General Physics category: 2746 books
Advanced Modern Physics
Solutions to Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized in the twentieth century — the era of "modern physics". Three texts presenting the foundations and frontiers of modern physics have been published by the second author. Many problems are included in these books. The current authors...
Statistical Plasma Physics, Volume II
Condensed Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The aim of this book is to elucidate a number of basic topics in physics of dense plasmas that interface with condensed matter physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. The different plasmas examined here include astrophysical dense plasmas - like those found in the interiors, surfaces,...
Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
The Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions is one of the best tested theories in physics. It has been found to be in remarkable agreement with experiment, and its validity at the quantum level has been successfully probed in the electroweak sector. In spite of its experimental successes,...
by Lorcan M Folan, Vladimir I Tsifrinovich, Gennady P Berman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
A huge chasm has developed between modern science and undergraduate education. The result of this chasm is that students who are graduating from college are unable to exploit the many opportunities offered by modern science and technology. Modern science and technology widely uses the methods of classical...
by Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Jean-Claude G. Bunzli, Diploma in chemical engineering (EPFL
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths is a continuous series of books covering all aspects of rare earth science, including chemistry, life sciences, materials science, and physics.
The main emphasis of the handbook is on rare earth elements [Sc, Y and the lanthanides (La through...
by Arnab Rai Choudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate students, before they delve into more specialized volumes. Assuming background knowledge at the level of a...
David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898–1918)
From Grundlagen der Geometrie to Grundlagen der Physik
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
David Hilbert (1862-1943) was the most influential mathematician of the early twentieth century and, together with Henri Poincaré, the last mathematical universalist. His main known areas of research and influence were in pure mathematics (algebra, number theory, geometry, integral equations and...
A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics
Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents a perspective on the history of theoretical physics over the past two hundreds years. It comprises essays on the history of pre-Maxwellian electrodynamics, of Maxwell's and Hertz's field theories, and of the present century's relativity and quantum physics. A common thread across...
Physics Over Easy
Breakfasts with Beth and Physics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
During a sequence of meals, the author relates the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand conversations with his wife Beth. Beginning with the studies of motion by Galileo and Newton through to the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics in the 20th century, all important...
by Peter Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book attempts to explain the core of physics, the origin of everything and anything. It explains why physics at the most fundamental level, and especially quantum mechanics, has moved away from naïve realism towards abstraction, and how this means that we can begin to answer some of the most...
Particle Panic!
How Popular Media and Popularized Science Feed Public Fears of Particle Accelerator Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting the end of the world will be caused by particle accelerators. Rather than allay such fears, public pronouncements by particle scientists themselves often unwittingly fan the flames of hysteria.
This...
Statistical Physics of Dense Plasmas
Elementary Processes and Phase Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
This authoritative text offers a complete overview on the statistical mechanics and electrodynamics of physical processes in dense plasma systems. The author emphasizes laboratory-based experiments and astrophysical observations of plasma phenomena, elucidated through the fundamentals. The coverage...
by B V R Chowdari
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) is a unique, single-subject, practical and theory-based individual competition in the field of physics. It was developed to provide young Asian students with a platform to display their physics knowledge. It is the celebration of the best in pre-university physics.
Each...
by Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory...