Physics category: 13946 books
by Ennio Arimondo, Chun C. Lin, Susanne F. Yelin
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics provides a comprehensive compilation of recent developments in a field that is in a state of rapid growth, as new experimental and theoretical techniques are used on many problems, both old and new.
Topics covered include related applied areas,...
by Frederick W. Byron Jr., Robert W. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This textbook is designed to complement graduate-level physics texts in classical mechanics, electricity, magnetism, and quantum mechanics. Organized around the central concept of a vector space, the book includes numerous physical applications in the body of the text as well as many problems of a...
What was Mechanical about Mechanics
The Concept of Force between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The Age of Reason is left the Dark Ages of the history of mechanics. Clifford A. Truesdell) 1. 1 THE INVISIBLE TRUTH OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS There are some questions that physics since the days of Newton simply cannot an swer. Perhaps the most important of these can be categorized as 'questions of...
by Horacio S Wio, Roberto R Deza, Juan M López
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This book aims to provide a compact and unified introduction to the most important aspects in the physics of non-equilibrium systems. It first introduces stochastic processes and some modern tools and concepts that have proved their usefulness to deal with non-equilibrium systems from a purely probabilistic...
Nonlinear Optical and Atomic Systems
At the Interface of Physics and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Focusing on the interface between mathematics and physics, this book offers an introduction to the physics, the mathematics, and the numerical simulation of nonlinear systems in optics and atomic physics. The text covers a wide spectrum of current research on the subject, which is an extremely active...
by Ken Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Worth Tens of Trillions of Dollars! How outlandish. Seems incredible. Must be braggadocio. But, it is true. Contained within this tome are the first steps in an almost unlimited supply of gold, diamonds and gasoline (liquid long chain hydrocarbons.) Also, within are avenues for indentifying, NEOs,...
by Alexander Leonidovich Kuzemsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The book is devoted to the study of the correlation effects in many-particle systems. It presents the advanced methods of quantum statistical mechanics (equilibrium and nonequilibrium), and shows their effectiveness and operational ability in applications to problems of quantum solid-state theory,...
String Theory and Particle Physics
An Introduction to String Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
String theory is one of the most active branches of theoretical physics and has the potential to provide a unified description of all known particles and interactions. This book is a systematic introduction to the subject, focused on the detailed description of how string theory is connected to the...
What We Would Like LHC to Give Us
Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book is the proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2012, 50th Course — ERICE, 23 June 2013 – 2 July 2012. This course was devoted to the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Subnuclear Physics School which was started in 1961 by Antonino Zichichi with John...
The Large Hadron Collider
The Greatest Adventure in Town and Ten Reasons Why it Matters, as Illustrated by the ATLAS Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
When the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN hit the headlines in 2012, the world was stunned by this achievement of modern science. Less well appreciated, however, were the many ways in which this benefited wider society.
The Large Hadron Collider — The Greatest Adventure in Town charts...
by Peter Mittelstaedt
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Newton’s classical physics and its underlying ontology are loaded with several metaphysical hypotheses that cannot be justified by rational reasoning nor by experimental evidence. Furthermore, it is well known that some of these hypotheses are not contained in the great theories of Modern Physics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
This book discusses in detail the recent trends in Computational Physics, Nano-physics and Devices Technology. Numerous modern devices with very high accuracy, are explored In conditions such as longevity and extended possibilities to work in wide temperature and pressure ranges, aggressive media,...
by James E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A practical guide to the basic physics that radiation protection professionals need
A much-needed working resource for health physicists and other radiation protection professionals, this volume presents clear, thorough, up-to-date explanations of the basic physics necessary to address real-world...
Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics
Progress in Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics: Progress in Methods and Applications is a collection of 33 selected papers from the scientific contributions presented at the 16th International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics (QSCP-XVI), held at Ishikawa Prefecture Museum of Art in Kanazawa,...