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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This volume presents the state-of-the-art in selected topics across modern nuclear physics, covering fields of central importance to research and illustrating their connection to many different areas of physics.
It describes recent progress in the study of superheavy and exotic nuclei, which...
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...
Reasoning About Luck
Probability and Its Uses in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This book introduces college students and other readers to the uses of probability and statistics in the physical sciences, focusing on thermal and statistical physics and touching upon quantum physics. Widely praised as beautifully written and thoughtful, Reasoning About Luck explains concepts in...
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...
by John C Amson, Louis H Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book is a Festschrift for the 90th birthday of the physicist Pierre Noyes. The book is a representative selection of papers on the topics that have been central to the meetings over the last three decades of ANPA, the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association. ANPA was founded by Pierre Noyes...
Concepts in Particle Physics
A Concise Introduction to the Standard Model
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The 2013 discovery of the Higgs boson posed a challenge to both physics undergraduates and their instructors. Since particle physics is seldom taught at the undergraduate level, the question "what is the Higgs and why does its discovery matter?" is a common question among undergraduates....
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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:...
by Tom Rother
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book presents the Green’s function formalism in a basic way and demonstrates its usefulness for applications to several well-known problems in classical physics which are usually solved not by this formalism but other approaches. The book bridges the gap between applications of the Green’s...
Mathematical Methods in Physics
Distributions, Hilbert Space Operators, Variational Methods, and Applications in Quantum Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The second edition of this textbook presents the basic mathematical knowledge and skills that are needed for courses on modern theoretical physics, such as those on quantum mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, and related areas. The authors stress that learning mathematical physics is...
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...
Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications
2015 La Rábida International Scientific Meeting on Nuclear Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This volume covers invited papers presented during the La Rábida 2015 International Scientific Meeting on Nuclear Physics, which can be considered heir of a well known series of triennial international summer schools on Nuclear Physics organized from 1982 till 2003 by the Basic Nuclear Physics group...
Theory of Groups and Symmetries
Finite Groups, Lie Groups, and Lie Algebras
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The book presents the main approaches in study of algebraic structures of symmetries in models of theoretical and mathematical physics, namely groups and Lie algebras and their deformations. It covers the commonly encountered quantum groups (including Yangians). The second main goal of the book is...
Statistical Physics
Fundamentals and Application to Condensed Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals of statistical physics and its application to condensed matter. The combination of statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics has provided an understanding of properties of matter leading to spectacular technological innovations and discoveries...
by Shi-Dong Liang
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Quantum tunneling is an essential issue in quantum physics. Especially, the rapid development of nanotechnology in recent years promises a lot of applications in condensed matter physics, surface science and nanodevices, which are growing interests in fundamental issues, computational techniques and...