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Enns, Richard H |
Laboratory Manual for Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers |
I01786 |
1997 |
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Glimm, James |
Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics |
I01622 |
1985 |
eBook |
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Wick, David |
The Infamous Boundary |
I01295 |
1995 |
eBook |
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MILLER |
Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th-Century Physics |
I01241 |
1984 |
eBook |
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FRAMPTON |
First Workshop on Grand Unification |
I01002 |
1980 |
eBook |
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Garber, Elizabeth |
The Language of Physics |
I00992 |
1999 |
eBook |
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GOLDBERG |
Understanding Relativity |
I00616 |
1984 |
eBook |
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MILLER |
Frontiers of Physics: 1900???1911 |
I00542 |
1986 |
eBook |
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FIELD |
The Invisible Universe |
I00514 |
1985 |
eBook |
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Shvartsburg, Alex |
Impulse Time-Domain Electromagnetics of Continuous Media |
I00411 |
1999 |
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| Title | Laboratory Manual for Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers |
| Author(s) | Enns, Richard H;McGuire, George |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1997. |
| Description | XII, 136 p. 88 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Science demands that all theory must be checked by experiment. Richard Feyn?? man, Nobel Laureate in physics (1965), reminds us in a wonderful quote that "The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of sci?? entific truth. " 1 It is because nonlinear physics can be so profoundly counter?? intuitive that these laboratory investigations are so important. This manual is designed to be used with the text Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers. Understanding is enhanced when experiments are used to check so please attempt as many of the activities as you can. As you perform theory, these activities, we hope that you will be amazed and startled by strange behav?? ior, intrigued and terrorized by new ideas, and be able to amaze your friends as you relate your strange sightings! Remember that imagination is just as impor?? tant as knowledge, so exercise yours whenever possible. But please be careful, as nonlinear activities can be addicting, can provide fond memories, and can awaken an interest that lasts a lifetime. Although it has been said that a rose by any other name is still a rose, (with apologies to Shakespeare) the authors of this laboratory manual have, in an endeavor to encourage the use of these nonlinear investigations, called them experimental activities rather than experiments. A number of design innovations have been introduced: A |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461224389 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Measurement Science and Instrumentation
6. Measurement??????
7. Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation
8. PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
9. PHYSICS
10. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
11. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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| Title | Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics : Expositions |
| Author(s) | Glimm, James;Jaffe, Arthur |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1985. |
| Description | VII, 418 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume contains a selection of expository articles on quantum field theory and statistical mechanics by James Glimm and Arthur Jaffe. They include a solution of the original interacting quantum field equations and a description of the physics which these equations contain. Quantum fields were proposed in the late 1920s as the natural framework which combines quantum theory with relativ?? ity. They have survived ever since. The mathematical description for quantum theory starts with a Hilbert space H of state vectors. Quantum fields are linear operators on this space, which satisfy nonlinear wave equations of fundamental physics, including coupled Dirac, Max?? well and Yang-Mills equations. The field operators are restricted to satisfy a "locality" requirement that they commute (or anti-commute in the case of fer?? mions) at space-like separated points. This condition is compatible with finite propagation speed, and hence with special relativity. Asymptotically, these fields converge for large time to linear fields describing free particles. Using these ideas a scattering theory had been developed, based on the existence of local quantum fields |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461251583 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ALGEBRA
2. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
3. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Field theory (Physics)
7. Field Theory and Polynomials
8. QUANTUM PHYSICS
9. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
10. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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| Title | The Infamous Boundary : Seven Decades of Controversy in Quantum Physics |
| Author(s) | Wick, David |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1995. |
