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Periodic, quasi-periodic and chaotic motions in Celestial Mechanics: Theory and ApplicationsAuthor:
Alessandra CellettiPages:
448Format:
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140205324XThe book pres the most recent advances of Celestial Mechanics, as pred by high-level scientists working in this field. It covers theoretical investigations as well as applications to concrete problems. Outstanding review papers are included in the book and they introduce the reader to leading subjects, like the variational approaches to find periodic orbits, the stability theory of the N-body problem, the spin-orbit resonances and chaotic dynamics,the space debris polluting the circumterrestrial space. 
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Principles Of Radiation Interaction In Matter And DetectionAuthor:
Claude Leroy, Pier-Giorgio RancoitaPages:
950Format:
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9812818278This book, like its first edition, addresses the fundamental principles of interaction between radiation and matter and the principle of particle detectors in a wide scope of fields, from low to high energy, including space physics and the medical environment. It provides abundant information about the processes of electromagnetic and hadronic energy deposition in matter, detecting systems, and performance and optimization of detectors.In this second edition, new sections dedicated to the following topics are included: space and high-energy physics radiation environment, non-ionizing energy loss (NIEL), displacement damage in silicon devices and detectors, single event effects, detection of slow and fast neutrons with silicon detectors, solar cells, pixel detectors, and additional material for dark matter detectors.This book will benefit graduate students and final-year undergraduates as a reference and supplement for courses in particle, astroparticle, and space physics and instrumentation. A part of it is directed toward courses in medical physics. The book can also be used by researchers in experimental particle physics at low, medium, and high energy who are dealing with instrumentation.Contents: Electromagnetic Interaction of Radiation in Matter; Nuclear Interactions in Matter; Radiation Environments and Damage in Silicon Semiconductors; Scintillating Media and Scintillator Detectors; Solid State Detectors; Displacement Damage and Particle Interactions in Silicon Devices; Ionization Chambers; Principles of Particle Energy Determination; Superheated Droplet (Bubble) Detectors and CDM Search; Medical Physics Applications.
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Introduction to NanophotonicsAuthor:
Sergey V. GaponenkoPages:
484Format:
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0521763754Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter interaction. Describing the basic phenomena, principles, experimental advances and potential impact of nanophotonics, this graduate-level textbook is ideal for students in physics, optical and electronic engineering and materials science. The textbook highlights practical issues, material properties and device feasibility, and includes the basic optical properties of metals, semiconductors and dielectrics. Mathematics is kept to a minimum and theoretical issues are reduced to a conceptual level. Each chapter ends in problems so readers can monitor their understanding of the material presented. The introductory quantum theory of solids and size effects in semiconductors are considered to give a parallel discussion of wave optics and wave mechanics of nanostructures. The physical and historical interplay of wave optics and quantum mechanics is traced. Nanoplasmonics, an essential part of modern photonics, is also included.
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Head First Physics: A learner's companion to mechanics and practical physicsAuthor:
Heather LangPages:
944Format:
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0596102372Wouldn't it be great if there were a physics book that showed you how things work instead of telling you how? Finally, with Head First Physics, there is. This comprehensive book takes the stress out of learning mechanics and practical physics by providing a fun and engaging experience, especially for students who "just don't get it."Head First Physics offers a format that's rich in visuals and full of activities, including pictures, illustrations, puzzles, stories, and quizzes -- a mixed-media style proven to stimulate learning and retention. One look will convince you: This isn't mere theory, this is physics brought to life through real-world scenarios, simple experiments, and hypothetical projects. Head First Physics is perfect for anyone who's intrigued by how things work in the natural world.You'll quickly discover that physics isn't a dry subject. It's all about the world we live in, encompassing everything from falling objects and speeding cars, to conservation of energy and gravity and weightlessness, and orbital behavior. This book:* Helps you think like a physicist so you can understand why things really work the way they do
* Gives you relevant examples so you can fully grasp the principles before moving on to more complex concepts
* Designed to be used as a supplement study guide for the College Board's Advanced Placement Physics B Exam
* Introduces principles for the purpose of solving real-world problems, not memorization
* Teaches you how to measure, observe, calculate -- and yes -- how to do the math
* Covers scientific notation, SI units, vectors, motion, momentum conservation, Newton's Laws, energy conservation, weight and mass, gravitation and orbits, circular motion and simple harmonic motion, and much moreIf "Myth Busters" and other TV programs make you curious about our physical world -- or if you're a student forced to take a physics course -- now you can pursue the subject without the dread of boredom or the fear that it will be over your head. Head First Physics comes to the rescue with an innovative, engaging, and inspirational way to learn physics!
