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Combining sports trivia and science, a physicist discusses the scientific principles involved in pitching and hitting a baseball, looks at the properties of bats, describes the flight of a baseball, and features new sections on the neurophysiology of batting, ball constancy and elasticity over time, .
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• Escape from the jungle of no imaginations
• The changeless change
• Superposition
• The zen of quantum fields
• Emergence
• If Basquiat were a physicist
• What banged?
• A dark conductor of quantum galaxies
• Cosmic virtual reality
• Embracing instabilities
• A cosmologist's view of a quantum elephant
• The cosmic biosphere
• Dark ideas on alien life
• Into the cosmic matrix
• The cosmic mind and quantum cosmology

"Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead, Isham said, Alexander should start listening to his dreams. This is only the first of a great many surprising and even shocking lessons in Fear of a Black Universe. As Alexander explains, greatness in physics requires transgression, a willingness to reject conventional expectations. He shows why progress happens when some physicists come to think outside the mainstream, and both the outsiders and insiders respond to the resulting tensions. He also shows why, as in great jazz, great physics requires a willingness to make things up as one goes along, and a willingness to rely on intuition when the path forward isn't clear. Unfortunately, most physicists are too afraid of being wrong -- and jeopardizing their careers -- to embrace this sort of improvisation. Indeed, for a long time Alexander was, too. Of course, Alexander doesn't mean that physics should be lawless. After all, even jazz musicians must respect the key and tempo of the music their fellow musicians are playing. But it does mean that not all the answers can be found, as Isham argued, as equations in a book. Drawing on Einstein's notion of principle theories -- ideas that constrain the shape that other theories take -- Alexander shows that from general relativity to quantum theory, three principles underlie everything we know about the Universe: the principle of invariance, the quantum principle, and the principle of emergence. Using these three principles as a guide, Alexander takes a stab at some of the greatest mysteries of the Universe, including what happened before the Big Bang; the quantum theory of gravity; the nature of dark energy and dark matter; and the quantum physics of consciousness. Along the way, he explains where our understanding of the universe and those principles don't jibe, as in the nature of the Big Bang, and asks what such discrepancies mean. He shows us what discoveries lie on the horizon, and crucially, calls on us not just to embrace improvisation and knowledge outside of physics but to diversify our scientific communities by reaching out to people of color. As compelling as it is necessary, Fear of a Black Universe offers us remarkable insight into the art of physics and empowers us all to theorize"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Classical Physics
• Some Contradictions
• Quantum Mechanics
• Atomic Physics
• Nuclear Physics
• Particle Physics
• Special Relativity
• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• General Relativity
• Quantum Fluids
• Quantum Fields
• Appendices: Mathematica Program for Problem 2.5
• Matrices
• Fourier Series and Fourier Integrals
• Some Thermodynamics
• Some Statistical Mechanics
• Some Vector Calculus
• Black Body Flux
• Wave Functions for Identical Particles
• Transition Rate
• Neutrino Mixing
• Units.
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Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized in the twentieth century - the era of "modern physics". The book Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, aimed at the very best students, presents the foundations and frontiers of today's physics. Typically, students have to wade through several courses to see many of these topics. The goal is to give them some idea of where they were going, and how things fit together, as they go along. The book focuses on the following topics: quantum mechanics; applications in atomic, nuclear, particle, and condensed-matter physics; special relativity; relativistic quantum mechanics, including the Dirac equation and Feynman diagrams; quantum fields; and general relativity. The aim is to cover these topics in sufficient depth that things "make sense" to students, and they achieve an elementary working knowledge of them. The book assumes a one-year, calculus-based freshman physics course, along with a one-year course in calculus. Several appendices bring the reader up to speed on any additional required mathematics. Many problems are included, a great number of which take dedicated readers just as far as they want to go in modern physics. The present book provides solutions to the over 175 problems in Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations in what we believe to be a clear and concise fashion.
