Physics and Astronomy

About the Book Fluid turbulence is often referred to as the unsolved problem of classical physics'. Yet, paradoxically, its mathematical descriptio...

About the Book The field of nanoscience was pioneered in the 1980s with the groundbreaking research on clusters, which later led to the discovery o...

About the Book In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of gal...

Fundamentals Of Mechanics by Chandra, Cambridge University Press, 2013, Paperback, 9789382993407

About the Book This book addresses the question 'What is physics for?' Physics has provided many answers for mankind by extending his ability to se...

About the Book The last decade has seen striking progress in the subject of renormalization in quantum field theory. The old subject of perturbativ...

About the Book Before exploding as supernovae, luminous hot stars live out their lives of a few million years with prodigious outputs of radiation ...

About the Book Foams are ubiquitous in our daily lives. Their presence is highly desirable in certain foods, drinks and cosmetics, and they are ess...

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning. It assumes a basic level of mathematics knowledge that would...

About the Book The book provides a unifying insight into fluctuation phenomena in a broad variety of vibrational systems of current interest. It co...

About the Book Eyes on the Universe is an illustrated history of the telescope, beginning with pre-telescopic observatories and the refractors of G...

About the Book During the last decade our expertise in nanotechnology has advanced considerably. The possibility of incorporating in the same nanos...

About the Book We live in a world of networks, where everything is amazingly close to everything else. The notion of 'network' turns out to be cent...

About the Book This book is a course in methods and models rooted in physics and used in modelling economic and social phenomena. It covers the dis...

About the Book The articles, essays, and interviews that comprise this work offer Dr. Goldanskii's reminiscences of his extraordinary scientific me...

About the Book This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular ...

About the Book Equilibrium Problems and Applications develops a unified variational approach to deal with single-valued, set-valued and quasi-equil...

About the Book Enjoy Our Universe is a guide for an enjoyable visit to the Universe. The "Universe" refers to all "observable things," ranging in s...

Photovoltaic technology proven to be safe, clean, efficient and easy to implement all over the world. The photovoltaic sectors impressive progress ...

About the Book The book develops the dynamical theory of scattering from random media from first principles. Its key findings are to characterize t...

About the Book This book is a reissue of the third and last edition of a classic text providing the reader with a comprehensive account at first de...

About the Book This book is a reissue of the third and last edition of a classic text providing the reader with a comprehensive account at first de...

About the Book An understanding of the behaviour of financial assets and the evolution of economies has never been as important as today. This book...

About the Book Innovation is key to achieving a sustainable electricity system. New technologies and organizational changes can bring about more su...

About the Book The author argues that, after five decades of debate about the interactive of solar wind with the magnetosphere, it is time to get b...

About the Book Special relativity suffers from the myth that it is difficult. In order to overcome this barrier dynamics and relativity presents an...

About the Book Leading research, perspectives, and analysis of dynamical systems and irreversibility Edited by Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine an...

About the Book Most of the solid materials we use in everyday life, from plastics to cosmetic gels exist under a non-crystalline, amorphous form: t...

About the Book A presentation of the various methods used by engineers to separate signals from noise. As this is mostly done by using a suitable f...

About the Book Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein's first seminar on the general theory of relativ...

Crystals have fascinated us for centuries with their beauty and symmetry, and have often been invested with magical powers. The use of X-ray diffra...

About the Book Recent observations have demonstrated that supernovae and gamma ray bursts are driven by strong jets of energy and other asymmetrica...

About the Book This book provides an accessible, yet thorough, introduction to special and general relativity, crafted and class-tested over many y...

About the Book Quantum phase transitions describe the violent rearrangement of electrons or atoms as they evolve from well defined excitations in o...

About the Book This introductory text is a reader friendly treatment of geometrical and physical optics emphasizing problems and solved examples wi...

About the Book Norton's Complex Variables for Scientists and Engineers is a new textbook, originally written for the Complex Analysis term of an un...

About the Author Dr. Roger A. Freedman is a Lecturer in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was an undergraduate at the Univ...

About the Book This book provides a first comprehensive summary of the basic principles, instrumentation, methods, and clinical applications of thr...

About the Book Covers the environmentally friendly cleaning materials functionalized with TiO2, a widely known semiconductor causing redox reaction...

About the Book This is a clear and up-to-date account of the application of electron-based microscopies to the study of high-Tc superconductors. Wr...

About the Book The Cambridge Starfinder Pack contains three essential items to get you started on the fascinating hobby of astronomy. The Star Char...

About the Book This collection of essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the ...

On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New Y...

About the Book Among the most interesting fields in research are the emerging possibilities to interface the human brain directly with machines, e....

About the Book This textbook introduces the current astrophysical observations of black holes, and discusses the leading techniques to study the st...

About the Book Black holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious nature. This Very Short Introduction, addresses a v...

About the Book Physics, once known as 'natural philosophy, ' is the most basic science. This work traces key developments in the field, setting des...