General Physics category: 2746 books
by Boris V. Alexeev
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
The most important result obtained by Prof. B. Alexeev and reflected in the book is connected with new theory of transport processes in gases, plasma and liquids. It was shown by Prof. B. Alexeev that well-known Boltzmann equation, which is the basement of the classical kinetic theory, is wrong in...
by Martin H. Sadd, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Material Behavior offers a uniquely comprehensive introduction to topics like RVE theory, fabric tensor models, micropolar elasticity, elasticity with voids, nonlocal higher gradient elasticity and damage mechanics. Contemporary continuum mechanics research has been...
Relativistic Kinetic Theory
With Applications in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Relativistic kinetic theory has widespread application in astrophysics and cosmology. The interest has grown in recent years as experimentalists are now able to make reliable measurements on physical systems where relativistic effects are no longer negligible. This ambitious monograph is divided into...
Why You Hear What You Hear
An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Why You Hear What You Hear is the first book on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and perception of sound. The book makes possible a deep intuitive understanding of many aspects of sound, as opposed...
Cremona Violins
A Physicist's Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari(With DVD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Cremona violins occupy a unique and storied place in violin history. This book contains a brief account of that history — the rise and fall of the Cremonese art of violin making that dominated over two centuries. It is primarily devoted, however, to the physics behind violin acoustics, specifically...
Fusion
The Energy of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Unraveling the role of fusion in the universe has taken almost a century since Einstein's proof of the equivalence of energy and matter in 1905. The discovery that fusion reactions are responsible for the building of the light elements in the "Big Bang" and the subsequent development of...
by Ricard Solé
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Phase transitions--changes between different states of organization in a complex system--have long helped to explain physics concepts, such as why water freezes into a solid or boils to become a gas. How might phase transitions shed light on important problems in biological and ecological complex...
Beyond Belief
Randomness, Prediction and Explanation in Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
How can we predict and explain the phenomena of nature? What are the limits to this knowledge process? The central issues of prediction, explanation, and mathematical modeling, which underlie all scientific activity, were the focus of a conference organized by the Swedish Council for the Planning...
No Wonder You Wonder!
Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book explores and explains scientific mysteries and principles, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and an abundance of illustrations. Chapters are short, but give an understanding of technology and science not available elsewhere. Questions include:
• What holds a satellite up while...
by Harry J. Lipkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
The "pedestrian approach" was developed to describe some essentially simple experimental results and their theoretical implications in plain language. In this graduate-level text, Harry J. Lipkin presents simply, but without oversimplification, the aspects of beta decay that can be understood...
by Richard E. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Fluid dynamics, the behavior of liquids and gases, is a field of broad impact that encompasses aspects of physics, engineering, oceanography, and meteorology. Full understanding demands fluency in higher mathematics, the only language of fluid dynamics. This introductory text is geared toward advanced...
by J. Willard Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Written by J. Willard Gibbs, the most distinguished American mathematical physicist of the nineteenth century, this book was the first to bring together and arrange in logical order the works of Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs himself. The lucid, advanced-level text remains a valuable collection...
One Hundred Years of Pressure
Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth...
François Arago
A 19th Century French Humanist and Pioneer in Astrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
François Arago, the first to show in 1810 that the surface of the Sun and stars is made of incandescent gas and not solid or liquid, was a prominent physicist of the 19th century. He used his considerable influence to help Fresnel, Ampere and others develop their ideas and make themselves known....