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Introduction to Modern Optics - Grant R. Fowles
Title: Introduction to Modern Optics
Author: Grant R. Fowles
Pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; 2 edition (June 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486659577
ISBN-13: 978-0486659572
Book Description
A complete basic undergraduate-level course in modern optics for students in physics, technology and engineering. The first half deals with classical physical optics; the second, the quantum nature of light. Many applications of the laser [...]
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle - John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler, John A. Wheeler
Title: The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
Authors: John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler, John A. Wheeler
Pages: 726 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 6, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198519494
ISBN-13: 978-0198519492
Book Description
What is the significance of mankind in the Universe? Ever since Copernicus, scientists have been moving man further and further from his lofty position at the center of Creation. [...]
Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity - Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler
Title: Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity
Authors: Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler
Pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings (July 22, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 020138423X
ISBN-13: 978-0201384239
Book Description
A concise, direct examination of general relativity and black holes, Exploring Black Holes provides tools that motivate tools that motivate readers to become active participants in carrying out their own investigations [...]
Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology - Faiz M Khan
Title: Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology
Author: Faiz M Khan
Pages: 527 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2 edition (October 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781785413
ISBN-13: 978-0781785419
Book Description
Completely updated for its Second Edition, this text is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art treatment planning techniques in radiation oncology. The book provides the treatment planning team–radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and medical [...]
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang
Title: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Authors: Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang
Pages: 675 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (September 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521635039
ISBN-13: 978-0521635035
Book Description
This text is the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new cross-disciplinary field which utilizes the strange effects of quantum mechanics to enable information processing and computing feats that would be [...]
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: Schrodinger Equation And Path Integral - Harald J. W. Muller-Kirsten
Title: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: Schrodinger Equation And Path Integral
Author: Harald J. W. Muller-Kirsten
Pages: 828 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company (March 3, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9812566910
ISBN-13: 978-9812566911
Book Description
After a consideration of basic quantum mechanics, this introduction aims at a side by side treatment of fundamental applications of the Schrödinger equation on the one hand and the [...]
Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, and Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, Third Edition - Hagen Kleinert
Title: Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, and Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, Third Edition
Author: Hagen Kleinert
Pages: 1504 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 3 edition (March 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9812381074
ISBN-13: 978-9812381071
Book Description
Offers the theory and applications of path integrals, solving them in a variety of non-trivial quantum-mechanical systems. Also discusses the relevance of path integrals to [...]
Hidden Unity in Nature’s Laws - John C. Taylor
Title: Hidden Unity in Nature’s Laws
Author: John C. Taylor
Pages: 504 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (October 15, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521659388
ISBN-13: 978-0521659383
Book Description
One of the paradoxes of the physical sciences is that as our knowledge has progressed, more and more diverse physical phenomena can be explained in terms of fewer underlying principles. In Hidden Unity, [...]
An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements - John R. Taylor
Title: An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements
Author: John R. Taylor
Pages: 327 pages
Publisher: University Science Books; 2nd edition (August 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 093570275X
ISBN-13: 978-0935702750
Book Description
This best-selling text by John Taylor, now released in its second edition, introduces the study of uncertainties to lower division science students. Assuming no prior knowledge, the [...]
Chaos In The Cosmos: New Insights Into The Universe - Barry Parker
Title: Chaos In The Cosmos: New Insights Into The Universe
Author: Barry Parker
Pages: 320 pages
Publisher: Basic Books (September 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0738206318
ISBN-13: 978-0738206318
Book Description
The concept of chaos has brought a revolution to modern science. In place of their once confident pretensions to complete knowledge of the universe–at least theoretically–scientists have been forced by chaos to admit that [...]