Physics

Description This is a calculus-based textbook on general physics. It contains all the major subjects covered in an intermediate or advanced cou...

Description This is a book presenting to a wide audience of readers, ranging from fans of science to professional researchers, some of the auth...

Description This research monograph provides a brief overview of the authors' research in the area of ordered granular media over the last deca...

Description Particle Physics and High Energy Physics have stagnated since the early 1970s. Now, the underlying principle of reductionism — so s...

Description This book contains a systematic and pedagogical exposition of recent developments in particle physics and cosmology. It starts wit...

Description Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore: Volume 34 This volume is to pique the...

Description About the Author In modern physics, various fundamental problems have become topics of ongoing debate. There was the 20th century c...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Computational Material Science (1,266 KB) The purpose of this book is two fold. First to explain the p...

Description About the Authors Our original objective in writing this book was to demonstrate how the concept of the equation of motion of a Bro...

Description About the Author The main focus of this year's Proceedings of the 53rd Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics is ...

Description The monumental discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC marked the beginning of a new era in the high energy physics. Although the p...

Description The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting was held from the 19th to the 22nd of November, 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Prof...

Description "Big" science and advanced technology are known to cross-fertilize. This book emphasizes the interplay between particle physics and...

Description This book is the distilled essence of the author teaching statistical mechanics to juniors, seniors and graduate students for over ...

Description About the Author The book is devoted to the study of the correlation effects in many-particle systems. It presents the advanced met...

Description This book provides a modern introduction to the study of star formation, at a level suitable for graduate students or advanced unde...

Description Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applic...

Description This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926–2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students, postdocs...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (55 KB)Chapter I.1: Schrödinger Equation (214 KB)Chapter II.1: Background on Heterostructures (214 KB)Cha...

Description This book on quantum optics is from the point of view of an experimentalist. It approaches the theory of quantum optics with the la...

Description The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks. The dynamics of electrons and quarks is described by the Standard M...

Description This book is the solution manual to the textbook "A Modern Course in University Physics". It contains solutions to all the problems...

Description This book starts from a set of common basic principles to establish the basic formalisms of all disciplines of fundamental physics,...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Outline of the Physics (512 KB) The role of physics in our culture is examined from the time of Newton ...

Description Berry phase has been widely used in condensed matter physics in the past two decades. This volume is a timely collection of essenti...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Ahmed Zewail: Ultra-Scientist and Citizen (1,519 KB) A compilation of wonderful tributes to the late Ah...

Description The volume of these proceedings is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as e...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Authors This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational an...

Description A timely presentation of new results, challenges, and opportunities in the quickly developing field of nuclear cluster physics, pre...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Aspects of the Newtonian Methodology (224 KB) This book looks at how Newton's theories can be linked to...

Description This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube. The aim of the book is t...

Description In honor of one of the most prolific and exciting scientists of the second half of the last century, a memorial meeting was organiz...

Stanley Mandelstam (1928–2016) was one of the most influential and respected particle theorists. Coming as a young chemical engineer from South Afr...

Description This book covers the necessary aspects of mathematics for graduate students in physics and engineering. Advanced undergraduate stud...

Description This volume presents a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in loop quantum gravity from the perspective of younger leading researchers...

Description About the Author Light and Vacuum presents a synthesis of selected fundamental topics of electromagnetic wave theory and quantum el...

Description Since the invention of the laser, the variety of lasers and their uses have grown at a phenomenal rate. Scientists and engineers ha...

Description This book is written from the viewpoint that a deep connection exists between cosmology and particle physics. It presents the resul...

Description This book deals with quantum field theory, the language of modern elementary particles physics. Based on university lectures given ...

Description It is important for every physicist today to have a working knowledge of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Introduction to G...

Description Geophysics is concerned with the physical processes and properties of the Earth and its surrounding environment, and with the use o...

Description Stoicheiosis Astronomike ("Elements of Astronomy") is a late Byzantine comprehensive introduction to Astronomy. It was written by a...

Description About the Author It is interesting to analyze the application of mid-infrared (MIR, 1000–5000 nm) radiation to study the dynamics o...

Description About the Author In the summer of 2006, two books attacking string theory—a prominent theory in physics—appeared: Peter Woit's Not ...

Description LIGO's recent discovery of gravitational waves was headline news around the world. Many people will want to understand more about w...