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• Introduction
• Quantum Mechanics: Solutions to the Schrodinger Equation
• Formal Developments
• Applications of Quantum Mechanics: Approximation Methods for Bound States
• Scattering Theory
• Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
• Electromagnetic Radiation and Quantum Electrodynamics
• Relativistic Quantum Field Theory: Discrete Symmetries
• Heisenberg Picture
• Feynman Rules for QCD
• Problems and Appendices: The Two-Body Problem
• Charged Particle in External Electromagnetic Field--.
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Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized in the twentieth century - the era of "modern physics". Two books by the second author entitled Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations and Advanced Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, aimed at the very best students, present the foundations and frontiers of today's physics. Many problems are included in these texts. A previous book by the current authors provides solutions to the over 175 problems in the first volume.A third volume Topics in Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations has recently appeared, which covers several subjects omitted in the essentially linear progression in the previous two. This book has three parts: part 1 is on quantum mechanics, part 2 is on applications of quantum mechanics, and part 3 covers some selected topics in relativistic quantum field theory. Parts 1 and 2 follow naturally from the initial volume. The present book provides solutions to the over 135 problems in this third volume.The three volumes in this series, together with the solutions manuals, provide a clear, logical, self-contained, and comprehensive base from which students can learn modern physics. When finished, readers should have an elementary working knowledge in the principal areas of theoretical physics of the twentieth century.
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• Partial table of contents: Underpinnings. Rectilinear Kinematics. Elementary Dynamics. Motion in Two Dimensions. Momentum and Energy. Static Electricity. Current Electricity. Electromagnetism. Waves and Light. Early Modern Physics. Miscellaneous Topics. Achieving Wider Scientific Literacy. Critical Thinking. Bibliography. Index.
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This book is an invaluable resource for physics teachers. It contains an updated version of the author's A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching (1990), Homework and Test Questions (1994), and a previously unpublished monograph "Introduction to Classical Conservation Laws".
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The 10th edition of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics building upon previous issues by offering several new features and additions. Examples include a new print component will revised to conform to the Version 5 design; chapter sections organized and numbered to match the Concept Modules; Learning Objectives have been added; illustrations changed to reflect (and advertise) multimedia versions available in WileyPLUS; and new problems provide a means of assigning the multimedia assets. The new edition offers most accurate, extensive and varied set of assessment questions of any course management program in addition to all questions including some form of question assistance -- including answer specific feedback -- to facilitate success. The text also offers multimedia presentations (videos and animations) of much of the material that provide an alternative pathway through the material for those who struggle with reading scientific exposition. Furthermore, the book includes math review content in both a self-study module for more in-depth review and also in just-in-time math videos for a quick refresher on a specific topic. The Halliday content is widely accepted as clear, correct, and complete. The end-of-chapters problems are without peer. The new design, which was introduced in 9e continues with 10e, making this new edition of Halliday the most accessible and reader-friendly book on the market.
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• Classical Mechanics. Special Relativity. Electricity and Magnetism. Optics. Quantum Mechanics. Thermal Physics.
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A Review of Undergraduate Physics This book presents a clear summary of most of the material covered in an American undergraduate program in physics. It should be especially useful to: * Graduate students, or advanced undergraduates, who are preparing to take a comprehensive physics examination.* Physicists and physics students who want a concise, unified treatment of the basic ideas and methods of physics.* Engineers and physical scientists who would like to see more advanced treatments of the concepts they encountered in their undergraduate physics courses. There are six chapters: mechanics, relativity, electricity and magnetism, optics, quantum mechanics and thermal physics. In each, the important physical ideas are applied to the solution of problems at the level of first-year graduate qualifying exams. Additional problems (with brief answers) are given at the end of each chapter. New Wiley Titles Valuable Additions for your Professional Library Brandt / Dahmen: The Picture Book of Quantum Mechanics, 306pp, 1985 Callen: Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics 2nd, 493pp, 1985 Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics, 6th, 565pp, 1986 Klein / Furtak: Optics, 2nd, 720pp, 1986 Nayfeh / Brussel: Electricity and Magnetism, 619pp, 1985 Stubbins: Essential Electronics, 480pp, 1986.
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