Category: Physics

By Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

Undying and collectible, The Feynman Lectures on Physics are crucial studying, not only for college students of physics, yet for an individual looking an insightful advent to the sector from the inimitable Richard P. Feynman.

By Dean Rickles

During its 40 yr lifespan, string concept has continually had the ability to divide, being referred to as either a 'theory of every little thing' and a 'theory of nothing'. Critics have even puzzled even if it qualifies as a systematic concept in any respect. This publication adopts an goal stance, status again from the query of the truth or falsity of string concept and in its place targeting the way it got here to be and the way it got here to occupy its current place in physics. An abruptly wealthy background is printed, with deep connections to our so much well-established actual theories. totally self-contained and written in a full of life style, the publication will attract a large choice of readers from beginner to specialist.

This ebook makes a speciality of the most recent advancements in molecular mechanics and modeling examine. incorporated during this publication are chapters reviewing the development of the bridging telephone process (BCM) in its formula and its nanostructure and fabric modeling purposes; an research of the response selectivity of alanine racemase mutants; and a step-wise method for inferring the stereo constitution of proteins built utilizing similar stereo constructions. Lastly,molecular mechanics established versions have confirmed to supply a illustration of commonplace carbon porosity and let computational estimates of molecule surface
interaction energies.

By Detlef Laugwitz

The identify of Bernard Riemann is celebrated to mathematicians and physicists around the globe. His identify is indelibly stamped at the literature of arithmetic and physics. This impressive paintings, wealthy in perception and scholarship, is addressed to mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers attracted to arithmetic. It seeks to attract these readers toward the underlying principles of Riemann’s paintings and to the improvement of them of their historic context. This illuminating English-language model of the unique German version might be a huge contribution to the literature of the historical past of mathematics.

By Cynthia Stokes Brown

Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in the 1st well known e-book in an leading edge new box that seeks to slot human historical past into the heritage of the universe, by way of an American ebook Award winner. An epic publication that Kirkus referred to as "world heritage on a grand scale," Big History starts off whilst the universe is not any greater than the measurement of an atom and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by means of 6.1 billion humans. It's a narrative that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black demise, the voyages of Columbus, the economic revolution, and worldwide warming. alongside the way in which historian Cynthia Stokes Brown considers issues as diverse as cellphone formation, inhabitants development, international disparities, and illiteracy, making a attractive synthesis of the ancient and clinical wisdom of humanity and the earth we inhabit.<p /> <p /> Big History represents a brand new type of background, one who skillfully interweaves historic wisdom and state-of-the-art technological know-how. In an age whilst medical advances allow us to understand the background of mankind within the context of its ecological effect on the earth, Brown's lucid, obtainable narrative is the 1st popularization of this leading edge new box of research, as exciting as it's bold. <p />

The assumption of a a number of universe truth isn't any longer thought of speculative or fantastic through many physicists; fairly, it's deemed inescapable. designated strategies of the multiverse spring from quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory-based cosmology, and ideas a couple of arithmetic established truth that borders at the religious.

In this obtainable and exciting ebook, Dr. Manly publications you on a travel of the numerous multiverse options and offers the non-technical history to appreciate them.

Visions of the Multiverse explores questions equivalent to:

By A.P. French

The M.I.T. Introductory Physics sequence is the results of a application of cautious examine, making plans, and improvement that begun in 1960. The schooling study heart on the Massachusetts Institute of expertise (formerly the technology instructing middle) was once validated to review the method of guideline, aids thereto, and the training approach itself, with particular connection with technology instructing on the collage point. beneficiant help from a few foundations supplied the ability for assembling and protecting an skilled employees to co-operate with contributors of the Institute's Physics division within the exam, development, and improvement of physics curriculum fabrics for college students making plans careers within the sciences. After cautious research of targets and the issues concerned, initial models of textbooks have been ready, confirmed via school room use at M.I.T. and different associations, re-evaluated, rewritten, and attempted back. in basic terms then have been the ultimate manuscripts undertaken.

By Michael D. Fayer

Physics is a fancy, even daunting subject, however it can also be deeply satisfying--even exciting. And liberated from its mathematical underpinnings, physics all of sudden turns into available to an individual with the interest and mind's eye to discover its good looks. technology with no math? it is not that strange. for instance, we will be able to comprehend the idea that of gravity with out fixing a unmarried equation. So for all those that can have reflected what makes blueberries blue and strawberries pink; in the event you have questioned if sound relatively travels in waves; and why mild behaves so in a different way from the other phenomenon within the universe, it is all a question of quantum physics. "Absolutely Small "presents (and demystifies) the area of quantum technological know-how like no ebook ahead of. It explores clinical concepts--from debris of sunshine, to chance, to states of subject, to what makes greenhouse gases bad--in enormous intensity, yet utilizing examples from the standard global. not easy with out being intimidating, obtainable yet no longer condescending, "Absolutely Small" develops the reader's instinct for the very nature of items at their most elementary and fascinating degrees.

By Marc Eichhorn

This textbook originates from a lecture path in laser physics on the Karlsruhe tuition of Optics and Photonics on the Karlsruhe Institute of know-how (KIT). a primary objective within the perception of this textbook was once to explain the basics of lasers in a uniform and particularly lab-oriented notation and formula in addition to many presently famous laser varieties, turning into progressively more very important sooner or later. It closes a niche among the measureable spectroscopic amounts and the entire theoretical description and modeling. This textbook includes not just the basics and the context of laser physics in a mathematical and methodical process vital for university-level reports. It permits at the same time, as a result of its notion and its smooth notation, to without delay enforce and use the discovered subject within the sensible lab paintings. it's provided in a layout compatible for everyone who desires not just to appreciate the basics of lasers but additionally use smooth lasers or perhaps advance and make laser setups. This e-book attempts to restrict prerequisite wisdom and basic realizing to a minimal and is meant for college kids in physics, chemistry and arithmetic after a bachelor measure, on the way to create as a lot pleasure and curiosity as noticeable one of the individuals of the corresponding lectures.

This college textbook describes in its first 3 chapters the basics of lasers: light-matter interplay, the amplifying laser medium and the laser resonator. within the fourth bankruptcy, pulse iteration and similar concepts are awarded. The 5th bankruptcy supplies a remaining assessment on varied laser forms gaining value at present and sooner or later. It additionally includes a set of examples on which the speculation discovered within the first 4 chapters is utilized and extended.