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Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but...

Quantum Physics of Matter explores the way in which quantum physics determines the properties of materials. The quantum physics of solids, for example, dictates whether they are good insulators, conductors, semiconductors, or even superconductors. At a...

Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the secrets of the universe - the neutrino. First detected in 1956, it teased the answers to science's greatest mysteries. How did the Big Bang happen? What might 'dark...

What is the meaning of time? Do we have an internal clock? Can time speed up or slow down?The Psychology of Time considers how we define, describe, and experience time. From a discussion of how our language around time is dependent on metaphor, to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278821Author Michio KakuFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick- fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton-set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of...

Providing a comprehensive exposition of the transactional interpretation (TI) of quantum mechanics, this book sheds new light on long-standing problems in quantum theory such as the physical meaning of the 'Born Rule' for the probabilities of measurement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193975633Author Ashish AroraFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint G. K. PublicationsPublisher G. K. Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385477819Author Michio KakuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

This text continues to fill the need to communicate the present view of a solid as a system of interacting particles which, under suitable circumstances, behaves like a collection of nearly independent elementary excitations. In addition to introducing...

Now available in paperback, this successful radical approach to complex analysis replaces the standard calculational arguments with new geometric ones. With several hundred diagrams, and far fewer prerequisites than usual, this is the first visual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782917260074Author Yakov PerelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint ProdinnovaPublisher ProdinnovaWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks...

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems. Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and engineering -- avoiding extensive use of quantum mechanics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919629445Author Marc GarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Shadowlands MediaPublisher Shadowlands MediaWeight(grams) 511gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544030Author John M. BeggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

An exploration of mankind's fascination with worlds beyond our own-by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence Krauss -an international leader in physics and cosmology-examines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319100971Author Roger FreedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 928Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning

The arrow of time and the meaning of quantum mechanics are two of the great mysteries of modern physics. This important book - written for non-specialist readers, as well as physicists and philosophers - throws a fascinating new light on both issues, and...

A number of extreme weather events have struck the Northern Hemisphere in recent years, from scorching heatwaves to desperately cold winters, and from floods and storms to droughts and wildfires. These events have fuelled intense discussions in...

Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space. But you'd be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision...

Freeman Dyson's life experiences made him a wise, kindly grandfather figure to two generations of students enrolled in an undergraduate university course 'Science, Technology, & Society.' Near the end of each semester, the class sent him written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328897Author Carlo RovelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 185mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9783540083504Author W. DrechslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher...

Recent progress in the theory and computation of electronic structure is bringing an unprecedented level of capability for research. Many-body methods are becoming essential tools vital for quantitative calculations and understanding materials phenomena...

and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined...

Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton managed to predict the force of gravity but couldn't explain how it worked at a distance. Then Einstein...

In creatures ranging from birds to fish to wildebeest, we observe the collective and coherent motion of large numbers of organisms, known as 'flocking.' John Toner, one of the founders of the field of active matter, uses the hydrodynamic theory of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972509442Author Thomas CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Lightning Strike BooksPublisher Lightning Strike BooksWeight(grams) 372g

This book provides an accessible, yet thorough, introduction to special and general relativity, crafted and class-tested over many years of teaching. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this book provides clear descriptions of how...

"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDavid Bohm (1917-1992) was an American-born British theoretical physicist who developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics.Reviews"Of...

From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical model of...

This book, first published in 2004, provides an introduction to the major mathematical structures used in physics today. It covers the concepts and techniques needed for topics such as group theory, Lie algebras, topology, Hilbert space and differential...

From Atoms to Galaxies: A Conceptual Physics Approach to Scientific Awareness teaches heightened scientific acuity as it educates students about the physical world and gives them answers to questions large and small. Written by Sadri Hassani, the author...

This classic work presents the main results and calculational procedures of quantum electrodynamics in a simple and straightforward way. Designed for the student of experimental physics who does not intend to take more advanced graduate courses in...

A thoroughly updated and extended new edition of this well-regarded introduction to the basic concepts of biological physics for students in the health and life sciences. Designed to provide a solid foundation in physics for students following health...

Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple Physics, popular math and science writer Paul Nahin presents a...

Like its predecessor, 200 Puzzling Physics Problems, this book is aimed at strengthening students' grasp of the laws of physics by applying them to situations that are practical, and to problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than to...