| Description | XII, 244 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | reprinted in the British trade journal Physics World in 1990, three separate and 5 lengthy replies from establishment physicists were printed in subsequent issues. For outsiders, especially scientists who rely on physicist's theories in their own fields, this situation is disquieting. Moreover, many recall their introduction to quantum mechanics as a startling, if not shocking, experience. A molecular biologist related how he had started in theoretical physics but, after hearing the ideology of quantum mechanics, marched straight to the Reg?? istrar's office and switched fields. A colleague recalled how her undergraduate chemistry professor religiously entertained queries from the class - until one day he began with the words: "No questions will be permitted on today's lecture." The topic, of course, was quantum mechanics. My father, an organic chemist at a Midwestern university, also had to give that dreaded annual lecture. Around age 16, I picked up a little book he used to prepare and was perplexed by the author's tone, which seemed apologetic to the point of pleading. It was my first brush with the quantum theory. 6 Eventually, I went to graduate school in physics. By then I had acquired an historical bent, which developed out of an episode in my freshman year in college. To relieve the tedium of the introductory physics course, I set out to understand Einstein's theory of relativity (the so-called Special Theory of 1905, not the later and more difficult General Theory of 1915). This went badly at first |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461253617 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Mathematical Methods in Physics
4. PHYSICS
5. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | First Workshop on Grand Unification : New England Center University of New Hampshire April 10???12, 1980 |
| Author(s) | FRAMPTON |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1980. |
| Description | X, 372 p. 10 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This workshop held at the New England Center provided a timely opportunity for over 100 participants to gather in a unique environment and discuss the present status of the unification of strong and electroweak forces. One reason for the timeliness was perhaps that experiments of the seventies had already lent confirmation to the separate theories of strong and of electroweak forces, so that for the eighties it now seems especially compelling to attempt the grand unification of these two forces. Also, the planned experiments to search for proton decay and the new experiments which are suggestive, though not yet conclusive, of non-zero neutrino rest masses add further stimulus to the theory. Thus, the workshop provided an ideal forum for exchange of ideas amongst active physicists. The presentations at the workshop covered the present status of both theory and experiment with a strong interplay. Also, there were presentations from the discipline of astrophysics which is becoming very intertwined with that of high-energy physics especially when in the latter one is addressing energies and temperatures that were extant only in the first nanosecond of the universe. On experiment, we heard a comprehensive coverage of the four United States proton decay experiments. The Brookhaven-Irvine-Michigan experiment in the Morton Salt Mine at Fairport Harbor, Ohio was discussed by LARRY SULAK, while DAVID WINN talked on the Harvard-Purdue-Wisconsin effort in the Silver King Mine, Utah. MARVIN MARSHAK and RICHARD STEINBERG described respectively the Soudan Mine, Minnesot~ and the Homestake Mine, South Dakot~experiments |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468469035 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
4. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
5. STRING THEORY
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| Title | The Language of Physics : The Calculus and the Development of Theoretical Physics in Europe, 1750???1914 |
| Author(s) | Garber, Elizabeth |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1999. |
| Description | XIX, 399 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the "language" of physics, the connections between these independent disciplines have been far more complex and intimate than previous narratives have shown. This study encompasses engagements across discipline boundaries and many nations rom the ear of Euler and Bernoulli o that of Hilbert and Einstein. At all times physicists and mathematicians retained their distinct sets of disciplinary standards and goals. Interactions within historical ears are handled using the standards of the time to define mathematics and physics. In this context, the works of Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Jacobi, William Thomson, Maxwell, Helmholtz, and many others are discussed, and by 1870, it is evident that the essentials of modern theoretical physics are in place. The epilogue, spanning the decades from 1870 to the First World War, deals with the decline of these interactions and the building of new connections. It is particularly significant that these new patterns of interactions became paradigmatic for the rest of the twentieth century. The unique perspectives concerning the history of theoretical physics will undoubtedly cause some raised eyebrows, as the author convincingly demonstrates that practices, methods, and language shaped the development of the field, and are a key to understanding the mergence of the modern academic discipline. Mathematicians and physicists, as well as historians of both disciplines, will find this provocative work of great interest |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461217664 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Historical linguistics
4. HISTORY
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. History of Mathematical Sciences
7. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
8. Mathematical Methods in Physics
9. MATHEMATICS
10. PHYSICS
11. Physics, general
