General Physics 66

Lässt sich das Verhalten aller Dinge, von den kleinsten Teilchen bis zum Universum, einheitlich beschreiben? Der heißeste Kandidat für die Entwicklung einer Weltformel, die alle physikalischen Phäno……続きを見る

Mit Max Plancks Entdeckung des nach ihm benannten Wirkungsquantums im Dezember1900 beginnt das Zeitalter der modernen Physik. Es ist durch die Entwicklung neuer Theorien gekennzeichnet, die über die……続きを見る

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This book examines technical aspects of industrial espionage and its impact in modern companies, organizations, and individuals while emphasizing the importance of intellectual property in the infor……続きを見る

Time is a concept we all use every day to measure the passage of our days and lives without giving it much thought. Physics inherently does not limit time to going forward only, or to only one dimen……続きを見る

In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase 'More is Different', Anderson has be……続きを見る

The purpose of this book is to cover all aspects of Bi-2223 superconducting wires from fundamental research, fabrication process to applications. This book contains many chapters written by distingu……続きを見る

Written by one of the astronomers who 'lived the dream' of working there this book is a restrospectively expanded diary featuring the 'birth and long life' of what was a truely innovative telescope.……続きを見る

Providing guidance that helps students practice and troubleshoot their exam technique, these books send them into their exam with the confidence to aim for the best grades. - Enables students to avo……続きを見る

This is the fifth volume in the series on the subject of quark-gluon plasma, a unique phase created in heavy-ion collisions at high energy. It contains review articles by the world experts on variou……続きを見る

This book presents mathematical methods and tools which are useful for physicists and engineers: response functions, Kramers-Kronig relations, Green's functions, saddle point approximation. The deri……続きを見る

The prize-winning essays in this book address the fascinating but sometimes uncomfortable relationship between physics and mathematics. Is mathematics merely another natural science? Or is it the re……続きを見る

Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous ……続きを見る

Wenn man so will, lässt sich so ziemlich alles, was wir um uns herum sehen, auf physikalische Phänomene zurückführen. Wilhelm Kulisch erklärt Ihnen von der Warte eines Physikers die Dinge, die Ihnen……続きを見る

Desde hace más de tres cuartos de siglo, sabemos que la naturaleza está regida por las leyes que determina una teoría física en muchos aspectos paradójica y contraintuitiva: la física cuántica. Sin ……続きを見る

En 1916, Einstein hizo una predicción extraordinaria: al igual que existen ondas electromagnéticas (como las de radio o la propia luz), también existen ondas gravitatorias, generadas por movimientos……続きを見る

The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators……続きを見る

As accelerator science and technology progressed over the past several decades, the accelerators themselves have undergone major improvements in multiple performance factors: beam energy, beam power……続きを見る

Lyapunov exponents lie at the heart of chaos theory, and are widely used in studies of complex dynamics. Utilising a pragmatic, physical approach, this self-contained book provides a comprehensive d……続きを見る

When Einstein had shared his new discoveries on 1905, no one had ever understood him. No one knew him. Although on his time, science journals were not clinging to religious practices like in our gen……続きを見る

'Professor Hao Bailin is one of China's most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists. He has made important contributions to a wide variety of research fields, including biology in which ……続きを見る

This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and……続きを見る

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO's account was vulnerable to contes……続きを見る

This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. T……続きを見る

We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon remain mute; and slowly, patiently, one sentence at a time, we write our own version of the book of nature. It is ca……続きを見る

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and acce……続きを見る

Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such g……続きを見る

The late Abraham Pais wrote the definitive biography of Albert Einstein, "Subtle is the Lord," which won an American Book Award. As a distinguished physicist and Einstein's colleague, Pais combined ……続きを見る

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist. In the second polemic part of Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours), for example……続きを見る

Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed quantum mechanics to be consiste……続きを見る