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by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book contains hundreds of colorful stories from the field of physics. Despite their entertaining appearance, they address several important and serious notions in this field. This book does not seek to replace school textbooks. Its purpose is to entice the reader to consciously observe physical...
Fifty Years of Nuclear BCS
Pairing in Finite Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This unique volume reviews more than fifty years of theoretical and experimental developments of the concept that properties of atomic nuclei up to a great extent are defined by the pair correlations of nuclear constituents — protons and neutrons. Such correlations in condensed matter are responsible...
by L R Flores Castillo, K Prokofiev
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The monumental discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC marked the beginning of a new era in the high energy physics. Although the particle spectrum of the Standard Model is now complete with the Higgs boson, the hierarchy problem
by Cheryl E. Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This thesis represents the first double differential measurement of quasi-elastic anti-neutrino scattering in the few GeV range--a region of substantial theoretical and experimental interest as it is the kinematic region where studies of charge-parity (CP) violation in the neutrino sector most...
Physics, Nature and Society
A Guide to Order and Complexity in Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us understand the boundaries between physics, on the one hand, and sociology, economics, and biology on the other. From cooperation and criticality to flock dynamics and fractals, the author...
by Georgi P. Tolstov
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Richard A. Silverman's series of translations of outstanding Russian textbooks and monographs is well-known to people in the fields of mathematics, physics, and engineering. The present book is another excellent text from this series, a valuable addition to the English-language literature on Fourier...
No Truth Except in the Details
Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline...
by Ganesan Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This volume is devoted to one of the fascinating things about stars: how they evolve as they age. This evolution is different for stars of different masses. How stars end their lives when their supply of energy is exhausted also depends on their masses. Interestingly, astronomers conjectured about...
by Volker Schomerus
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Since its conception in the 1960s, string theory has been hailed as one of the most promising routes we have to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. This book provides a concise introduction to string theory explaining central concepts, mathematical tools and covering recent developments...
Quantum Concepts in Physics
An Alternative Approach to the Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rather than following the standard...
Strange coincidences in your life.
Small curious events. Forebodings. Telepathy. Does it happen to you too? Quantum physics and the theory of synchronicity explain extrasensory phenomena.
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2019
From the earliest developments of thought, mankind believed that some significant coincidences were signs by which a higher philosophical or divine level sought to inter-dialogue with men.
In the last three centuries this had been erased from the new directions of science. Extraordinary coincidences...
MCAT Test Prep Physics Review--Exambusters Flash Cards--Workbook 3 of 3
MCAT Exam Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"MCAT Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: PHYSICS" 600 questions and answers. Sample problems. Topics: Metric System, Motion and Forces, Work and Energy, Fluids, Sound, Light and Optics, Static Electricity, D.C. and A.C. Circuits, Magnetism [==================] ADDITIONAL WORKBOOKS: "MCAT Prep Flashcard Workbook...
Finding Your Center
Explorations in Philosophy, New Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Finding Your Center: Explorations In Philosophy, New Physics, And Eastern Mysticism is a fascinating compilation which highlights many important aspects of life. The knowledge contained therein is reflective of the ever changing world in which we live. Each page is overflowing with a diverse spectrum...
by Kenro Miyamoto
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This new edition presents the essential theoretical and analytical methods needed to understand the recent fusion research of tokamak and alternate approaches. The author describes magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic theories of cold and hot plasmas in detail. The book covers new important topics for...