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Accurate Clock PendulumsAuthor:
Robert James MatthysPages:
280Format:
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0198529716The Shortt clock, made in the 1920's is the most famous accurate clock pendulum ever known, having an accuracy of one second per year when kept at nearly constant temperature. Almost all of a pendulum clock's accuracy resides in its pendulum. Of the pendulum is accurate, the clock will be accurate. In this book, the author describes many scientific aspects of pendulum design and operation in simple terms with experimental data, and little mathematics. It has been written, looking at all the different parts and aspects of the pendulum in great detail, chapter by chapter, reflecting the degree of attention necessary for making a pendulum run accurately. The topics covered include the dimensional stability of different pendulum materials, good and poor suspension spring designs, the design of mechanical joints and clamps, effect of quartz on accuracy, temperature compensation, air drag of different bob shapes and making s sinusoidal electromagnetic drive. Once whole chapter is devoted to simple ways of improving the accuracy of ordinary low-cost pendulum clocks, which have a different construction to the more expensive designs of substantially well-made ones. This book will prove invaluable to anyone who wants to know how to make a more accurate pendulum or pendulum clock.
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Elements of Numerical RelativityAuthor:
Carles Bona, Carlos Palenzuela-LuquePages:
151Format:
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3540257799Spurred by the current development of numerous large-scale projects for detecting gravitational radiation, with the aim to open a completely new window to the observable Universe, numerical relativity has become a major field of research over the past years. Indeed, numerical relativity is the standard approach when studying potential sources of gravitational waves, where strong fields and relativistic velocities are part of any physical scenario. This book can be considered a primer for both graduate students and non-specialist researchers wishing to enter the field. Starting from the most basic insights and aspects of numerical relativity, Elements of Numerical Relativity develops coherent guidelines for the reliable and convenient selection of each of the following key aspects: evolution formalism, gauge, initial and boundary conditions as well as various numerical algorithms. The tests and applications proposed in this book can be performed on a standard PC.
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Substance and Function and Einstein's Theory of RelativityAuthor:
E. CassirerPages:
465Format:
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0486200507Reader's review:In Thomas Kuhn's terms this 1923 classic is the codification of the new paradigm of relativity with a comparison of the older theories.
The theory is based on the work of basically German scientists and mathematicians : Klein, Riemann, Lorentz and Einstein with a mention or two of the Frenchman Poincare. The Italians Bianchi and Beltrami are given little credit for their contributions. What seems clear from reading this doctrine is that the paradigm shifted in spite of authors like this
and not because of them. We are again approaching a paradigm shift
in which the standard model and the dark matter/ dark energy cosmologists
will come head to head. The quantum information and information theory
doctrine is also boiling over in an entirely new direction
from the Boolean / symbolic doctrines found in set theory.
Once the change comes about this text will be much more obsolete
than it is now. Mathematics and physics makes slow progress,
but it is steady. If civilization survives a new quantum paradigm
based on understanding of the early universe is ahead.[
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Coherent Sources of XUV Radiation: Soft X-Ray Lasers and High-Order Harmonic GenerationAuthor:
Pierre JaeglePages:
409Format:
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0387230076The radiation range of photon energy comprised between, let us say, 20 eV and 600 eV is known by the names of extreme ultraviolet, soft X-ray or XUV radiation. This fluctuating designation reflects the various origins of a radiation pattern which, in other respects, exhibits singular optical properties marking it off from far-ultraviolet, on one side, and X-rays, on the other. The penetration length of XUV radiation is very small in almost all materials—generally less than 1 ?m. There is practically no reflection on optical surfaces under normal incidence and, in addition, wavelength is too large to make use of Bragg reflection on natural crystals. These peculiarities made the development of instrumentation for XUV studies more difficult than for others spectral fields, a fact which has been prejudicial to the advance of XUV research. During the last decades important progress, especially in XUV optics, became possible with the help of synchrotron radiation sources.
