Introduction to Statistical Physics (Mathematics and Its Applications)

Introduction to Statistical Physics (Mathematics and Its Applications)
William Geraint V. Rosser | 1981-01-31 00:00:00 | Ellis Horwood Ltd , Publisher | 396 | Physics
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Wave Fields in Real Media, Volume 38, Second Edition

Wave Fields in Real Media, Volume 38, Second Edition
J. Jose M. Carcione | 2007-01-01 00:00:00 | Elsevier Science | 538 | Physics
This book examines the differences between an ideal and a real description of wave propagation, where ideal means an elastic (lossless), isotropic and single-phase medium, and real means an anelastic, anisotropic and multi-phase medium. The analysis starts by introducing the relevant stress-strain relation. This relation and the equations of momentum conservation are combined to give the equation of motion. The differential formulation is written in terms of memory variables, and Biot's theory is used to describe wave propagation in porous media. For each rheology, a plane-wave analysis is performed in order to understand the physics of wave propagation. The book contains a review of the main direct numerical methods for solving the equation of motion in the time and space domains. The emphasis is on geophysical applications for seismic exploration, but researchers in the fields of earthquake seismology, rock acoustics, and material science - including many branches of acoustics of fluids and solids - may also find this text useful.

* Presents the fundamentals of wave propagation in anisotropic, anelastic and porus media
* Contains a new chapter on the analogy between acoustic and electromagnetic waves, incorporating the subject of electromagnetic waves
* Emphasizes geophysics, particularly, seismic exploration for hydrocarbon reservoirs, which is essential for exploration and production of oil
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High-Temperature Measurements of Materials

High-Temperature Measurements of Materials
Hiroyuki Fukuyama, Yoshio Waseda | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Springer | 210 | Physics
This book titled High-Temperature Measurements of Materials is the 11th volume in the series “Advances in Materials Research” edited by Professors Hiroyuki Fukuyama and Yoshio Waseda. The book is composed of nine chapters, the contents of which try to solve the currently important basic problems in high-temperature melts from scientific basics to real application fields related to industrial problems. The contents of this present volume are expected to contribute to solving the most important problem of sustainability of the global society by applying recent high-level scientific and engineering researches in materials science.
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Methods of Electronic-Structure Calculations: From Molecules to Solids

Methods of Electronic-Structure Calculations: From Molecules to Solids
Michael Springborg | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 | Wiley | 516 | Physics
Methods of Electronic-Structure Calculations From Molecules to Solids Michael Springborg Department of , University of Konstanz, Germany Electronic-structure calculations of the properties of specific materials have become increasingly important over the last 30 years. Although several books on the subject have been published, it is rare to find one that covers in detail both the traditional quantum and the solid-state physics methods of electronic-structure calculations. This title bridges that gap, focusing equally on both types of method, including density-functional and Hartree-Fock-based approaches. The book is aimed at final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students of both and of physics. It describes in detail the fundamentals behind the various methods that are used in calculating electronic properties of materials, and that to some extent are commercially available. It should also be of interest to professional scientists working in related theoretical or experimental fields.
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The Multifaceted Skyrmion

The Multifaceted Skyrmion
Gerald E. Brown | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | World Scientific Publishing Company | 460 | Physics
This is a sequel to the World Scientific volume edited by Gerald E Brown in 1994 entitled "Selected Papers", with Commentary, of 'Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme'. There has been a series of impressive developments in the application of the skyrmion structure to wide-ranging physical phenomena. The first volume was mainly focused on the rediscovery of the skyrmion in 1983 in the context of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and on its striking role in nuclear physics. Since 1994, skyrmions have been found to play an even greater role not only in various aspects of particle physics and astrophysics but also most remarkably in condensed matter physics. It is also proving to be fruitful in dense hadronic matter relevant to compact stars, a system difficult to access by other approaches. The recent discovery of holographic baryons in gravity/gauge duality which correspond to skyrmions in the infinite tower of vector mesons provides a valuable confrontation of string theory with nature, particularly in the regime of strong coupling that QCD proper has difficulty in accessing. This volume consists of contributions from the active researchers who have made important progress in these three areas of theoretical physics - condensed matter physics, nuclear and particle physics, and string theory.
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Directions in Physics

Directions in Physics
P.A.M. Dirac | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | 108 | Physics
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"Directions in Physics" constist of edited transcripts of 5 lectures given by Professor Dirac when he was visiting Australia and New Zealand in 1975.

The five lectures are about:

1. The development of quantum mechanics.

2. Quantum electrodynamics.

3. Magnetic monopoles.

4. A positive energy, relativistic wave equation.

5. Cosmology and the gravitational constant.

In my opinion, Dirac is one of the greatest physicist ever. This book gives a unique insight his way of doing science, in which mathematical beauty plays an important role.

