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| 541 |
Meir Hemmo |
Road to Maxwell's demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics |
024635 |
2012 |
Book |
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| 542 |
Oliver Davis Johns |
Analytical mechanics for relativity and quantum mechanics |
024069 |
2011 |
Book |
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| 543 |
O. L. de Lange |
Solved problems in classical mechanics: Analytical and numerical solutions with comments |
024099 |
2010 |
Book |
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| 544 |
David J. Toms |
Schwinger action principle and effective action |
023426 |
2007 |
Book |
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| 545 |
Tulsi Dass |
Mathematical methods in classical and quantum physics |
022902 |
1998 |
Book |
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| 546 |
Javier E. Hasbun |
Classical mechanics: With MATLAB applications |
022738 |
2010 |
Book |
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| 547 |
Jeremy Butterfield (ed.) |
Philosophy of physics Part A |
022744 |
2007 |
Book |
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| 548 |
Alisa Boklich |
Reexamining the quantum-classical relation: Beyond reductionism and pluralism |
022364 |
2008 |
Book |
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| 549 |
R. Douglas Gregory |
Classical mechanics: An undergraduate text |
021019 |
2006 |
Book |
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| 550 |
Iro, Harald |
Modern approach to classical mechanics |
020866 |
2003 |
Book |
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| Title | Road to Maxwell's demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics |
| Author(s) | Meir Hemmo ;Orly R. Shenker |
| Publication | Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
| Description | xii, 327p. |
| Abstract Note | Time asymmetric phenomena are successfully predicted by statistical mechanics. Yet the foundations of this theory are surprisingly shaky. Its explanation for the ease of mixing milk with coffee is incomplete, and even implies that un-mixing them should be just as easy. In this book the authors develop a new conceptual foundation for statistical mechanics that addresses this difficulty. Explaining the notions of macrostates, probability, measurement, memory, and the arrow of time in statistical mechanics, they reach the startling conclusion that Maxwell's Demon, the famous perpetuum mobile, is consistent with the fundamental physical laws. Mathematical treatments are avoided where possible, and instead the authors use novel diagrams to illustrate the text. This is a fascinating book for graduate students and researchers interested in the foundations and philosophy of physics. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781107019683 : UKP 60.00(HB) |
| Classification | 531.19
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| Keyword(s) | 1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
4. ENTROPY
5. MACROSTATES
6. MAXWELLS DEMON
7. MEASUREMENT
8. PROBABILITY
9. THERMODYNAMICS
10. TIME
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| Title | Analytical mechanics for relativity and quantum mechanics |
| Author(s) | Oliver Davis Johns |
| Publication | New York, Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Description | xxii, 629p. |
| Abstract Note | Analytical Mechanics for Relativity and Quantum Mechanics is an innovative and mathematically sound treatment of the foundations of analytical mechanics and the relation of classical mechanics to relativity and quantum theory. It is intended for use at the introductory graduate level. A distinguishing feature of the book is its integration of special relativity into teaching of classical mechanics. After a thorough review of the traditional theory, Part II of the book introduces extended Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods that treat time as a transformable coordinate rather than the fixed parameter of Newtonian physics. Advanced topics such as covariant Langrangians and Hamiltonians, canonical transformations, and Hamilton-Jacobi methods are simplified by the use of this extended theory. And the definition of canonical transformation no longer excludes the Lorenz transformation of special relativity.
This is also a book for those who study analytical mechanics to prepare for a critical exploration of quantum mechanics. Comparisons to quantum mechanics appear throughout the text. The extended Hamiltonian theory with time as a coordinate is compared to Dirac's formalism of primary phase space constraints. The chapter on relativistic mechanics shows how to use covariant Hamiltonian theory to write the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations. The chapter on Hamilton-Jacobi theory includes a discussion of the closely related Bohm hidden variable model of quantum mechanics. Classical mechanics itself is presented with an emphasis on methods, such as linear vector operators and dyadics, that will familiarize the student with similar techniques in quantum theory. Several of the current fundamental problems in theoretical physics - the development of quantum information technology, and the problem of quantizing the gravitational field, to name two - require a rethinking of the quantum-classical connection.
Graduate students preparing for research careers will find a graduate mechanics course based on this book to be an essential bridge between their undergraduate training and advanced study in analytical mechanics, relativity, and quantum mechanics. |
| ISBN,Price | 9780198567264 : UKP 110.00(HB) |
| Classification | 530.145.6
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ANALYTICAL MECHANICS
2. CANONICAL TRANSFORMS
3. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
4. HAMILTONIAN MECHANICS
5. LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS
6. MECHANICS
7. QUANTUM MECHANICS
8. RELATIVITY
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| Title | Solved problems in classical mechanics: Analytical and numerical solutions with comments |
| Author(s) | O. L. de Lange;J. Pierrus |
| Publication | New York, Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description | vii, 599p. |
| Abstract Note | Apart from an introductory chapter giving a brief summary of Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics, this book consists entirely of questions and solutions on topics in classical mechanics that will be encountered in undergraduate and graduate courses. These include one-, two-, and three- dimensional motion; linear and nonlinear oscillations; energy, potentials, momentum, and angular momentum; spherically symmetric potentials; multi-particle systems; rigid bodies; translation and rotation of the reference frame; the relativity principle and some of its consequences. The solutions are followed by a set of comments intended to stimulate inductive reasoning and provide additional information of interest. Both analytical and numerical (computer) techniques are used obtain and analyze solutions. The computer calculations use Mathematica (version 7), and the relevant code is given in the text. It includes use of the interactive Manipulate function which enables one to observe simulated motion on a computer screen, and to study the effects of changing parameters. |
| ISBN,Price | 9780199582518 : UKP 32.95(PB) |
| Classification | 531
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| Keyword(s) | 1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
2. MECHANICS
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| 024099 |
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| Title | Modern approach to classical mechanics |
| Author(s) | Harald Iro |
| Publication | New Jersey, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2003. |
| Description | xii, 442p. |
| Contents Note | The first German edition of this book appeared in 1993, published by the Universitatsverlag R, Trauner, Linz, Austria; then in 1999, after two more revised German editions, a Ukrainian edition was published by the National Ivan Franko University in Lviv, Ukraine. |
| ISBN,Price | 9812382135 : US$ 70.00 |
| Classification | 531
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| Keyword(s) | 1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
2. FIRST INTEGRAL
3. GREEN'S FUNCTIONS
4. HAMILTONIAN-JACOBI THEORY
5. LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS
6. LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS
7. PHASE SPACE
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