Archive for December, 2007
Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, 4th Edition (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering)
Title: Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, 4th Edition (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering)
Authors: Russell K. Hobbie, Bradley J. Roth
Pages: 640 pages
Publisher: Springer; 4th edition (February 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 038730942X
ISBN-13: 978-0387309422
Book Description
Intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in biophysics, physiology, medical physics, cell biology, and biomedical engineering, this wide-ranging text bridges the [...]
How the Laws of Physics Lie - Nancy Cartwright
Title: How the Laws of Physics Lie
Authors: Nancy Cartwright
Pages: 232 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 7, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198247044
ISBN-13: 978-0198247043
Review
`The issues raised are very important and highly controversial … I believe the book to be of importance in inviting philosophers to take a new look at the way physics is actually done, and what [...]
Approaches to Fundamental Physics: An Assessment of Current Theoretical Ideas (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Title: Approaches to Fundamental Physics: An Assessment of Current Theoretical Ideas (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Authors: Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu, Erhard Seiler
Pages: 422 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 12, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540711155
ISBN-13: 978-3540711155
Book Description
This book presents contributions on particle theory, quantum field theory, general relativity, quantum gravity, [...]
Analytical Fluid Dynamics, Second Edition - George Emanuel
Hardcover: 808 pages
Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (December 21, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849391148
ISBN-13: 978-0849391149
Review
The pluses for this book are the precise mathematics, the broad coverage, the increased emphasis on practicality, and the lucid, personable writing styleThe author is a distinguished teacher and scholar of fluid mechanics, [...]
An Introduction to Polymer Physics - David I. Bower
Title: An Introduction to Polymer Physics
Authors: David I. Bower
Pages: 420 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521631378
ISBN-13: 978-0521631372
Review
“This book will be particularly welcome by physicists, but it will also be extremely useful to a much wider audience, ranging from chemists to chemical engineers, to material scientists.” Polymer News
“…an excellent addition to [...]
Unconventional Superconductors: Experimental Investigation of the Order-Parameter Symmetry (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics) - Gernot Goll
Title: Unconventional Superconductors: Experimental Investigation of the Order-Parameter Symmetry (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
Authors: Gernot Goll
Pages: 171 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 21, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540289852
ISBN-13: 978-3540289852
Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive summary of experiments that are especially suited to reveal the order-parameter symmetry of unconventional superconductors. It briefly introduces readers to the basic theoretical [...]
Topics in Strangeness Nuclear Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics) - Petr Bydzovsky, Avraham Gal, Jiri Mares
Title: Topics in Strangeness Nuclear Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Authors: Petr Bydzovsky, Avraham Gal, Jiri Mares
Pages: 194 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (September 10, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540720383
ISBN-13: 978-3540720386
Book Description
Strangeness nuclear physics bears a broad impact on contemporary physics since it lies at the intersection of [...]
Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders (Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei) - A. Quadt
Title: Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders (Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei)
Authors: A. Quadt
Pages: 166 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 12, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540710590
ISBN-13: 978-3540710592
Book Description
More than ten years after its discovery, still relatively little is known about the top quark, [...]
Titanium (Engineering Materials and Processes), Gerd Lütjering, James C. Williams
Title: Titanium (Engineering Materials and Processes)
Authors: Gerd Lütjering, James C. Williams
Pages: 442 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition (June 12, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540713972
ISBN-13: 978-3540713975
Review
“The book has achieved a comprehensive coverage on physical metallurgy and applications of titanium alloys. It would be suitable for varying levels of people from postgraduate students just entering the titanium field, to [...]
Time in Quantum Mechanics. Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Physics), 2nd Edition
Title: Time in Quantum Mechanics. Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Authors: Gonzalo Muga, R. Sala Mayato, Inigo Egusquiza
Pages: 456 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition (December 20, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540734724
ISBN-13: 978-3540734727
Book Description
The treatment of time in quantum mechanics is still an important and challenging open question in the foundation of the quantum theory. This book describes [...]