Lecture #1 is also very nice because Dirac has experienced much of the development of quantum mechanics himself, making him an authority on the area.

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Optofluidics: Fundamentals, Devices and Applications

Optofluidics: Fundamentals, Devices and Applications
Yeshaiahu Fainman, Luke P.Lee, Demetri Psaltis, Changhuei Yang | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Yeshaiahu Fainman, Luke P.Lee, Demetri Psaltis, Changhuei Yang | 545 | Physics
The term ”optofluidics” was coined in 2003 to define an emergent research field that focuses on combining microfluidic and optical technology. In the space of 5 years, this terminology has become widely adopted and applied as a categorical descriptor for a large number of research directions. The input of the term “optofluidic” in Google yields around 24,000 webpage results. It is certainly true that some of the research projects that have adopted “optofluidics” as part of their descriptor could have evolved independently. After all, we can find examples of research projects that combine fluidics and optics that predated the genesis of “optofluidics”— the electrowetting lens (Chap. 9) is an excellent example. However, the large number and wide variety of “optofluidic”-themed research projects that have cropped up over the past 5 years indicate that the definition of optofluidics as a field is causally linked to the proliferation of at least a few such projects. Once the seed idea of combining the advantages of microfluidics and optics was formally defined, it did not take long for the concept to take hold in the minds of researchers and germinate prolifically. The optofluidic microscope (Chap. 11) and optofluidic lasers (Chap. 10) are some of the projects for which causal links between the birth of the term “optofluidics” and the initiation of the projects can be traced.
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein | 2006-01-01 00:00:00 | Nabu Press | 196 | Physics
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's presentation of his landmark theory According to Einstein himself, this book is intended to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. When he wrote the book in 1916, Einstein's name was scarcely known outside the physics institutes. Having just completed his masterpiece, The General Theory of Relativity?which provided a brand-new theory of gravity and promised a new perspective on the cosmos as a whole?he set out at once to share his excitement with as wide a public as possible in this popular and accessible book. * First time in Penguin Classics * New introduction by bestselling science author Nigel Calder
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The Energy Machine

The Energy Machine
Joseph Newman | 1984-01-01 00:00:00 | Joseph Westley Newman | 338 | Physics
Excerpts from book's Preface: "During these last 19 years, I have taught myself physics, chemistry, electrical engineering and astronomy. The result of my years of research (which proposes a Unified Field Theory concerning all physical phenomena) has been a continuing and expanding thesis that I have written in a manner to which the present scientific community is on accustomed.... However, it is my earnest belief that my method will serve a most beneficial improvement in the future development and progress of Science and the human species - which, if not in the present, will in the future be greatly appreciated by those who will follow after us and look to you and me for a smoother road through life....It would appear that nuclear and magnetic forces are electromagnetic energy and possess mechanical-like characteristics which can be predicted and explained. The proof of the truth of the statement lies within this Book which I have written following 19 years of work and research."
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States of Matter (Dover Phoenix Editions)

States of Matter (Dover Phoenix Editions)
David L. Goodstein | 2002-05-01 00:00:00 | Dover Pubns | 512 | Physics
In this enlightening and highly rewarding hardcover text, David L. Goodstein, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, offers serious students a much needed "overview of the study of matter, and a feeling for those concepts that are applied with more or less success in all the various fields" of science. Focusing his survey on "the macroscopic world, from the atom up rather than the nucleus down," the author consistently emphasizes areas where the fruits of research are likely to be applicable in other disciplines. This broad orientation makes States of Matter a valuable adjunct to the study of chemistry, geology, engineering and applied mathematics, as well as physics. Beginning with a chapter covering thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Dr. Goodstein then proceeds to an in-depth discussion of the three basic states--gases, solids and liquids--a few special states and, finally, phase transitions. Perfect gases are discussed in terms of the ideal gas, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics, slightly degenerate perfect gases, electrons in metals and the Bose condensation. Coverage on solids includes heat capacity, normal modes, crystal structures, crystal space and electrons in crystals. Additional chapters describe the structure of a fluid, potential energy, interacting gases and liquids; superfluidity, superconductivity and magnetism; Weiss molecular field theory, the van der Waals equation, scaling laws and other pertinent aspects of phase transitions. Many helpful, illustrative problems appear at the end of each chapter; annotated bibliographies further guide the student who wishes to delve more deeply into the subject. Unabridged, corrected Dover republication of the edition first published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1975. Preface. Annotated bibliography and problems at end of each chapter. 154 figures. 4 tables. Preface

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This book is a very good intro, discussing topics which are rarely found elsewhere. A must have for Graduate/PhD in Solid State Physics.

