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by Robert N. Cahn, Gerson Goldhaber
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons....
Thermodynamics and Equations of State for Matter
From Ideal Gas to Quark-Gluon Plasma
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The monograph presents a comparative analysis of different thermodynamic models of the equations of state. The basic ideological premises of the theoretical methods and the experiment are considered. The principal attention is on the description of states that are of greatest interest for the physics...
Solid State Quantum Information — An Advanced Textbook
Quantum Aspect of Many-Body Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This book on solid state physics has been written with an emphasis on recent developments in quantum many-body physics approaches. It starts by covering the classical theory of solids and electrons and describes how this classical model has failed. The authors then present the quantum mechanical model...
by Peter W. Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials—Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. The series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Nuclear Science and Technology, Volume 2: Neutron Physics provides information pertinent to neutron and reactor physics. This book presents a discussion of the general area of energy sources, surveying the fusion problem.
Organized into 16 chapters, this volume starts with an overview of the broad...
The Earth’s Electric Field
Sources from Sun to Mud
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The Earth’s Electric Field provides you with an integrated and comprehensive picture of the generation of the terrestrial electric fields, their dynamics and how they couple/propagate through the medium. The Earth’s Electric Field provides basic principles of terrestrial electric field related...
by Florian Scheck
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Scheck’s Quantum Physics presents a comprehensive introductory treatment, ideally suited for a two-semester course. Part One covers the basic principles and prime applications of quantum mechanics, from the uncertainty relations to many-body systems. Part Two introduces to relativistic quantum field...
by Marc Christopher Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This thesis studies collider phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It also explores in detail advanced topics related to Higgs boson and supersymmetry – one of the most exciting and well-motivated streams in particle physics. In particular, it finds...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book is a rewritten and annotated version of Leo P. Kadanoff and Gordon Baym’s lectures that were presented in the book Quantum Statistical Mechanics: Green’s Function Methods in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Problems. The lectures were devoted to a discussion on the use of thermodynamic...
by Jayanta Bhattacharjee, Dhruba Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In this new textbook, a number of unusual applications are discussed in addition to the usual topics covered in a course on Statistical Physics. Examples are: statistical mechanics of powders, Peierls instability, graphene, Bose-Einstein condensates in a trap, Casimir effect and the quantum Hall effect....
Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy
With Comprehensive Development of the Physical Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
This book presents experiments which will teach physics relevant to astronomy. The astronomer, as instructor, frequently faces this need when his college or university has no astronomy department and any astronomy course is taught in the physics department. The physicist, as instructor, will find...
When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11
Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
There are deep and fascinating links between heavy metal and quantum physics. No, really!
While teaching at the University of Nottingham, physicist Philip Moriarty noticed something odd, a surprising number of his students were heavily into metal music. Colleagues, too: a Venn diagram of physicists...
Projectile Science
The Physics Behind Kicking a Field Goal and Launching a Rocket with Science Activities for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
What are the forces behind ballistics? Why do rocks and rockets soar through the air in an arch?
The game is on the line. Suddenly, you hear the crack of a bat and the roar of crowd. Where will the ball land? How far will it travel? Is it a home run?
You might think that hitting a home...
Elementary Particle Physics
Quantum Field Theory and Particles V1
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Meeting the need for a coherently written and comprehensive compendium combining field theory and particle physics for advanced students and researchers, this book directly links the theory to the experiments. It is clearly divided into two sections covering approaches to field theory and the standard...