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Spurio, Maurizio |
The Fundamentals of Newtonian Mechanics |
I12919 |
2023 |
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Petrov, Albert |
Introduction to Modified Gravity |
I12903 |
2023 |
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Pfeifer, Christian |
Modified and Quantum Gravity |
I12848 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Benhar, Omar |
Structure and Dynamics of Compact Stars |
I12831 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Maes, Christian |
Facts of Matter and Light |
I12799 |
2023 |
eBook |
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K??????ek, Michal |
Mathematical Aspects of Paradoxes in Cosmology |
I12788 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Kenath, Arun |
Physics of Gravitational Waves |
I12635 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Ramond, Paul |
The First Law of Mechanics in General Relativity & Isochrone Orbits in Newtonian Gravity |
I12633 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Friedman, Yaakov |
A Novel Approach to Relativistic Dynamics |
I12611 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Trad Nery, Marina |
Laser Power Stabilization via Radiation Pressure |
I12548 |
2022 |
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| Title | The Fundamentals of Newtonian Mechanics : For an Introductory Approach to Modern Physics |
| Author(s) | Spurio, Maurizio |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. |
| Description | XIX, 390 p. 151 illus., 140 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Classical mechanics is the basis for any university-level study of technical-scientific disciplines. But most existing manuals use a technological and engineering approach, with basic aspects sometimes insufficiently highlighted. This book introduces the concepts and applications of classical mechanics into Newtonian formalism. Newtonian dynamics is useful for solving applied physics and engineering problems, but also a fascinating theory anchored in questions posed since the times of the Greek philosophers, regarding space, the flow of time, measurable physical quantities, the physical principles with the mathematical structure needed to describe the Universe, etc. The author aims to encourage students to think about these fundamental aspects and how they will be addressed in modern physics, including the successes and limitations of Newton's mechanics. The book is designed to mirror the progress of the students using it, with earlier chapters assuming no more than basic high school instruction and later ones geared toward subsequent enhanced understanding. The book is designed for students of undergraduate programs in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering who will deal with modern physics, as they will benefit from an approach in which the aspects of classical mechanics are introduced in a propaedeutic approach towards relativistic physics and quantum mechanics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031472893 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics
2. ATOMS
3. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GRAVITATION
6. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
7. MECHANICS
8. MOLECULES
9. NEWTONIAN PHYSICS
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| Title | Introduction to Modified Gravity |
| Author(s) | Petrov, Albert;Nascimento, Jose Roberto;Porfirio, Paulo |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | VIII, 104 p. 1 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book reviews various modified gravity models, including those with modifications in the pure gravitational sector; those involving extra fields, that is, scalar-tensor and vector-tensor gravity theories; gravity models with Lorentz symmetry breaking; and nonlocal gravity models. The authors discuss both classical and quantum aspects of these theories. The book is unique in bringing together all the current alternatives to Einstein gravity in one source and serves as an excellent starting point for graduate students and other newcomers seeking an overview. This second edition has been expanded with new results from a variety of approaches including f(R,Q,P) gravity, galileon gravity and massive gravity. Extended discussions of Lorentz-breaking terms and of non-local field theory have been added and a completely new chapter is devoted to models based on non-Riemannian geometry |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031466342 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Alternative Relativity
2. Classical and Quantum Gravity
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
6. Relativity (Physics)
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| Title | Modified and Quantum Gravity : From Theory to Experimental Searches on All Scales |
| Author(s) | Pfeifer, Christian;L??mmerzahl, Claus |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XIV, 550 p. 56 illus., 43 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book discusses theoretical predictions and their comparison with experiments of extended and modified classical and quantum theories of gravity. The goal is to provide a readable access and broad overview over different approaches to the topic to graduate and PhD students as well as to young researchers. The book presents both, theoretical and experimental insights and is structured in three parts. The first addresses the theoretical models beyond special and general relativity such as string theory, Poincare gauge theory and teleparallelism as well as Finsler gravity. In turn, the second part is focused on the observational effects that these models generate, accounting for tests and comparisons which can be made on all possible scales: from the universe as a whole via binary systems, stars, black holes, satellite experiments, down to laboratory experiments at micrometer and smaller scales. The last part of this book is dedicated to quantum systems and gravity, showing tests of classical gravity with quantum systems, and coupling of quantum matter and gravity |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031315206 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Alternative Relativity
2. ASTROPHYSICS
3. Classical and Quantum Gravity
4. COSMOLOGY
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GRAVITATION
7. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
8. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
9. Relativity (Physics)
10. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Structure and Dynamics of Compact Stars |
