Physics and Astronomy

The plain-English guide to understanding quantum physics Mastering quantum physics is no easy feat, but with the help of Quantum Physics For Dummi...

About the Book Quantum and Classical Connections in Modeling Atomic, Molecular and Electrodynamic Systems is intended for scientists and graduate s...

About the Book Praise for the prior edition "The author has done a magnificent job... this book is highly recommended for introducing biophysics to...

About the Book What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Which properties give you the best chance of winning at Monopoly? And why is it alw...

About the Book This book shows how to use radioisotopes and the emitted ionizing radiations effectively and safely. It describes decay and stabilit...

This study develops the foundations of spectroscopy for plasmas subjected to quasi-monochromatic electric fields in the microwave or visible range....

About the Book In this new book, an interdisciplinary and international team of experts provides an exploration of the emerging plasma science that...

This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used in planetary spacecraft navigation. Written by a former member of NASA's Jet Pr...

About the Book The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media solution that will help stud...

About the Book Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards provides a valuable new insight into how climate change is able to influence, modulate and tri...

About the Book Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment examines the processes whereby plants monitor environmental condi...

About the Book Modern crystallographic methods originate from the synergy of two main research streams, the small-molecule and the macro-molecular ...

About the Book This is the only book available in English language to consider inverse and optimization problems in which phase field distributions...

This well-known introductory textbook gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics from an experimental point of view. The first p...

About the Book Our Worlds provides a rare insider look into the universe and planetary science during the current golden age of space exploration. ...

About the Book Thermal noise from optical coatings is a growing area of concern and overcoming limits to the sensitivity of high precision measurem...

About the Book Nutrition is a topic of wide interest and importance. In spite of growing understanding of the underlying biochemistry, and health c...

About the Book Nonlinear elliptic problems play an increasingly important role in mathematics, science and engineering, creating an exciting interp...

About the Book Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the...

About the Book 1 Introduction to Liquid Crystals.- 2 Dynamics of Nuclear Spins.- 3 Orientational Order.- 4 Molecular Field Theories of Flexible Nem...

About the Book Corrosion in nuclear power plants cause reductions in efficiency and increases in deposit build-up on plant surfaces, making for exp...

About the Book AIDS is not caused by HIV. Coal and oil are not fossil fuels. Radiation exposure is good for you. Distributing more guns reduces cri...

About the Book An insider's look at the science of near-Earth comets and asteroids Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth...

About the Book This book is devoted to the rapidly developing field of oxide thin-films and heterostructures. Oxide materials combined with atomic-...

About the Book Proving to be both varied and fascinating, moons are far more common than planets in our Solar System. Our own Moon has had a profou...

About the Book The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the Ecole de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009. The aim...

About the Book The new edition will provide the sole comprehensive resource available for non-linear optics, including detailed descriptions of the...

About the Book In recent years an enormous amount of cosmological data has come from well known projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) a...

About the Book The Minority Game is a physicist's attempt to explain market behaviour by the interaction between traders. With a minimal set of ing...

About the Book Superconductivity has become one of the most intensely studied physical phenomena of our times, with tremendous potential to revolut...

About the Book MECHANICS OF FLUIDS presents fluid mechanics so that students gain an understanding of and an ability to analyze the important pheno...

Materials and Measurements in Molecular Electronics presents new developments in one of the most promising areas of electronics technology for the ...

About the Book Kimchi's characters talk about themselves in an idiomatic, uninhibited language, sometimes coarse, sometimes violent. The rough forc...

About the Book Since the turn of the 21st century, the field of electron molecule collisions has undergone a renaissance. The importance of such co...

About the Book What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of u...

About the Book Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Fast Particles in Solids examines the kinetics and non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics of fast...

About the Book An isotope is a variant form of a chemical element, containing a different number of neutrons in its nucleus. Most elements exist as...

Written by a highly experienced author, this book fills the need for an accessible approach to grasping and working with the concepts of quantum th...

About the Book 1 Introductory concepts 1.1 Basic ingredients 1.1.1 Typical scales 1.1.2 Perspectives on the structure of matter (contains spoilers)...

About the Book This textbook, based on the authors' class-tested material, is accessible to students at the advanced undergraduate and graduate lev...

About the Book Provides a balanced, university-level introduction to both particle physics and astroparticle physics Updated to reflect the most re...

This textbook provides the basic theoretical and practical knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics. It provides an overview from classical astronom...

The 1997 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics was held at the campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Jerusa...

About the Book This book presents a set of essays on interfacial instability, dealing with the question of the stability of a liquid jet and focusi...

About the Book The description of emerging collective phenomena and self-organization in systems composed of large numbers of individuals has gaine...

About the Book The physics of extended systems is a topic of great interest for the experimentalist and the theoretician alike. There exists a larg...