General Physics category: 2746 books
Foundations of High-Energy-Density Physics
Physical Processes of Matter at Extreme Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
High-energy-density physics explores the dynamics of matter at extreme conditions. This encompasses temperatures and densities far greater than we experience on Earth. It applies to normal stars, exploding stars, active galaxies, and planetary interiors. High-energy-density matter is found on Earth...
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...
Nanodesign
Some Basic Questions
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
There is no doubt that nanoscience will be the dominant direction for technology in this century, and that this science will influence our lives to a large extent as well as open completely new perspectives on all scientific and technological disciplines. To be able to produce optimal nanosystems...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Following an explosion of research on Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) ignited by demonstration of the effect by 2001 Nobel prize winners Cornell, Wieman and Ketterle, this book surveys the field of BEC studies. Written by experts in the field, it focuses on Bose–Einstein condensation as a universal...
Physics is…
The Physicist Explores Attributes of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
He's back! The physicist returns with an entirely new compilation of questions and answers from his long-lived website where laypeople can ask questions about anything physics related. This book focuses on adjectives (practical, beautiful, surprising, cool, frivolous) instead of nouns like the first...
Handbook of X-ray Imaging
Physics and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Containing chapter contributions from over 130 experts, this unique publication is the first handbook dedicated to the physics and technology of X-ray imaging, offering extensive coverage of the field. This highly comprehensive work is edited by one of the world’s leading experts in X-ray imaging physics...
Let There Be Light
The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
This book is the first of its kind to devote itself at this level to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry, and universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences...
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,...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The aim of this book is to analyse historical problems related to the use of mathematics in physics as well as to the use of physics in mathematics and to investigate Mathematical Physics as precisely the new discipline which is concerned with this dialectical link itself. So the main question is:...
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...
Foundations of Mathematics and Physics One Century After Hilbert
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
This book explores the rich and deep interplay between mathematics and physics one century after David Hilbert’s works from 1891 to 1933, published by Springer in six volumes. The most prominent scientists in various domains of these disciplines contribute to this volume providing insight to their...
Computational Problems for Physics
With Guided Solutions Using Python
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Our future scientists and professionals must be conversant in computational techniques. In order to facilitate integration of computer methods into existing physics courses, this textbook offers a large number of worked examples and problems with fully guided solutions in Python as well as other languages...