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Quantum Themes: The Charms of the MicroworldAuthor:
T. PadmanabhanPages:
230Format:
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9812835458Quantum theory is one of the more abstract branches of theoretical physics, yet it makes clear and concrete predictions which are repeatedly verified experimentally. More recently, there has been some confluence between the concepts of microphysics and those of macrophysics. Currently fashionable ideas in cosmology are also deeply linked to concepts from quantum theory, thus piquing greater interest in this subject. This timely book takes stock of what quantum theory has achieved and where it is leading to at present, in a manner understandable to an educated layman.The book describes concepts in a strictly scientific manner without trying to make them sound overly philosophical or "hyping" them up. At the same time, careful explanation of the concepts and details (including the technical terminology) are given in a nonmathematical language for the general reader. In particular, emphasis is given to the specific aspects of quantum theory that interface with gravity and cosmology, so as to keep the book reasonably up to date and focused on a key underlying theme.Contents: The Hubris of Classical Physics; And Then There Was Einstein; Madness of the Micro-World; Particles, Particles Everywhere; Cosmos and the Quantum; Matters of Gravity; In the Beginning
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Collection of books on physicsAuthor:
SpringerPages:
5х - 400Format:
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0000000000Collection of books on physics
Publisher: Springer | 5х - 400 pages | 1981-1998 | djvu | 17 mbThis book combines supersymmetry modelling in quantum mechanics and integrable models in a unique way. It addresses researchers as well as graduate students. Along with articles that present new technical results, the reader will also find pedagogically written reviews. Recent applications of supersymmetric integrable models are also given.This book combines supersymmetry modelling in quantum mechanics and integrable models in a unique way. It addresses researchers as well as graduate students. Along with articles that present new technical results, the reader will also find pedagogically written reviews. Recent applications of supersymmetric integrable models are also given.International Symposium on Mathematical Problems in Theoretical Physics
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540071741 | 400 pages | 1975 | djvu | 3,8 mbInternational Symposium on Mathematical Problems in Theoretical Physics: January 23-29, 1975, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Lecture Notes in Physics)
From Collective States to Quarks in Nuclei: Proceedings of the Workshop on Nuclear Physics with Real and Virtual Photons
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540105700 | 400 pages | 1981 | djvu | 2,9 mbFrom Collective States to Quarks in Nuclei: Proceedings of the Workshop on Nuclear Physics with Real and Virtual Photons, Held in Bologna, Italy, November 25-28, 1980 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Nuclear Physics with Electromagnetic Interactions: Proceedings of the International Conference
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 354009539X | 500 pages | 1979 | djvu | 5,3 mbNuclear Physics with Electromagnetic Interactions: Proceedings of the International Conference, Held in Mainz, Germany, June 5-9, 1979 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Supersymmetry and Integrable Models: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Chicago, IL
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540639861 | 360 pages | 1998 | djvu | 2,2 mbThis book combines supersymmetry modelling in quantum mechanics and integrable models in a unique way. It addresses researchers as well as graduate students. Along with articles that present new technical results, the reader will also find pedagogically written reviews. Recent applications of supersymmetric integrable models are also given.
Buckling and Post-Buckling: Four Lectures in Experimental
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540183124 | 360 pages | 1987 | djvu | 1,69 mbThe four lectures presented in this volume discuss recent ideas such as bifurcation, catastrophe and singular theory in elastic post-buckling but avoid advanced mathematics. The influence of imperfections and boundary conditions on the maximal load of stiffened shells of revolution is studied by numerical methods. Experimental methods to test compressed structures are presented and will serve as a useful guide for engineers and physicists. Also of practical importance is the thorough discussion of the state of the art in plastic buckling of plates and shells under the influence of the constitutive laws. The lectures are intended for postgraduate students, but at the same time they should serve as a review for researchers and engineers in solid mechanics.
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Principles of Magnetic Resonance (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences)Author:
C.P. SlichterPages:
657Format:
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3540501576Principles of Magnetic Resonance is a textbook intended for graduate students who plan to work in nuclear magnetic resonance or electron spin resonance. The text treats the basic principles of magnetic resonance, steady-state and pulse methods, the theory of the width, shape, and position of spectral absorption lines, and the theory of relaxation times, and introduces the density matrix. This third edition adds new material to many parts, plus new sections on one- and two-dimensional Fourier transform methods, multiple quantum coherence, and magnetic resonance imaging.
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Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of PhysicsAuthor:
Albert Einstein, John Stachel, Roger PenrosePages:
198Format:
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0691059381The anno mirabilis was 1905, when an obscure patent examiner published several papers. This volume consists of translations of Einstein's revolutionary papers that year, with introductions by physicist Roger Penrose and others that explain why these papers are among the most important scientific documents of this century--if not all time. As a group they are notable for bridging mechanical theories of physics--particles whizzing around--and the relativistic view. In the former category, Einstein figured out the sizes of molecules, and that their bombardments kept microscopic particles in motion, both mysterious matters hitherto. The relativity papers announce the two things everyone knows about Einstein besides his iconic appearance, that energy and mass are equivalent and that time is not absolute. That the soul of this book is Ph.D.-level mathematics doesn't disqualify it from public libraries: mightn't some wunderkind of the future fondly remember in her memoirs the day she discovered Einstein's actual equations in the stacks?
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Neutrosophic Methods in General RelativityAuthor:
Florentin Smarandache, Larissa Borissova Dmitri RabounskiPages:
107Format:
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1931233918Neutrosophy is a theory developed by Florentin Smarandache in 1995 as a generalization of dialectics, which studies the origin, nature and properties of neutralities. This book applies neutrosophic method to the General Theory of Relativity, aiming to discover new effects hidden before. Studying Einstein's basic space-time, neutrosophic method displays new trajectories and particles never considered before. Such trajectories/particles are of two "mixed" kinds, which are (1) common for sub-light mass-bearing particles and massless photons (non-isotropic/isotropic trajectories) and (2) common for massless photons and super-light mass-bearing tachyons (isotropic/non-isotropic trajectories).
