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Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War II is a coherent account of the history of radar in the second World War. Although many books have been written on the early days of radar and its role in the war, this book is by far the...

The Student's Study Guide summarizes the essential information in each chapter and provides additional problems for the student to solve, reinforcing the text's emphasis on problem-solving strategies and student misconceptions. Student's Study Guide for...

A groundbreaking textbook on twenty-first-century waves of all sorts and their applicationsKip Thorne and Roger Blandford's monumental Modern Classical Physics is now available in five stand-alone volumes that make ideal textbooks for individual graduate...

Maximize your course success by making the most of what Serway/Jewett's PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS, Tenth Edition, has to offer. From a host of in-text features to a range of outstanding technology resources, you'll have everything you need to...

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical...

Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's...

This comprehensively revised - essentially rewritten - new edition of the 1990 edition (described as "extremely useful" by MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS and as "understandable and comprehensive" by Scitech) guides readers through the dense array of mathematical...

In this entertaining and authoritative biography Michael Sharratt examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness, and penetration of Galileo Galilei. To follow his career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat...

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 equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with...

"Galison provides excellent histories of three experimental episodes: the measurement of the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron, the discovery of the mu meson, or muon, and the discovery of weak neutral currents. These studies of actual experiments will...

Rather than focusing on the contributions of theoretical physicists to the understanding of the subatomic world and of the beginning of the universe - as most popular science books on particle physics do - this book is different in that, firstly, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316366953Author Dr Roger HighfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990724346Author Dan FullertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Silly Beagle ProductionsPublisher Silly Beagle ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544272996Author Randall MunroeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Can you walk over red-hot charcoal without burning your feet? Appear to stop the beating of your heart? Bend spoons using the power of your mind? In Debunked! Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the...

With every chapter revised and updated, Physics for Diagnostic Radiology, Third Edition continues to emphasise the importance of physics education as a critical component of radiology training. This bestselling text helps readers understand how various...

Based on an established course and covering the fundamentals, central areas and contemporary topics of this diverse field, Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics is a much-needed textbook for graduate students. The book begins with an introduction to...

This book on the theory of three-dimensional spinors and their applications fills an important gap in the literature. It gives an introductory treatment of spinors. From the reviews: "Gathers much of what can be done with 3-D spinors in an...

Though thousands of articles and books have been published on various aspects of the Manhattan Project, this book is the first comprehensive single-volume history prepared by a specialist for curious readers without a scientific background. This project,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601632098Author Greg CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411552Author Bruce J. BerneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

This book is written with the belief that classical mechanics, as a theoretical discipline, possesses an inherent beauty, depth, and richness that far transcends its immediate applications in mechanical systems. These properties are manifested, by and...

This widely acclaimed introduction to N = 1 supersymmetry and supergravity is aimed at readers familiar with relativistic quantum field theory who wish to learn about the supersymmetry algebra. In this new volume Supersymmetry and Supergravity has been...

A fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancer-and an engaging introduction to both disciplines From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774857175Author Maria BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon DoughPublisher Simon DoughWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

The newly revised Twelfth Edition of Cutnell's Physics delivers an effective and accessible introduction to college and university physics. It contains easy-to follow explanations of critical math and problem-solving concepts. From kinematics to work and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110903Author Geoffrey WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 138mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546614Author Eric JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

First published in 1973, Dr Clemmow's Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory provides a crisp and selective account of the subject. It concentrates on field theory (with the early development of Maxwell's equations) and omits extended descriptions of...

This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams. It involves the compression of tiny amounts (micrograms) of fuel to thousand times solid density...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262632607Author Carver A. MeadFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making. The discovery by Max von Laue in 1912 of interference effects demonstrated the wave-like nature of X-rays and the atomic lattice structure of crystals. This major advance...

This book provides an accessible introduction to stochastic processes in physics and describes the basic mathematical tools of the trade: probability, random walks, and Wiener and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. It includes end-of-chapter problems and...

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition focuses on the utilization of sustainable energy and mitigating climate change, serving as an introduction to physics in the context of societal problems. A distinguishing feature of the text is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776314Author Roger PenroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1136Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1077gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Sand, rice, sugar, snow, cement... Although ubiquitous in our daily lives, granular media still challenge engineers and fascinate researchers. This book provides the state-of-the-art of the physics of granular media and recent advances in the field. The...

Answers to science's most enduring questions from ""Can I break the light-speed barrier like on Star Trek?"" and ""Is there life on other planets?"" to ""What is empty space made of?"" This is an indispensable guide to physics that offers readers an...

Macromolecules in solutions can be distinctly characterised by their transport behaviour in solution phase. The study of the transport processes includes diffusion coefficient, sedimentation coefficient, intrinsic viscosity and friction constant. The...

This book begins with an examination of the numbers of women in physics in English-speaking countries, moving on to examine factors that affect girls and their decision to continue in science, right through to education and on into the problems that...

This is a new translation, with introduction, commentary, and an explanatory glossary."Sachs's translation and commentary rescue Aristotle's text from the rigid, pedantic, and misleading versions that have until now obscured his thought. Thanks to...