Physics

Description About the Author Beginning with the famous Olber's paradox, paradoxes such as the missing mass, dark energy, baryon to photon ratio...

Description This book is divided into two parts. In the first part we give an elementary introduction to computational physics consisting of 21...

Description Dissipative forces play an important role in problems of classical as well as quantum mechanics. Since these forces are not among t...

Description It has been over 100 years since the presentation of the Theory of General Relativity by Albert Einstein, in its final formulation,...

Description This book describes detection techniques used to search for and analyze gravitational waves (GW). It covers the whole domain of GW ...

Description What is the dark matter that fills the Universe and binds together galaxies? How was it produced? What are its interactions and par...

Description This book covers recent developments in the covariant formulation of quantum gravity. Developed in the 1960s by Feynman and DeWitt,...

Description On August 20, 2015, a symposium at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was held in honor of Berni J. Alder's 90th birthday. Many...

Description This textbook introduces advanced classical electrodynamics using modern mathematical techniques, with an emphasis on physical conc...

Description About the Editors The passage of a system from one minimum energy state to another via a potential energy barrier provides a model ...

Description This book concerns the mathematical analysis — modeling physical concepts, existence, uniqueness, stability, asymptotics, computati...

Description As an emerging interdisciplinary field, acoustic metamaterials have generated increasing interests for diverse engineering applicat...

Description This series of volumes constitutes an outstanding collection of contributions by the most active research workers in the area of ac...

Description The interaction of acoustic fields with submerged elastic structures, both by propagation and scattering, is being investigated at ...

Description The interaction of acoustic fields with submerged elastic structures, both by propagation and scattering, is being investigated at ...

Description The interaction of acoustic fields with submerged elastic structures, both by propagation and scattering, is being investigated at ...

Description The ARENA Workshop in Zeuthen was the first to combine extensively the fields of acoustic and radio detection techniques for high-e...

Description Originally invented for generating the first artificial nuclear reactions, particle accelerators have undergone, during the past 80...

Description Translated from Russian by Vitaly Kisin This little book concentrates on the foundations of modern physics (its "ABC's") and its mo...

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

Description About the Author Two models for the origin of the Solar System, the Nebula Theory and the Capture Theory, are discussed by protagon...

Description About the Editors During the last six decades, Yang–Mills theory has increasingly become the cornerstone of theoretical physics. It...

Description About the Editors The book is a compilation of the most important experimental results achieved during the past 60 years at CERN, t...

Description About the Editor On the 50th anniversary of Yang-Mills theory, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievemen...

Description About the Editor In his groundbreaking paper “Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices (1958)”, Philip W Anderson originated...

Description About the Author Ever since the beginning of mankind's efforts to pursue a scientific inquiry into the laws of nature, visualisatio...

Description About the Author The modern electron microscope, as a result of recent revolutionary developments and many evolutionary ones, now y...

Description On the 40th anniversary of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) Theory, this informative volume looks back at some of the deve...

Description About the Author This is a collection of Prof L D Faddeev's important lectures, papers and talks. Some of these have not been publi...

Description The Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics was created in 1965 by a group of LD Landau's pupils. Very soon, it was widely recogni...

Description About the Editors In this volume, major events and personalities of 20th-century physics are portrayed through recollections and hi...

Description This volume considers recent theoretical and observational developments in astronomy and astrophysics with contributions on solar s...

Description Two theories revolutionised the 20th-century view of space and time: Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics....

Description This volume offers a comprehensive overview of our understanding of gravity at both the experimental and the theoretical level. Cri...

Description This book is based on research on the rigorous proof of chaos and bifurcations in 2-D quadratic maps, especially the invertible cas...

Description In July 2000, a conference was held to honour the 65th birthdays of four of the leading international figures in the field of quant...

Description About the Editor By 1911, we'd known about radioactivity for over a decade, but its origin remained a mystery. Ernest Rutherford's ...

Description Thanks to Einstein’s theories on relativity, our notions of space and time have undergone profound revisions. Since then, the resul...

Description This invaluable book goes from Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900 to the most recent interpretations and applications of non...

Description This collection of papers presents ideas and problems that have arisen over the past 100 years regarding classical and quantum grav...