Physics category: 13946 books
Quantum Physics
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and with these discoveries believed they could predict the internal behavior of the atom. However, once their predictions were compared to the results of experiments in the real world, it became clear that...
by Frederick Bueche, Eugene Hecht
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The ideal review for your college physics course
More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum’s Outlines for their expert knowledge and helpful solved problems. Written by renowned experts in their respective fields, Schaum’s Outlines cover everything from math to science, nursing...
Foundations of Solid State Physics
Dimensionality and Symmetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
An essential guide to solid state physics through the lens of dimensionality and symmetry
Foundations of Solid State Physics introduces the essential topics of solid state physics as taught globally with a focus on understanding the properties of solids from the viewpoint of dimensionality...
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo
A Guide to Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo: A guide to particle physics is a brief and ambitious expedition into the remarkably simple ingredients of all the wonders of nature. With hardly a mathematical formula, Professor Cindy Schwarz clearly explains the language and much of the substance of elementary particle...
by Garrett Biehle
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Comprehensive, Rigorous Prep for MCAT Physics.
The MCAT Physics Book offers the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of MCAT physics available. Including,
* 49 MCAT-style passages
* 500 MCAT-style practice problems! and detailed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
This ebook presents a compilation of authoritative documents providing an excellent, up-to-date overview of the research work of one of America's top research organizations, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). NRL has been involved in many historic scientific achievements, including gamma-ray radiography,...
Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics
Quarks and Gluons / Atomic Nuclei / Relativity and Cosmology / Biological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Nuclear physics is an exciting, broadly faceted field. It spans a wide range of topics, reaching from nuclear structure physics to high-energy physics, astrophysics and medical physics (heavy ion tumor therapy). New developments are presented in this volume and the
status of research is reviewed....
Theoretical Concepts in Physics
An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
A highly original, and truly novel, approach to theoretical reasoning in physics. This book illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. It is intended to be a supplement to the final years of an undergraduate course in physics and assumes that...
From Aristotle to Schrödinger
The Curiosity of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics,...
Basic Concepts in Physics
From the Cosmos to Quarks
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
"Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks" is the outcome of the authors' long and varied teaching experience in different countries and for different audiences, and gives an accessible and eminently readable introduction to all the main ideas of modern physics. The book’s...
Nuclear and Particle Physics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Updated and expanded edition of this well-known Physics textbook provides an excellent Undergraduate introduction to the field
This new edition of Nuclear and Particle Physics continues the standards established by its predecessors, offering a comprehensive and highly readable overview of both...
by Vijay Tymms
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Newtonian mechanics is a cornerstone topic in physics. Regardless of the path an aspiring physicist takes, an intimate and intuitive understanding of how objects behave within Newton's law of motion is essential.
Yet the transition from high school physics to university level physics can be...
by Gary P. Zank
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
“Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics” is aimed at graduate level students to provide the necessary mathematical and physics background to understand the transport of gases, charged particle gases, energetic charged particles, turbulence, and radiation in an astrophysical...
Deep Learning in Introductory Physics
Exploratory Studies of Model?Based Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Deep Learning in Introductory Physics: Exploratory Studies of Model?Based Reasoning is concerned with the broad question of how students learn physics in a model?centered classroom. The diverse, creative, and sometimes unexpected ways students construct models, and deal with intellectual conflict, provide...