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Reliability Physics and Engineering: Time-To-Failure Modeling

Reliability Physics and Engineering: Time-To-Failure Modeling
J.W. McPherson | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Springer | 386 | Physics
This book provides the basic Reliability Physics and Engineering tools that are needed by Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Materials Scientists, and Applied Physicists to build better products. The material includes information for engineers to develop better methodologies for producing reliable product designs and materials selections to improve product reliability. Important statistical training and tools are contained within the text. The author emphasizes the physics of failure and the development of reliability engineering models for failure.

The beginning of the book concentrates on device/materials degradation and the development of the critically important time-to-failure models. Since time-to-failure is a statistical process, the needed statistical tools are presented next along with failure-rate modeling. Following that the use of accelerated testing and the modeling of the acceleration factors are presented. The next section focuses on the effective use of these acceleration factors, during initial product-level testing and operation, in order to reduce the expected device failure rate in the field. The important time-to-failure models are presented next for Electrical Engineering applications. Likewise, the next section addresses important time-to-failure models for Mechanical Engineering applications. The final chapters provide both Electrical and Mechanical Engineers with design help specifically, conversion of dynamic/transient stresses into equivalent static forms, establishing aggressive but safe design rules, and the need to look very closely at design and process interactions.
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Plasma Physics, Volume 9A (Methods in Experimental Physics)

Plasma Physics, Volume 9A (Methods in Experimental Physics)
Author Unknown | 1971-01-11 00:00:00 | Academic Press | 490 | Physics

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Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
William H. Cropper | 2004-01-01 00:00:00 | Oxford University Press | 512 | Physics
Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, right up to contemporary figures such as Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, and Stephen Hawking. We meet scientists--all geniuses--who could be gregarious, aloof, unpretentious, friendly, dogged, imperious, generous to colleagues or contentious rivals. As Cropper captures their personalities, he also offers vivid portraits of their great moments of discovery, their bitter feuds, their relations with family and friends, their religious beliefs and education. In addition, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and others--each section beginning with a historical overview. Thus in the section on quantum mechanics, readers can see how the work of Max Planck influenced Niels Bohr, and how Bohr in turn influenced Werner Heisenberg. Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries. With Great Physicists , readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.
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Advanced Statistical Mechanics

Advanced Statistical Mechanics
Barry M McCoy | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Oxford University Press | 632 | Physics
Statistical Mechanics is the study of systems where the number of interacting particles becomes infinite. In the last fifty years tremendous advances have been made which have required the invention of entirely new fields of mathematics such as quantum groups and affine Lie algebras. They have engendered remarkable discoveries concerning non-linear differential equations and algebraic geometry, and have produced profound insights in both condensed matter physics and quantum field theory. Unfortunately, none of these advances are taught in graduate courses in statistical mechanics.

This book is an attempt to correct this problem. It begins with theorems on the existence (and lack) of order for crystals and magnets and with the theory of critical phenomena, and continues by presenting the methods and results of fifty years of analytic and computer computations of phase transitions. It concludes with an extensive presentation of four of the most important of exactly solved problems: the Ising, 8 vertex, hard hexagon and chiral Potts models.

About the Author

Barry M. McCoy is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at C.N.Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the State University of New York. He took his PhD at Harvard University in 1967, and has since had various positions, including the Editorial Board of the Ramanujan Journal, the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics A, Resident at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Miller Professor at University of California at Berkeley. In 1999 he won the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
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An Introduction to Electrospinning and Nanofibers

An Introduction to Electrospinning and Nanofibers
Seeram Ramakrishna, Kazutoshi Fujihara, Wee-Eong Teo, Teik-Cheng Lim, Zuwei Ma | 2005-01-01 00:00:00 | World Scientific | 396 | Physics
Even though research and development related to the electrospinning process and the electrospun nanofibers has increased in recent years, the availability of the corresponding literature is mainly confined to research journals. As a consequence, information on electrospinning process and electrospun nanofibers is comprehensible only for the highly specialized readers. The situation is further compounded as a result of differing approaches and perspectives from various interdisciplinary backgrounds. In spite of the numerous groups throughout the world investigating on electrospinning of nanofibers, the lack of introductory reading materials in this field is felt.
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Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science, 2nd Edition

Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science, 2nd Edition
Adam J. Schwartz, Mukul Kumar, Brent L. Adams, David P | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Springer | 406 | Physics
Electron backscatter diffraction is a very powerful and relatively new materials characterization technique aimed at the determination of crystallographic texture, grain boundary character distributions, lattice strain, phase identification, and much more. The purpose of this book is to provide the fundamental basis for electron backscatter diffraction in materials science, the current state of both hardware and software, and illustrative examples of the applications of electron backscatter diffraction to a wide-range of materials including undeformed and deformed metals and alloys, ceramics, and superconductors.

