General Physics category: 2746 books
Reductionism
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Ever since the ancient Greeks conceived of the atom, humans have sought the smallest ingredients of our existence. In the past century, the use of reductionism to understand behavior has gained steam as the quantum universe and the workings of the human mind have been uncovered; still there are those...
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by Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Mysterious Universe is a science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans. It is an expanded version of the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1930, and begins with a full-page citation of the famous passage in Plato’s Republic, Book VII, laying out the allegory...
by Francesca Biagioli
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant famously characterized space and time as a priori forms of intuitions, which lie at the foundation of mathematical...
by Martin Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This advanced undergraduate and graduate-level text introduces the power of operator theory as a tool in the study of quantum mechanics, assuming only a working knowledge of advanced calculus and no background in physics. The author presents a few simple postulates describing quantum theory, gradually...
The Unknown as an Engine for Science
An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This book explores the limits of our knowledge. The author shows how uncertainty and indefiniteness not only define the borders confining our understanding, but how they feed into the process of discovery and help to push back these borders. Starting with physics the author collects examples from...
Varieties of Scientific Realism
Objectivity and Truth in Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades. Authoritative...
Dear Professor Dyson
Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
IN THE NEWSExciting News: Book Published From "Science, Technology and Society" ClassThe Echo, 3 November 2016
Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed...
Relativity from Lorentz to Einstein.
A Guide for Beginners, Perplexed and Experimental Scientists.
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Everyone knows that Einstein’s special relativity contains a theory of time measurements, which are no longer conceived as absolute, but are related to the state of motion of the clock and to the point of view of the observer, and the same happens to space measurements. Everyone also knows that...
by David L Price, Felix Fernandez-Alonso
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Neutron Scattering - Magnetic and Quantum Phenomena provides detailed coverage of the application of neutron scattering in condensed matter research. The book's primary aim is to enable researchers in a particular area to identify the aspects of their work where neutron scattering techniques might...
by David L. Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
One of the major experimental difficulties in studying materials at extreme temperatures is unwanted contamination of the sample through contact with the container. This can be avoided by suspending the sample through levitation. This technique also makes metastable states of matter accessible, opening...
Liquid Vapor Phase Change Phenomena
An Introduction to the Thermophysics of Vaporization and Condensation Processes in Heat Transfer Equipment, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Liquid-Vapor Phase-Change Phenomena presents the basic thermophysics and transport principles that underlie the mechanisms of condensation and vaporization processes. The text has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent innovations in research and to strengthen the fundamental focus of the first...
Disordered Semiconductors Second Edition
Physics and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Devices based on disordered semiconductors have wide applications. It is difficult to imagine modern life without printers and copiers, LCD monitors and TVs, optical disks, economical solar cells, and many other devices based on disordered semiconductors. However, nowadays books that discuss disordered (amorphous, nanocrystalline, microcrystalline)
Defect Recognition and Image Processing in Semiconductors 1997
Proceedings of the seventh conference on Defect Recognition and Image Processing, Berlin, September 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Defect Recognition and Image Processing in Semiconductors 1997 provides a valuable overview of current techniques used to assess, monitor, and characterize defects from the atomic scale to inhomogeneities in complete silicon wafers. This volume addresses advances in defect analyzing techniques and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Handbook of Magnetic Materials, Volume 26, covers the expansion of magnetism over the last few decades and its applications in research, notably the magnetism of several classes of novel materials that share the presence of magnetic moments with truly ferromagnetic materials. The book is an ideal...