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| Title | Understanding Relativity : Origin and Impact of a Scientific Revolution |
| Author(s) | GOLDBERG |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1984. |
| Description | XVII, 494 p. 26 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The central subject matter of this book is Einstein's special theory of relativiry. While it is a book that is written primarily for a lay audience this does not necessarily mean an audience not versed in the ways of doing science. Rather, this book is written for anyone wishing to consider the nature of the scientific enterprise: where ideas come from, how they become established and accepted, what the relationships are among theories, predictions, and measurements, or the relationship between ideas in a scientific theory and the values held to be important within the larger culture. Some readers will find it strange that I raise any of these issues. It is a common view in our culture that the status of knowledge within science is totally different from the status of knowledge in other areas of human endeavor. The word "science" stems from the Latin word meaning "to know" and indeed, knowledge which scientists acquire in their work is commonly held to be certain, unyielding, and absolute. Consider how we use the adjective "scientific. " There are investors and there are scientific investors. There are socialists and there are scientific socialists. There are exterminators and there are scientific exterminators. We all know how the modifier "scientific" inttudes in our daily life. It is the purpose of this book to challenge the belief that scientific knowledge is different from other kinds of knowledge |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468467321 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
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4. GRAVITATION
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. PHYSICS
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| Title | Frontiers of Physics: 1900???1911 : Selected Essays |
| Author(s) | MILLER |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1986. |
| Description | XXVI, 294 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | P. W. Bridgman and the Special Theory oj Relativity Ey W. Bridgman wrote A S,phi,ticati< him" (1962) for the reader "who feels the need to stand back a little for a critical scrutiny of what he has really got" (SP, p. 3). * This was his personal trademark as physicist and philoso?? pher and it is present everywhere in Bridgman's precis of special relativity theory. The reissue of Sophisticate's Primer is particularly wel?? come for it exhibits a quest for clarity in foundations in the style of Ernst Mach and Henri Poincare, in whose philo- ??? N.B. Papers and books are here cited as follows. Bridgman (1927) refers to Bridgman's book The Logic of Modern Physics in the bibliography. Cross-references to Sophisticate's Primer are indicated with the code (SP, p. "'). Bridgman's extant manuscripts are on deposit at the Harvard University Archives, and here cited by date, for example (MS 2 August 1959, p .... ). Some of the manuscripts were written over a period of days, with sequential paging, with the actual dates indicated. Full citations are given in the bibliography. I am grateful to the Harvard University Archives for permission to quote from these materials, and to Bridgman's daughter, Mrs. Jane Koopman, for permitting me to quote from the draft manuscripts of Sophisticate's Primer, which will be deposited in the Harvard Archives. Reprinted from P. W. Bridgman. Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity, Second Edition. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983 |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468405484 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
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3. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
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| Title | Impulse Time-Domain Electromagnetics of Continuous Media |
| Author(s) | Shvartsburg, Alex |
| Publication | Boston, MA, 1. Birkh??user Boston
2. Imprint: Birkh??user, 1999. |
| Description | XV, 168 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | tion of fields as a product of coordinate-dependent and time-dependent factors. The temporal variations of both media and fields are given by Fourier expansions. The successes of radiotechnique provided fertile ground for the dominance of sinusoidal waves in wave physics. This approach proved to be a powerful the?? oretical tool, since researchers were dealing with long trains of slowly varying quasi-monochromatic waves. However, the success of this concept and the stan?? dardizability of related designs engendered a peculiar psychological hypnosis of Fourier electromagnetics, which took over as a model for wave phenomena in such cross-discipIlnary areas of physics as optics and acoustics. Yet in providing a description of alternating fields, the presentation of such fields in terms of traveling waves with frequency wand wave number k is not a law of nature. One can see that such a presentation is not even a logical corollary of Maxwell's equations. What is more, this approach has become inadequate today for the analysis of fields excited by ultrashort transients in continuous media |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461207733 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Mathematics
2. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
6. Mathematical and Computational Engineering
7. Mathematical Methods in Physics
8. MECHANICS
9. Mechanics, Applied
10. PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
11. PHYSICS
12. Solid Mechanics
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