Physics and Astronomy

The book contains a variety of problems, selected from the books by renowned authorities on the subject and also from different engineering entranc...

The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed...

The book contains a variety of problems, selected from the books by renowned authorities on the subject and also from different engineering entranc...

The effort to understand and explain the universe has always been one of the greatest intellectual challenges to mankind since the dawn of civilisa...

This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. Our universe originated in a great explosion – ...

About the Book The subject of wave-particle interactions occurring in space plasmas has developed strongly, both observationally and theoretically,...

About the Book Metamaterials is a young subject born in the 21st century. It is concerned with artificial materials which can have electrical and m...

About the Book What is the smallest thing we can see? The fundamental limit on the size of an object that can be visualized with a light microscope...

About the Book This Open Access textbook, like Rayleigh's classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather th...

This is the first book to provide a molecular level explanation of how the senses work, linking molecular biology with sensory physiology to deduce...

About the Book Building on the author's previous book in the series, Complex Analysis with Applications to Flows and Fields (CRC Press, 2010), Tran...

About the Book What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and futu...

About the Book Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their sol...

Theory of Molecular Fluids I: Fundamentals

This textbook summarizes the course of engineering mechanics, designed for one or two semesters, at the undergraduate or graduate level for a range...

About the Book The Universal Force conveys the excitement of science and nature's mysteries. It describes gravitation as seen by examining the achi...

About the Book The Universal Force conveys the excitement of science and nature's mysteries. It describes gravitation as seen by examining the achi...

About the Book The widespread and increasing use of carbon nanotubes in scientific and engineering research and their incorporation into manufactur...

About the Book The Sun, as our nearest star, is of enormous importance for life on Earth - providing the warm radiation and light which allowed com...

About the Book Kepler's essay, On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, provides the first published evidence of the ideas of regular arrangements and close-...

About the Book Research on advanced energy conversion devices such as solar cells has intensified in the last two decades. A broad landscape of can...

About the Book The Origins of Life and the Universe is the culmination of a university science professor's search for understanding and is based on...

About the Book There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to fo...

About the Book The fifth edition of Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion's famous guide to the night sky is updated for planet positions and forthcoming ecli...

About the Book A thorough introduction to modern classical and quantum optics, appropriate for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduates. The ...

About the Book This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the...

About the Book Meteor succeeded meteor in such rapid succession that it was impossible to count them; at times the sky seemed full of them, and the...

About the Book This book presents lectures by prestigious researchers and experienced observers from the eighteenth Winter School of the Canary Isl...

About the Book How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-y...

About the Book The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great...

About the Book On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close with...

About the Book 'Superconducting State' provides a very detailed theoretical treatment of the key mechanisms of superconductivity, including the cur...

About the Book This course-tested primer provides graduate students and non-specialists with a basic understanding of the concepts and methods of s...

About the Book This textbook develops Special Relativity in a systematic way and offers the unique feature of having more than 200 problems with de...

About the Book Soft matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has emerged as a ri...

About the Book * pick a project you'll enjoy * create a great experiment * organize your data * design a winning backboard * and more Your all-in...

About the Book This comprehensive tutorial guide to silicon nanomaterials spans from fundamental properties, growth mechanisms, and processing of n...

About the Book It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early1980s David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist...

About the Book The pendulum is a unique physical system which exhibits remarkably varied and complex behavior under many different conditions. It i...

About the Book Axiomatic and constructive approaches to quantum field theory first aim to establish it on precise, non-perturbative bases: general ...

About the Book The wide media coverage of the Voyager spaceprobe's 1989 encounter with the moons of Neptune confirmed once again the keen public in...

About the Book In 1905, Albert Einstein wrote five papers which marked a watershed between classical and modern physics. These papers dealt with th...

About the Book Electrons in solids behave like microscopic bar magnets, and in certain solids these align to produce macroscopic magnetizations. Th...

About the Book Relativistic hydrodynamics is a very successful theoretical framework to describe the dynamics of matter from scales as small as tho...

About the Book This book describes the theory of radiation thermometry, both at a primary level and for a variety of applications, such as in the m...

Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots provides all the essential information, both theoretical and computational, for complete beginners to develop an unde...