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Complex General Relativity (Fundamental Theories of Physics)Author:
G. EspositoPages:
214Format:
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0792333403This volume introduces the application of two-component spinor calculus and fibre-bundle theory to complex general relativity. A review of basic and important topics is presented, such as two-component spinor calculus, conformal gravity, twistor spaces for Minkowski space-time and for curved space-time, Penrose transform for gravitation, the global theory of the Dirac operator in Riemannian four-manifolds, various definitions of twistors in curved space-time and the recent attempt by Penrose to define twistors as spin-3/2 charges in Ricci-flat space-time. Original results include some geometrical properties of complex space-times with nonvanishing torsion, the Dirac operator with locally supersymmetric boundary conditions, the application of spin-lowering and spin-raising operators to elliptic boundary value problems, and the Dirac and Rarita--Schwinger forms of spin-3/2 potentials applied in real Riemannian four-manifolds with boundary. This book is written for students and research workers interested in classical gravity, quantum gravity and geometrical methods in field theory. It can also be recommended as a supplementary graduate textbook.
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Relativity In Our Time: From Physics to Human RelationsAuthor:
Mendel SachsPages:
168Format:
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0748401172This unique book covers the whole subject of relativity, from the early history of Galileo and Faraday to the foundation of special theory. It provides a splendid grounding to the new ideas and allows the reader's thoughts to evolve towards a realistic interpretation of nature.Review
"Sachs has written a book that is enjoyable to read, and for which most parts is easy to understand." -- European Journal of Physics
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Recent Advances in General RelativityAuthor:
Allen I. Janis, John R. PorterPages:
266Format:
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0817635416Papers from the Discussion Conference on Recent Advances in General Relativity, held at the U. of Pittsburgh, May 1990, survey the interacting fields of classical general relativity, astrophysics, and quantum gravity. Some of the remarks made following the invited papers are also included. The conference also included three workshops--on classical gravity, quantum gravity, and numerical relativity--which are reported on by their organizers.
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Rotating Fields in General RelativityAuthor:
Jamal Nazrul IslamPages:
132Format:
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0521113113The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to research work on a particular aspect of rotating fields in general relativity. The account begins with a short introduction to the relevant aspects of general relativity, written at a level accessible to a beginning graduate student in theoretical physics. There follows a detailed derivation of the Wehl-Lewis-Papapetrou form of the stationary axially symmetric metric. The Kerr and Tomimatsu-Sato forms of the rotating interior and exterior solutions of the Einstein equations are then discussed. The last three chapters of the book illustrate the applications of the theory to rotating neutral dust, rotating Einstein-Maxwell fields, and rotating charged dust. The author has drawn on his own research work to produce a timely discussion of this important area of research.
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Special Relativity: Will it Survive the Next 101 Years?Author:
Jurgen Ehlers, Claus LammerzahlPages:
533Format:
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3540345221After a century of successes, physicists still feel the need to probe the limits of the validity of theories based on special relativity. Canonical approaches to quantum gravity, non-commutative geometry, string theory and unification scenarios predict tiny violations of Lorentz invariance at high energies.The present book, based on a recent seminar devoted to such frontier problems, contains reviews of the foundations of special relativity and the implications of Poincare invariance as well as comprehensive accounts of experimental results and proposed tests.The book addresses, besides researchers in the field, everyone interested in the conceptual and empirical foundations of our knowledge about space, time and matter.
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Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and ApplicationsAuthor:
Wenshan Cai, Vladimir ShalaevPages:
200Format:
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1441911502Metamaterials—artificially structured materials with engineered electromagnetic properties—have enabled unprecedented flexibility in manipulating electromagnetic waves and producing new functionalities. This book details recent advances in the study of optical metamaterials, ranging from fundamental aspects to up-to-date implementations, in one unified treatment. Important recent developments and applications such as superlens and cloaking devices are also treated in detail and made understandable. The planned monograph can serve as a very timely book for both newcomers and advanced researchers in this extremely rapid evolving field.
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The Universe of General Relativity (Einstein Studies)Author:
A.J.Kox, Jean EisenstaedtPages:
383Format:
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081764380XThis volume from the Einstein Studies Series is based largely on papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the History of General Relativity, held in Amsterdam on June 26-29, 2002. These contributions from notable experts offer both new and historical insights on gravitation, general relativity, cosmology, unified field theory, and the history of science.Topics discussed include the prehistory of special relativity, early attempts at a relativistic theory of gravitation, the beginnings of general relativity, the problem of motion in the context of relativity, conservation laws, the axiomatization of relativity, classical and contemporary cosmology, gravitation and electromagnetism, quantum gravity, and relativity as seen through the eyes of the public and renowned relativists.
