General Physics category: 2746 books
Great Minds
Reflections of 111 Top Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s, Istvan, Balazs, and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics, chemistry, materials, and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a variety of publications, including Chemical Intelligencer, Mathematical Intelligencer,...
by Bernhard Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The Handbook of Ion Sources delivers the data needed for daily work with ion sources. It also gives information for the selection of a suitable ion source and ion production method for a specific application.
The Handbook concentrates on practical aspects and introduces the principle function of ion...
Selective Photonic Disinfection
A Ray of Hope in the War Against Pathogens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Pathogens such as viruses and bacteria are among the greatest threats to human health worldwide. In today's era of population growth and international travel, new technologies are desperately needed to combat the spread of known and emerging pathogens.
This book presents a new concept for pathogen...
by Yurii Bolotin, Anatoli Tur, Vladimir Yanovsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
This book offers a short and concise introduction to the many facets of chaos theory.
While the study of chaotic behavior in nonlinear, dynamical systems is a well-established research field with ramifications in all areas of science, there is a lot to be learnt about how chaos can be controlled...
Cartesian Spacetime
Descartes’ Physics and the Relational Theory of Space and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Although Descartes' natural philosophy marked an advance in the development of modern science, many critics over the years, such as Newton, have rejected his particular `relational' theory of space and motion. Nevertheless, it is also true that most historians and philosophers have not sufficiently...
From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics
A Case for Structural Realism
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between...
The Meaning of the Wave Function
In Search of the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
At the heart of quantum mechanics lies the wave function, a powerful but mysterious mathematical object which has been a hot topic of debate from its earliest stages. Covering much of the recent debate and providing a comprehensive and critical review of competing approaches, this ambitious text provides...
Conceptual Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics provides a detailed view of the conceptual foundations and problems of quantum physics, and a clear and comprehensive account of the fundamental physical implications of the quantum formalism. This book deals with nonseparability, hidden variable theories,...
Information Thermodynamics on Causal Networks and its Application to Biochemical Signal Transduction
Information Thermodynamics on Causal Networks and its Application to Biochemical Signal Transduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
In this book the author presents a general formalism of nonequilibrium thermodynamics with complex information flows induced by interactions among multiple fluctuating systems.
The author has generalized stochastic thermodynamics with information by using a graphical theory. Characterizing...
by E. Walter Maunder
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This is a concise but comprehensive look at astronomy, including not just the science behind it but the history of past astronomers, including before the use of telescopes.
From the beginning:
“The plan of the present series requires each volume to be complete in about eighty small...
Predicting the Future
Completing Models of Observed Complex Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Through the development of an exact path integral for use in transferring information from observations to a model of the observed system, the author provides a general framework for the discussion of model building and evaluation across disciplines. Through many illustrative examples drawn from models...
by Robert Stawell Ball
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became...
by Tzuchien Tho
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz’s dynamics project (c. 1676-1700) that contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the concepts of physical causality in Leibniz’s work and 17th century physics. It argues that Leibniz’s theory of forces privileges the causal...
Heat
The Nature of Temperature and Most Other Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Heat culminates the prior five works of Marc E. King. While King admits this text is more technical than he would like in order to appeal to as many readers as possible, the text truly follows the important everyday reader concepts from Changing Your Mind and Cold Fusion, Dignity of Mind. King says...