| Author(s) | Benhar, Omar |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XI, 169 p. 64 illus., 39 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book aims at providing an accessible, and yet comprehensive and self-contained discussion of compact stars. After a pedagogical introduction to the physics of white dwarfs, the bulk of the book is devoted to the analysis of the structure and dynamics of neutron stars. A great deal of emphasis is placed on the dynamical models underlying the description of neutron star matter at microscopic level. The analysis of these models is inherently cross-disciplinary - from nuclear and particle physics to astrophysics and condensed matter physics ??? and the relevant concepts are introduced following a didactic approach, drawing largely on the historical development of the field. The impact of the latest experimental data, such as gravitational waves emissions, and the potential of future observational developments in the new era of multimessenger astronomy are extensively discussed. This volume is intended to provide PhD students in physics and astrophysics with solid foundations for their future research career. It is also a useful tool for the broader audience of more advanced readers, working in the fields of nuclear and particle physics as well as gravitational physics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031356285 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. GRAVITATION
4. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
5. NUCLEAR PHYSICS
6. PARTICLE PHYSICS
7. PARTICLES (NUCLEAR PHYSICS)
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| I12831 |
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| Title | Facts of Matter and Light : Ten Physics Experiments that Shaped Our Understanding of Nature |
| Author(s) | Maes, Christian |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XIII, 175 p. 41 illus., 31 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The main aim of this book is to shine a spotlight on key experiments and their crucial importance for advancing our understanding of physics. Physics is an empirical science, and experiments have always been a driving force in the development of our understanding of nature. Facts matter. In that sense, the book attempts to be complementary to the many popularizations of theoretical physics, and to counterbalance the frequent emphasis there on more speculative ideas. Experimental physics is also an essential pillar in physics teaching, as well as helping broader audiences to better understand important concepts, particularly in challenging fields such as relativity or quantum physics, where our common sense intuition often fails. Readers are taken on an historical journey, starting with ???Free Fall??? and culminating in ???Spooky Action at a Distance???. En route they will encounter many important branches of physics, whose main ideas and theoretical description will be given a more empirical meaning. At the end, the reader is invited to reflect on what could be exciting and important directions for fundamental physics. All readers with an undergraduate degree in physical sciences or engineering will enjoy and learn much from this stimulating and original text |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031333347 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS
2. Classical Optics, Geometric and Wave optics
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. ELECTRODYNAMICS
5. GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
6. GRAVITATION
7. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
8. Nuclear and Particle Physics
9. NUCLEAR PHYSICS
10. OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY
11. QUANTUM PHYSICS
12. Wave theory of light
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| I12799 |
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| Title | Mathematical Aspects of Paradoxes in Cosmology : Can Mathematics Explain the Contemporary Cosmological Crisis? |
| Author(s) | K??????ek, Michal;Somer, Lawrence |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. |
| Description | XVI, 264 p. 84 illus., 70 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides a mathematical and numerical analysis of many problems which lead to paradoxes in contemporary cosmology, in particular, the existence of dark matter and dark energy. It is shown that these hypothetical quantities arise from excessive extrapolations of simple mathematical models to the whole physical universe. Written in a completely different style to most books on General Relativity and cosmology, the important results take the form of mathematical theorems with precise assumptions and statements. All theorems are followed by a corresponding proof, or an exact reference to the proof. Some nonstandard topics are also covered, including violation of the causality principle in Newtonian mechanics, a critical mathematical and numerical analysis of Mercury's perihelion shift, inapplicability of Einstein's equations to the classical two-body problem due to computational complexity, non-uniqueness of the notion of universe, the topology of the universe, variousdescriptions of a hypersphere, regular tessellations of hyperbolic spaces, local Hubble expansion of the universe, neglected gravitational redshift in the detection of gravitational waves, and the possible distribution of mass inside a black hole. The book also dispels some myths appearing in the theory of relativity and in contemporary cosmology. For example, although the hidden assumption that Einstein's equations provide a good description of the evolution of the whole universe is considered to be obvious, it is just a null hypothesis which has not been verified by any experiment, and has only been postulated by excessive extrapolations of many orders of magnitude |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031317682 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
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| Title | Physics of Gravitational Waves : Sources and Detection Methods |
| Author(s) | Kenath, Arun;Sivaram, Chandra |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | VIII, 56 p. 7 illus., 3 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides a concise introduction to the physics of gravitational waves. It is aimed at graduate-level students and PhD scholars. Ever since the discovery of gravitational waves in 2016, gravitational wave astronomy has been adding to our understanding of the universe. Gravitational waves have been detected in the past few years from several transient events such as merging stellar-mass black holes, binary neutron stars, etc. These waves have frequencies in a band ranging from a few hundred hertz to around a kilohertz to which LIGO type instruments are sensitive. LISA will be sensitive to much lower range of frequencies from SMBH mergers. Apart from these cataclysmic burst events, there are innumerable sources of radiation which are continuously emitting gravitational waves of all frequencies. These include a whole mass range of compact binary and isolated compact objects and close planetary stellar entities. This book discusses the gravitational wave backgroundproduced in typical frequency ranges from such sources emitting over a Hubble time and the fluctuations in the h values measured in the usual devices. Also discussed are the high-frequency thermal background gravitational radiation from hot stellar interiors and newly formed compact objects. The reader will also learn how gravitational waves provide a testing tool for various theories of gravity, i.e. general relativity and extended theories of gravity, and will be the definitive test for general relativity |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031304637 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COSMOLOGY
