Incorporating a modeling approach throughout, this exciting text emphasizes concepts and shows that the study of differential equations is a beautiful...
Category - CONCEPTS OF PHYSICS
Recent scientific and technical advances have made it possible to create matter in the laboratory under conditions relevant to astrophysical systems such as...
Most matter in the Universe, from the deep interior of planets to the core of stars, is at high temperature or high pressure compared to the matter of our...
The period started with two unexpected spino?s of the Crooke’s vacuum tube: Roentgen’s X-rays (1895) and Thomson’s electron (1897), the ?rst elementary...
An accessible introduction to nuclear and particle physics with equal coverage of both topics, this text covers all the standard topics in particle and nuclear...
Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and with these discoveries believed they could predict the...
Gauss’s law for electric fields, Gauss’s law for magnetic fields, Faraday’s law, and the Ampere Maxwell law are four of the most influential...
This text looks at thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Part I introduces concepts of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics from a unified view. Parts...
This Very Short Introduction introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians calculating the size of the earth while their caliphs conquered much of...
Accelerators, as research and industrial tools, are increasingly becoming a key driver of the advances of a modern society. As accelerators and our...