General Physics category: 2746 books
by James J Kolata
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, published in 1915, made a remarkable prediction: gravitational radiation.
Just like light (electromagnetic radiation), gravity could travel through space as a wave and affect any objects it encounters by alternately compressing and expanding them....
Causality Rules
A Light Treatise on Dispersion Relations and Sum Rules
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Scattering of light by light is a fundamental process arising at the quantum level through vacuum fluctuations. This short book will explain how, remarkably enough, this quantum process can entirely be described in terms classical quantities. This description is derived from general principles, such...
by Dennis H. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Polarized light is a pervasive influence in our world—and scientists and engineers in a variety of fields require the tools to understand, measure, and apply it to their advantage. Offering an in-depth examination of the subject and a description of its applications, Polarized Light, Third Edition...
by David Ginsburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Treats certain problems and methods of theoretical physics and astrophysics which are associated with microscopic and macroscopic electrodynamics and material concerning the theory of transition radiation and transition scattering.
by Nathaniel Durham
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
A set of partial theories, some from older works, by the author, but mostly, new. This book, as an earlier work, was meant to explain the known forces of nature and existence in general. This book is a set of ideas that also percursed the ideas in "A New Mechanics Of Physics."
by D. P. Woodruff
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
DescriptionSurface Alloys and Alloy Surfaces is concerned with the structural, compositional, electronic and chemical properties of the surfaces of solids in which the surface layers, at least are alloyed. Two different categories of system are covered - the surfaces of bulk alloys (alloy surfaces) and...
Effective Theories in Physics
From Planetary Orbits to Elementary Particle Masses
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
There is significant interest in the Philosophy of Science community to understand the role that "effective theories" have in the work of forefront science. The ideas of effective theories have been implicit in science for a long time, but have only been articulated well in the last few...
by N H March, G G N Angilella
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The book reviews several theoretical, mostly exactly solvable, models for selected systems in condensed states of matter, including the solid, liquid, and disordered states, and for systems of few or many bodies, both with boson, fermion, or anyon statistics. Some attention is devoted to models for...
CdTe and Related Compounds; Physics, Defects, Hetero- and Nano-structures, Crystal Growth, Surfaces and Applications
Physics, CdTe-based Nanostructures, CdTe-based Semimagnetic Semiconductors, Defects
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Almost thirty years after the remarkable monograph of K. Zanio and the numerous conferences and articles dedicated since that time to CdTe and CdZnTe, after all the significant progresses in that field and the increasing interest in these materials for several extremely attractive industrial applications,...
by Panos Photinos
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Musical Sound, Instruments, and Equipment' offers a basic understanding of sound, musical instruments and music equipment, geared towards a general audience and non-science majors. The book begins with an introduction of the fundamental properties of sound waves, and the perception of the characteristics...
Musical Sound
An Introduction to the Physics of Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This text has been out of print since 1990; it was originally published by Solomon Press in 1987. Several experts in the field have verified that the information in the book remains constant; nothing has, or will, change in the basic science of musical sound. It explains the science of musical sound...
Emergent Complexity from Nonlinearity, in Physics, Engineering and the Life Sciences
Proceedings of the XXIII International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, Como, Italy, 7-11 September 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book collects contributions to the XXIII international conference “Nonlinear dynamics of electronic systems”. Topics range from non-linearity in electronic circuits to synchronisation effects in complex networks to biological systems, neural dynamics and the complex organisation of the brain....
Stochastic Equations through the Eye of the Physicist
Basic Concepts, Exact Results and Asymptotic Approximations
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
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. The well known example of Brownian particle suspended in...
by Stephen B. Pope
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
This is a graduate text on turbulent flows, an important topic in fluid dynamics. It is up-to-date, comprehensive, designed for teaching, and is based on a course taught by the author at Cornell University for a number of years. The book consists of two parts followed by a number of appendices. Part...