Theoretical Concepts In Physics

Author : Malcolm S. Longair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521275538
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Concepts in Physics written by Malcolm S. Longair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly individual, and truly novel, approach to theoretical reasoning in physics, the author has provided a course that illuminates the subject from the standpoint of real physics as practised by research scientists. Professor Longair gives the basic insights, attitudes, and techniques that are the tools of the professional physicist, in a manner that conveys the intellectual excitement and beauty of the subject. The book is intended to be a supplement to more traditional courses for physics undergraduates, and the author assumes that his readers already have some knowledge of the main branches of physics. As the story unfolds, much of the core material of an undergraduate course in physics is reviewed from a more mature point of view. This is not, in fact, a substitute for existing texts. Rather it goes beyond them by improving the student's appreciation of the subject.

Author : Malcolm Longair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017092
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Concepts in Physics written by Malcolm Longair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative account of the origins of quantum mechanics told from a historical perspective, for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers.

Author : S. D'Agostino
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401090343
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics written by S. D'Agostino and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a perspective on the history of theoretical physics over the past two hundreds years. It comprises essays on the history of pre-Maxwellian electrodynamics, of Maxwell's and Hertz's field theories, and of the present century's relativity and quantum physics. A common thread across the essays is the search for and the exploration of themes that influenced significant con ceptual changes in the great movement of ideas and experiments which heralded the emergence of theoretical physics (hereafter: TP). The fun. damental change involved the recognition of the scien tific validity of theoretical physics. In the second half of the nine teenth century, it was not easy for many physicists to understand the nature and scope of theoretical physics and of its adept, the theoreti cal physicist. A physicist like Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the eminent contributors to the new discipline, confessed in 1895 that, "even the formulation of this concept [of a theoretical physicist] is not entirely without difficulty". 1 Although science had always been divided into theory and experiment, it was only in physics that theoretical work developed into a major research and teaching specialty in its own right. 2 It is true that theoretical physics was mainly a creation of tum of-the century German physics, where it received full institutional recognition, but it is also undeniable that outstanding physicists in other European countries, namely, Ampere, Fourier, and Maxwell, also had an important part in its creation.

Author : Malcolm S. Longair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528788
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Concepts in Physics written by Malcolm S. Longair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original, and truly novel, approach to theoretical reasoning in physics. This book illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. It is intended to be a supplement to the final years of an undergraduate course in physics and assumes that the reader has some grasp of university physics. By means of a series of seven case studies, the author conveys the excitement of research and discovery, highlighting the intellectual struggles to attain understanding of some of the most difficult concepts in physics. Case studies include the origins of Newton's law of gravitation, Maxwell's equations, mechanics and dynamics, linear and non-linear, thermodynamics and statistical physics, the origins of the concepts of quanta, special relativity, general relativity and cosmology. The approach is the same as that in the highly acclaimed first edition, but the text has been completely revised and many new topics introduced.

Author : Leonard Susskind
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465038921
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theoretical Minimum written by Leonard Susskind and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master teacher presents the ultimate introduction to classical mechanics for people who are serious about learning physics "Beautifully clear explanations of famously 'difficult' things," -- Wall Street Journal If you ever regretted not taking physics in college -- or simply want to know how to think like a physicist -- this is the book for you. In this bestselling introduction to classical mechanics, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur. Challenging, lucid, and concise, The Theoretical Minimum provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.

Author : Uwe Krey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540368051
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Theoretical Physics written by Uwe Krey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise treatment embraces, in four parts, all the main aspects of theoretical physics. Recent topics such as holography and quantum cryptography are included. The book summarizes what a graduate student, physicist working in industry, or a physics teacher should master during his or her degree course. It will also be useful for deepening one’s insight and it adds new dimensions to understanding of these elemental concepts.

Author : Ralph Blumenhagen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642294979
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Concepts of String Theory written by Ralph Blumenhagen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in string theory at an intermediate level. As such it is not a compendium of results but intended as textbook in the sense that most of the material is organized in a pedagogical and self-contained fashion. Beyond the basics, a number of more advanced topics are introduced, such as conformal field theory, superstrings and string dualities - the text does not cover applications to black hole physics and cosmology, nor strings theory at finite temperatures. End-of-chapter references have been added to guide the reader wishing to pursue further studies or to start research in well-defined topics covered by this book.

Author : Malcolm S. Longair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 569 pages
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Author : P. John Shepherd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118516923
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Course in Theoretical Physics written by P. John Shepherd and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive account of five extended modules covering the key branches of twentieth-century theoretical physics, taught by the author over a period of three decades to students on bachelor and master university degree courses in both physics and theoretical physics. The modules cover nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, thermal and statistical physics, many-body theory, classical field theory (including special relativity and electromagnetism), and, finally, relativistic quantum mechanics and gauge theories of quark and lepton interactions, all presented in a single, self-contained volume. In a number of universities, much of the material covered (for example, on Einstein’s general theory of relativity, on the BCS theory of superconductivity, and on the Standard Model, including the theory underlying the prediction of the Higgs boson) is taught in postgraduate courses to beginning PhD students. A distinctive feature of the book is that full, step-by-step mathematical proofs of all essential results are given, enabling a student who has completed a high-school mathematics course and the first year of a university physics degree course to understand and appreciate the derivations of very many of the most important results of twentieth-century theoretical physics.

Author : Albrecht Lindner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030043606
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Complete Course on Theoretical Physics written by Albrecht Lindner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kompakt und verständlich führt dieses Lehrbuch in die Grundlagen der theoretischen Physik ein. Dabei werden die üblichen Themen der Grundvorlesungen Mechanik, Elektrodynamik, Relativitätstheorie, Quantenmechanik , Thermodynamik und Statistik in einem Band zusammengefasst, um den Zusammenhang zwischen den einzelnen Teilgebieten besonders zu betonen. Ein Kapitel mit mathematischen Grundlagen der Physik erleichtert den Einstieg. Zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben dienen der Vertiefung des Stoffes.