Physics category: 13946 books
From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles
A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity).
The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes...
From Newton to Mandelbrot
A Primer in Theoretical Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This textbook takes the reader on a tour of the most important landmarks of theoretical physics: classical, quantum, and statistical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics, as well as the most modern and exciting of all: elementary particles and the physics of fractals. The second edition has been...
Statistical Physics of Complex Systems
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This course-tested primer provides graduate students and non-specialists with a basic understanding of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and demonstrates their wide range of applications to interdisciplinary topics in the field of complex system sciences, including selected aspects of...
by Morton Hamermesh
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
"A remarkably intelligible survey . . . well organized, well written and very clear throughout." — Mathematical Reviews
This excellent text, long considered one of the best-written, most skillful expositions of group theory and its physical applications, is directed primarily to advanced...
by M.K. Sundaresan
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Literally thousands of elementary particles have been discovered over the last 50 years, their properties measured, relationships systematized, and existence and behavior explained in a myriad of cleverly constructed theories. As the field has grown so impressively, so has its jargon. Until now, scientists...
Modern Problems of Molecular Physics
Selected Reviews from the 7th International Conference “Physics of Liquid Matter: Modern Problems”, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 27 ̶ 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book presents a collection of selected lectures discussing current problems in molecular physics and reviews the main cutting-edge advances in condensed and soft matter physics. It offers deep insights and a powerful basis for scientists and engineers to study complicated problems in physics,...
High-Energy-Density Physics
Foundation of Inertial Fusion and Experimental Astrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per hour), temperatures of millions of degrees, and pressures that exceed 100 million atmospheres. This title surveys the production of high-energy-density conditions, the fundamental...
by Peter W. Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 199, the latest release in a series that merges two long-running serials, Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor...
Modern Physics
The Quantum Physics of Atoms, Solids, and Nuclei: Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This introduction to the concepts and methods of quantum mechanics employs the analysis of one-dimensional problems to offer students a quantitative understanding of atomic, molecular, solid-state, and nuclear physics. Applications of these concepts and methods help answer the most intriguing questions...
by Martinus J G Veltman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for...
by Nicola Cabibbo, Luciano Maiani, Omar Benhar
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Written by world-leading experts in particle physics, this new book from Luciano Maiani and Omar Benhar, with contributions from the late Nicola Cabibbo, is based on Feynman’s path integrals. Key elements of gauge theories are described—Feynman diagrams, gauge-fixing, Faddeev-Popov ghosts—as...
by John L. Heilbron
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
This is a collection of technical papers in the foundations and the philoso It takes both "foundations" phy of physics with emphasis on the former. and "philosophy" in their narrow technical senses but it construes "physics" lato sensu, as including all the sciences...
by Tom W B Kibble, Frank H Berkshire
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
This is the fifth edition of a well-established textbook. It is intended to provide a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics, an old subject that is at the base of all of physics, but in which there has also in recent years been rapid development. The...