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. GENERAL RELATIVITY
4. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
5. GRAVITATION
6. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
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| Title | The First Law of Mechanics in General Relativity & Isochrone Orbits in Newtonian Gravity |
| Author(s) | Ramond, Paul |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XXVI, 393 p. 77 illus., 69 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The thesis tackles two distinct problems of great interest in gravitational mechanics ??? one relativistic and one Newtonian. The relativistic one is concerned with the "first law of binary mechanics", a remarkably simple variational relation that plays a crucial role in the modern understanding of the gravitational two-body problem, thereby contributing to the effort to detect gravitational-wave signals from binary systems of black holes and neutron stars. The work reported in the thesis provides a mathematically elegant extension of previous results to compact objects that carry spin angular momentum and quadrupolar deformations, which more accurately represent astrophysical bodies than mere point particles. The Newtonian problem is concerned with the isochrone problem of celestial mechanics, namely the determination of the set of radial potentials whose bounded orbits have a radial period independent of the angular momentum. The thesis solves this problem completely in a geometrical way and explores its consequence on a variety of levels, in particular with a complete characterisation of isochrone orbits. The thesis is exceptional in the breadth of its scope and achievements. It is clearly and eloquently written, makes excellent use of images, provides careful explanations of the concepts and calculations, and it conveys the author???s personality in a way that is rare in scientific writing, while never sacrificing academic rigor |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031179648 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. GENERAL RELATIVITY
4. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
5. GRAVITATION
6. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
7. NEWTONIAN PHYSICS
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| Title | A Novel Approach to Relativistic Dynamics : Integrating Gravity, Electromagnetism and Optics |
| Author(s) | Friedman, Yaakov;Scarr, Tzvi |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XV, 196 p. 60 illus., 54 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This self-contained monograph provides a mathematically simple and physically meaningful model which unifies gravity, electromagnetism, optics and even some quantum behavior. The simplicity of the model is achieved by working in the frame of an inertial observer and by using a physically meaningful least action principle. The authors introduce an extension of the Principle of Inertia. This gives rise to a simple, physically meaningful action function. Visualizations of the geometryare obtained by plotting the action function. These visualizations may be used to compare the geometries of different types of fields. Moreover, a new understanding of the energy-momentum of a field emerges. The relativistic dynamics derived here properly describes motion of massive and massless objects under the influence of a gravitational and/or an electromagnetic field, and under the influence of isotropic media. The reader will learn how to compute theprecession of Mercury, the deflection of light, and the Shapiro time delay. Also covered is the relativistic motion of binary stars, including the generation of gravitational waves, a derivation of Snell's Law and a relativistic description of spin. We derive a complex-valued prepotential of an electromagnetic field. The prepotential is similar to the wave function in quantum mechanics. The mathematics is accessible to students after standard courses in multivariable calculus and linear algebra. For those unfamiliar with tensors and the calculus of variations, these topics are developed rigorously in the opening chapters. The unifying model presented here should prove useful to upper undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to seasoned researchers |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031252143 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. GENERAL RELATIVITY
4. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
5. GRAVITATION
6. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
7. MECHANICS
8. OPTICS
9. Optics and Photonics
10. QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
11. Quantum Electrodynamics, Relativistic and Many-body Calculations
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| Title | Laser Power Stabilization via Radiation Pressure |
| Author(s) | Trad Nery, Marina |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XIX, 154 p. 81 illus., 79 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book offers a comprehensive and complete description of a new scheme to stabilize the power of a laser on a level needed for high precision metrology experiments. The novel aspect of the scheme is sensing power fluctuations via the radiation pressure driven motion they induce on a micro-oscillator mirror. It is shown that the proposed technique can result in higher signals for power fluctuations than what is achieved by a direct power detection, and also that it enables the generation of a strong bright squeezed beam. The book starts with the basics of power stabilization and an overview on the current state of art. Then, detailed theoretical calculations are performed, and the advantages of the new scheme are highlighted. Finally, a proof-of-principle experiment is described and its results are analyzed in details. The success of the work presented here paves a way for achieving high power stability in future experiments and is of interest for high precision metrology experiments, like gravitational wave detectors, and optomechanical experiments. Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the Gravitational Wave International Committee |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030958688 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GENERAL RELATIVITY
5. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
6. GRAVITATION
7. GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
8. LASER
9. LASERS
10. OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES
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