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Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality: From Theory to Experiment Shaaban Khalil 9780367876623
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £42.76Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most important ideas ever conceived in particle physics. It is a symmetry that relates known elementary particles of a certain spin to as yet undiscovered particles that differ by half a unit of that spin (known as... -
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras - A Physicist's Perspective by Adam M. Bincer
Booksplease Price: £84.12This book is intended for graduate students in Physics. It starts with a discussion of angular momentum and rotations in terms of the orthogonal group in three dimensions and the unitary group in two dimensions and goes on to deal with these groups in... -
Simple Brownian Diffusion: An Introduction to the Standard Theoretical Models by Daniel Thomas Gillespie
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £82.47Brownian diffusion is the motion of one or more solute molecules in a sea of very many, much smaller solvent molecules. Its importance today owes mainly to cellular chemistry, since Brownian diffusion is one of the ways in which key reactant molecules... -
Applied Bohmian Mechanics: From Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology by Xavier Oriols Pladevall
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £100.91Most textbooks explain quantum mechanics as a story where each step follows naturally from the one preceding it. However, the development of quantum mechanics was exactly the opposite. It was a zigzag route, full of personal disputes where scientists... -
Self-Field Theory: A New Mathematical Description of Physics by Tony Fleming
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £99.26This is the first text to be written on the topic of Self-Field Theory (SFT), a new mathematical description of physics distinct from quantum field theory, the physical theory of choice by physicists at the present time. SFT is a recent development that... -
Mesh Adaptation for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 2: Unsteady and Goal-oriented Adaptation by Alain Dervieux
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £109.55Simulation technology, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in particular, is essential in the search for solutions to the modern challenges faced by humanity. Revolutions in CFD over the last decade include the use of unstructured meshes, permitting... -
Group Theory for Physicists: With Applications by Pichai Ramadevi
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £52.08Group theory helps readers in understanding the energy spectrum and the degeneracy of systems possessing discrete symmetry and continuous symmetry. The fundamental concepts of group theory and its applications are presented with the help of solved... -
Theory of Nonuniform Waveguides: The cross-section method by Boris Z. Katsenelenbaum
Booksplease Price: £118.78The cross-section method is an analytical tool used in the design of components required for low-loss, highly efficient transmission of electromagnetic waves in nonuniform waveguides. When the waveguide dimensions are large compared with the wavelength,... -
Mechanics, Waves and Thermodynamics: An Example-based Approach by Sudhir Ranjan Jain
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.56The principles of classical physics, though superseded in specific fields by such theories as quantum mechanics and general relativity, are still of great importance in a broad range of applications. The book presents fundamental concepts of classical... -
Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena by Hidetoshi Nishimori 9780198754084
Booksplease Price: £52.09As an introductory account of the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, this book reflects lectures given by the authors to graduate students at their departments and is thus classroom-tested to help beginners enter the field. Most parts... -
Applied Computational Physics by Joseph F. Boudreau 9780198708643
Booksplease Price: £74.31Applied Computational Physics is a graduate-level text stressing three essential elements: advanced programming techniques, numerical analysis, and physics. The goal of the text is to provide students with essential computational skills that they will... -
Mathematical Methods for Physics: An Introduction to Group Theory, Topology and Geometry by Esko Keski-Vakkuri
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.60This detailed yet accessible text provides an essential introduction to the advanced mathematical methods at the core of theoretical physics. The book steadily develops the key concepts required for an understanding of symmetry principles and topological... -
D-Branes by Clifford V. Johnson 9781009401395
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.43D-branes represent a key theoretical tool in the understanding of strongly coupled superstring theory and M-theory. They have led to many striking discoveries, including the precise microphysics underlying the thermodynamic behaviour of certain black... -
An Introduction to Twistor Theory by Professor S. A Huggett 9780521456890
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £40.17This book is an introduction to twistor theory and modern geometrical approaches to space-time structure at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. The choice of material presented has evolved from graduate lectures given in London and Oxford and... -
Modularity and Dynamics on Complex Networks by Renaud Lambiotte
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £15.48Complex networks are typically not homogeneous, as they tend to display an array of structures at different scales. A feature that has attracted a lot of research is their modular organisation, i.e., networks may often be considered as being composed of... -
Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity by James Sethna
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.82In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics... -
Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers by Victor Galitski
Booksplease Price: £74.86A series of seminal technological revolutions has led to a new generation of electronic devices miniaturized to such tiny scales where the strange laws of quantum physics come into play. There is no doubt that, unlike scientists and engineers of the... -
Path Integrals For Stochastic Processes: An Introduction by Horacio Sergio Wio
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.78This book provides an introductory albeit solid presentation of path integration techniques as applied to the field of stochastic processes. The subject began with the work of Wiener during the 1920's, corresponding to a sum over random trajectories,... -
Renormalization: An Introduction to Renormalization, the Renormalization Group and the Operator-Product Expansion by John C. Collins 9781009401791
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £30.40Many numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics are made possible by exploiting the discovery that simplifications can happen when phenomena are investigated on short distance and time scales. This book provides a coherent... -
Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry: A Basic Exposition of Classical Mechanical Systems by Jerrold E. Marsden 9780387986432
