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by Jos Thijssen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
First published in 2007, this second edition describes the computational methods used in theoretical physics. New sections were added to cover finite element methods and lattice Boltzmann simulation, density functional theory, quantum molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulation, and diagonalisation...
Physics of Heavy Fermions
Heavy Fermions and Strongly Correlated Electrons Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
A large variety of materials prove to be fascinating in solid state and condensed matter physics. New materials create new physics, which is spearheaded by the international experimental expert, Prof Yoshichika Onuki. Among them, the f electrons of rare earth and actinide compounds typically exhibit...
by Mario Bunge
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This is not an introduction to physics but an analysis of its founda tions. Indeed, the aims of this book are: (1) to analyze the form and content of some of the key ideas of physics; (2) to formulate several basic physical theories in an explicit and orderly (i. e. , axiomatic) fashion; (3) to...
Doing Physics, Second Edition
How Physicists Take Hold of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology,...
Computational Physics
An Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulations of Matrix Field Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book is divided into two parts. In the first part we give an elementary introduction to computational physics consisting of 21 simulations which originated from a formal course of lectures and laboratory simulations delivered since 2010 to physics students at Annaba University. The second part...
Particles and the Universe
From the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book aims to present the history and developments of particle physics from the introduction of the notion of particles by the Ionian school until the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC in 2012. Neutrino experiments and particle accelerators where different particles have been discovered are...
by James E. Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
A historic snapshot of the field of plasma physics, this fifty-year-old volume offers an edited collection of papers by pioneering experts in the field. In addition to assisting students in their understanding of the foundations of classical plasma physics, it provides a source of historic context...
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures
19881999
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988. Theoretical high-energy physics dominates the subjects of the lectures, mirroring one of Klein's own main interests.
This single volume is a compilation of the unique...
by Glenn E Sjoden
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Foundations in Applied Nuclear Engineering Analysis (2nd Edition) covers a fast-paced one semester course to address concepts of modeling in mathematics, engineering analysis, and computational problem solving needed in subjects such as radiation interactions, heat transfer, reactor physics, radiation...
by Ferguson Cosgrove
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Exam Board: CCEA
Level: A-level
Subject: Physics
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018
Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers will improve exam technique to achieve higher grades
Written by examiners...
by Martin Schmaltz, Elena Pierpaoli
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2012, held in Boulder, Colorado, June 2012. The program comprises two parallel lecture series on particle physics and on cosmology. The particle physics lectures covers LHC related experimental techniques, phenomenology, as well as basics in physics...
Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics
Questions to the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
This book, written by researchers who had been professionals in accelerator physics before becoming leaders of groups in astroparticle physics, introduces both fields in a balanced and elementary way, requiring only a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics on the part of the reader.
The new...
Physics, Mathematics, and All that Quantum Jazz
Proceedings of the Summer Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This book is a collection of contributions from a Summer Workshop on “Physics, Mathematics, and All That Quantum Jazz”. Subjects of the symposium include quantum information theory, quantum annealing, Bose gases, and thermodynamics from a viewpoint of quantum physics. Contributions to this book...
Key Competences in Physics Teaching and Learning
Selected Contributions from the International Conference GIREP EPEC 2015, Wrocław Poland, 6–10 July 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book presents a selection of the best contributions to GIREP EPEC 2015, the Conference of the International Research Group on Physics Teaching (GIREP) and the European Physical Society’s Physics Education Division (EPS PED). It introduces readers interested in the field to the problem of identifying...