The text has been substantially revised from the first edition, and the authors have kept the format as close as possible to the first edition text. The new developments covered in this book include a more comphrensive coverage of the fundamentals not covered in the first edition or other books in the field, the advances in hardware and software since the first edition was published, and current examples of application of electron backscatter diffraction to solve challenging problems in materials science and condensed-matter physics.
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Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell

Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell
Princeton University Press | 2008-01-01 00:00:00 | Princeton University Press | 414 | Physics
Covering the fundamentals as well as many special topics of current interest, this is the most concise, up-to-date, and accessible graduate-level textbook on quantum mechanics available. Written by Gerald Mahan, a distinguished research physicist and author of an acclaimed textbook on many-particle physics, Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell is the distillation of many years' teaching experience.

Emphasizing the use of quantum mechanics to describe actual quantum systems such as atoms and solids, and rich with interesting applications, the book proceeds from solving for the properties of a single particle in potential; to solving for two particles (the helium atom); to addressing many-particle systems. Applications include electron gas, magnetism, and Bose-Einstein Condensation; examples are carefully chosen and worked; and each chapter has numerous homework problems, many of them original.

Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell expertly addresses traditional and modern topics, including perturbation theory, WKBJ, variational methods, angular momentum, the Dirac equation, many-particle wave functions, Casimir Force, and Bell's Theorem. And it treats many topics--such as the interactions between photons and electrons, scattering theory, and density functional theory--in exceptional depth.

A valuable addition to the teaching literature, Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell is ideally suited for a two-semester course.

* The most concise, up-to-date, and accessible graduate textbook on the subject
* Contains the ideal amount of material for a two-semester course
* Focuses on the description of actual quantum systems, including a range of applications
* Covers traditional topics, as well as those at the frontiers of research
* Treats in unprecedented detail topics such as photon-electron interaction, scattering theory, and density functional theory
* Includes numerous homework problems at the end of each chapter
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Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics

Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics
Giancoli | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | | 0 | Physics
Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics
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Output Coupling in Optical Cavities and Lasers: A Quantum Theoretical Approach

Output Coupling in Optical Cavities and Lasers: A Quantum Theoretical Approach
Kikuo Ujihara | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Wiley-VCH | 408 | Physics
Authored by one of the founders and major players in this field of research, this is a thorough and comprehensive approach to the quantum mechanical output coupling theory of lasers -- an important area of optical physics that has so far been neglected in the scientific literature.
Clearly structured, the various sections cover one-dimensional optical cavity, laser, and microcavity laser with output coupling, atom-field interaction in a free-dimensional space, 3D analysis of spontaneous emission in a planar microcavity with output coupling, plus two-atom spontaneous emission.
With numerous end-of-chapter problems, this is vital reading for theoretical physicists, laser specialists, and physicists in industry, as well as students and lecturers in physics.
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Subtle is the Lord - The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

Subtle is the Lord - The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Abraham Pais | 1982-01-01 00:00:00 | Oxford University Press, USA | 576 | Physics
Since the death of Albert Einstein in 1955 there have been many books and articles written about the man and a number of attempts to "explain" relativity. In this new major work Abraham Pais, himself an eminent physicist who worked alongside Einstein in the post-war years, traces the development of Einstein's entire oeuvre. This is the first book which deal comprehensively and in depth with Einstein's science, both the successes and the failures. Running through the book is a completely non-scientific biography (identified in the table of contents by italic type) including many letters which appear in English for the first time, as well as other information not published before. Throughout the preparation of this book, Pais has had complete access to the Einstein Archives (now in the possession of the Hebrew University) and the invaluable guidance of the late Helen Dukas--formerly Einstein's private secretary.

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"A monument to sound scholarship and graceful style.... Accurate, witty, and clear as brook water, it is a work against which future scientific biographies will be measured.... Anyone with an interest in Einstein should give this splendid book a try."--The New York Times Book Review

"A coherent account of almost everything of scientific significance that Einstein did.... Unique and indispensable."--Science

"Particularly valuable as the first thorough study in one accessible volume of all of Einstein's major contributions to science.... Remarkably clear as well as authoritative."--The New York Review of Books

"A sympathetic but clear-eyed view of his life and work...examined mainly in his own plentiful papers, supplemented by a remarkably wide list of unusual sources.... A fine book."--Scientific American

"An outstanding biography of Albert Einstein that one finds oneself reading with sheer pleasure."--Physics Today

"The best biography of Einstein."--Jim Holt, The Wall Street Journal
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