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £72.22Symmetry has always played an important role in mechanics, from fundamental formulations of basic principles to concrete applications. The theme of the book is to develop the basic theory and applications of mechanics with an emphasis on the role of... -
Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: Linear Irreversible Processes by No^D"elle Pottier 9780199556885
Booksplease Price: £99.46While systems at equilibrium are treated in a unified manner through the partition function formalism, the statistical physics of out-of-equilibrium systems covers a large variety of situations that are often without apparent connection. This book... -
Computation and its Limits by Paul Cockshott 9780198729129
Booksplease Price: £40.30Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms... -
Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence by Horatiu Nastase 9781107085855
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £57.27Providing a pedagogical introduction to the rapidly developing field of AdS/CFT correspondence, this is one of the first texts to provide an accessible introduction to all the necessary concepts needed to engage with the methods, tools and applications... -
Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics by Jean Bricmont
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.80Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics. They also wonder what entropy really is: Is... -
Symmetries, Lie Algebras and Representations: A Graduate Course for Physicists by Jurgen Fuchs
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £76.10This is an introduction to Lie algebras and their applications in physics. The first three chapters show how Lie algebras arise naturally from symmetries of physical systems and illustrate through examples much of their general structure. Chapters 4 to... -
Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks by Masud Chaichian
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.92This book is the second edition of an excellent undergraduate-level overview of classical and modern physics, intended for students of physics and related subjects, and also perfectly suited for the education of physics teachers. The twelve-chapter book... -
The Energetics of Computing in Life and Machines by David H Wolpert 9781947864184
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947864184Author David H WolpertFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Santa Fe Institute PressPublisher Santa Fe Institute PressWeight(grams)... -
Essential Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences by K. F. Riley
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.85The mathematical methods that physical scientists need for solving substantial problems in their fields of study are set out clearly and simply in this tutorial-style textbook. Students will develop problem-solving skills through hundreds of worked... -
Geometry, Symmetries, and Classical Physics: A Mosaic by Manousos Markoutsakis 9780367541415
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £41.92This book provides advanced undergraduate physics and mathematics students with an accessible yet detailed understanding of the fundamentals of differential geometry and symmetries in classical physics. Readers, working through the book, will obtain a... -
A First Guide to Computational Modelling in Physics by Pawel Scharoch 9781009413107
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.57This innovative text helps demystify numerical modelling for early-stage physics and engineering students. It takes a hands-on, project-based approach, with each chapter focusing on an intriguing physics problem taken from classical mechanics,... -
String Theory and Particle Physics: An Introduction to String Phenomenology by Luis E. Ibanez 9780521517522
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £47.53String theory is one of the most active branches of theoretical physics and has the potential to provide a unified description of all known particles and interactions. This book is a systematic introduction to the subject, focused on the detailed... -
The Theory of Thermodynamics by J.R. Waldram 9780521287968
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £48.87This 1985 textbook presents the theory of thermodynamics in a highly interesting way. The presentation of the theory of heat is logical, compact and uncluttered, with an emphasis on the underlying physical model. Unlike other texts published at this... -
Path Integral Methods And Their Applications by Dinkar C. Khandekar 9789810205638
Booksplease Price: £70.25This book presents the major developments in this field with emphasis on application of path integration methods in diverse areas. After introducing the concept of path integrals, related topics like random walk, Brownian motion and Wiener integrals are... -
Complex Networks: Principles, Methods and Applications by Vito Latora
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £61.59Networks constitute the backbone of complex systems, from the human brain to computer communications, transport infrastructures to online social systems and metabolic reactions to financial markets. Characterising their structure improves our... -
A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Alexandre J. Chorin 9780387979182
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.20Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of interest in the modern as weil as the clas sical techniques of applied... -
Statistical Field Theory: An Introduction to Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Physics by Giuseppe Mussardo 9780198788102
Booksplease Price: £118.01Fundamental concepts of phase transitions, such as order parameters, spontaneous symmetry breaking, scaling transformations, conformal symmetry and anomalous dimensions, have deeply changed the modern vision of many areas of physics, leading to... -
Vector and Complex Calculus: A Textbook for Students of the Physical Sciences by Prof Fabian Waleffe 9780198927822
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.72Vector and complex calculus are essential for applications to electromagnetism, fluid and solid mechanics, and the differential geometry of surfaces. Moving beyond the limits of standard multivariable calculus courses, this comprehensive textbook takes... -
Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects by Alex Vilenkin 9780521654760
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.71Now in paperback, this book is the first comprehensive and coherent introduction to the role of cosmic strings and other topological defects in the universe. This study has been one of the major driving forces in cosmology over the last decade, and lies... -
The Strategy of the Genes C.H. Waddington 9781138998131
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £42.76First published in 1957, this essential classic work bridged the gap between analytical and theoretical biology, thus setting the insights of the former in a context which more sensitively reflects the ambiguities surrounding many of its core concepts... -
Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief by Wolfgang Smith 9781735967790
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735967790Author Wolfgang SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Philos-Sophia Initiative FoundationPublisher Philos-Sophia Initiative...