encyclopedia of great physics, from the lectures of one of history’s most brilliant scientists.
In addition, this book...
by Jan Zaanen, Yan Liu, Ya-Wen Sun
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
A pioneering treatise presenting how the new mathematical techniques of holographic duality unify seemingly unrelated fields of physics. This innovative development morphs quantum field theory, general relativity and the renormalisation group into a single computational framework and this book is...
Unified Principles of Physics and Nature
Energy Fluctuation In Quantum Atoms, Black Holes, Stars, Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The principles presented in this publication unify gravity with the quantum atom. The many areas of focused research within the scientific community now have a clear harmonized path forward. There are fundamental reasons the nearly 100 year scientific quest to unify general relativity and quantum theories...
by Kenneth W Ford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017
This reissued version of the classic text Basic Physics will help teachers at both the high-school and college levels gain new insights into, and deeper understanding...
Reminiscences
A Journey through Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
A personal recount in areas of particle physics and related fields as a research physicist for over 50 years, Adrian Melissinos' insights into the ways that general research was carried out, as well as the evolution of particle physics from 1958 to 2008 will prove valuable to science history enthusiasts,...