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• Introduction
• A Guess at the Riddle
• Physical Laws and Physical Things
• The Still More Basic Question.

• Prologue
• Paris, 1903: Cracks begin to appear
• Berlin, 1900: An act of desperation
• Bern, 1905: The patent serf
• Paris, 1906: The decline and fall of Pierre Curie
• Berlin, 1909: The end of the flying cigars
• Prague, 1911: Einstein says it with flowers
• Cambridge, 1911: A Dane grows up
• The North Atlantic, 1912: The sinking of infallibility
• Munich, 1913: A painter moves to Munich
• Munich, 1914: On tour with the atom
• Berlin, 1915: Good at theory, bad at relationships
• Germany, 1916: War and peace
• Berlin, 1917: Einstein breaks down
• Berlin, 1918: Pandemic
• The Mid-Atlantic, 1919: The moon obscures the sun
• Munich, 1919: A young man reads Plato
• Berlin, 1920: Great minds meet
• Göttingen, 1922: A son finds his father
• Munich, 1923: A highflier almost crashes
• Copenhagen, 1923: Bohr and Einstein take the tram
• Copenhagen, 1924: One last try
• Paris, 1924: A prince makes atoms sing
• Heligoland, 1925: The vastness of the sea and the tininess of atoms
• Cambridge, 1925: The quiet genius
• Leiden, 1925: The prophet of spin
• Arosa, 1925: A late erotic outburst
• Copenhagen, 1926: Waves and particles
• Berlin, 1926: A visit with the demigods
• Berlin, 1926: The Plancks throw a party
• Göttingen, 1926: The abolition of reality
• Munich, 1926: A turn war
• Copenhagen, 1926: Exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky
• Copenhagen, 1926: A game with sharpened knives
• Copenhagen, 1927: The world goes fuzzy
• Como, 1927: The great debate
• Berlin, 1930: Germany flourishes; Einstein falls ill
• Brussels, 1930: KO in the second round
• Zurich, 1931: Pauli's dreams
• Copenhagen, 1932: Faust in Copenhagen
• Berlin, 1933: Some flee; some stay
• Amsterdam, 1933: A sad end
• Oxford, 1935: The cat that isn't there
• Princeton, 1935: Einstein puts the world back in focus
• Garmisch, 1936: Dirty snow
• Moscow, 1937: On the other side
• Berlin, 1938: Bursting nuclei
• The Atlantic, 1939: Terrible news
• Copenhagen, 1941: Estrangement
• Berlin, 1942: No bomb for Hitler
• Stockholm, 1943: Flight
• Princeton, 1943: Einstein mellows
• England, 1945: The impact of the explosion
• Epilogue.

"The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries-Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and more-toppled the Newtonian universe amid the turmoil of two World Wars"-- Provided by publisher.

What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This text explores the science & history of the elusive void - from Aristotle's theories to black holes & quantum particles, & why our very latest discoveries about the vacuum can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos

• Intro
• ANHA Series Preface
• En guise de préface
• Contents
• Contributors
• The Making of a Physicist
• Alex Grossmann, a Rinascimento Multidisciplinary Man
• 1 A Jubilee of Multifold Research
• 2 Quantum Physics and Related Fields
• 3 Wavelets
• 4 Genomics
• 5 How to Conclude Such a Short But Mind-Boggling Overview?
• 6 Postlude: A Geometric Existentialist Way of Thinking
• Generalized Affine Signal Analysis with Time-Delay Thresholds

• Introductory Note on the Draft Paper ``Generalized Affine Signal Analysis with Time-Delay Thresholds'', by Jan W. Dash, Alex Grossmann and Thierry Paul
• 1 Wavelets in the Mid-1980s
• 1.1 The Group-Theoretic View of Wavelets
• 1.2 Overcompleteness Can Be a Virtue
• 1.3 Comments on the First Sentence: ``A Class of Functions Recently Introduced by Dash and Paul ...''
• 1.4 Phase
• 2 Specific Comments on the Text
• 3 Le Baron de Prony's Overcomplete Set of ``Wavelets à la Neanderthal''
• 4 Alex
• 5 Addendum/Corrigendum

• Alex Grossmann's PhD Thesis (Harvard 1959): Covariant Functions of Quantum Fields
• Table of Contents and Introduction
• Part I Quantum Mechanics and Theoretical Physics
• Alex Grossmann, from Nested Hilbert Spaces to Partial Inner Product Spaces and Wavelets
• 1 Introduction: Some History
• 2 Rigged Hilbert Spaces
• 3 Nested Hilbert Spaces
• 4 Towards Partial Inner Product Spaces
• 5 Operators on PIP-Spaces
• 5.1 General Definitions
• 5.2 Homomorphisms and Orthogonal Projections
• 5.3 Symmetric Operators and Self-Adjointness
• 6 Applications in Quantum Mechanics

• 6.1 General Formulation
• 6.2 Resonances, Analyticity Properties
• 6.3 Condensed Matter Physics
• 7 The Legacy: Operator Partial Algebras
• 8 Towards 2D Wavelets
• 9 Epilogue
• References
• Combining Quantum Mechanical Languages (A Tribute to Alex Grossmann)
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The kq-Representation
• 3 Bloch-Like Functions
• 4 Phase of the Bloch Function
• 5 kq-Space
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Alex Grossmann, Scattering Amplitude, Fermi Pseudopotential, and Particle Physics
• 1 Harvard and Scattering Amplitude
• 2 Marseille and Fermi Pseudopotential
• 3 Particle Physics

• References
• Sixty Years of Hadronic Vacuum Polarization
• 1 Introduction
• 2 What Is Hadronic Vacuum Polarization-- 3 HVP and the Muon μ-Particle
• 4 Mellin-Barnes Representation of aμHVP
• 5 The Time Momentum Representation
• 6 Limitations of the LQCD Evaluations
• 7 Mellin-Barnes Approximants
• 7.1 Euler Beta-Function Approximants
• 8 Time Momentum Representation Approximants
• 8.1 Heaviside Spectral Function Approximants
• 9 Conclusion
• References
• Standard Model, and Its Standard Problems
• 1 Prologue
• 2 A Short Introduction to the Standard Model A.D. 2021

• 2.1 The Neutrino Mass Sector Sν

Over the course of a scientific career spanning more than fifty years, Alex Grossmann (1930-2019) made many important contributions to a wide range of areas including, among others, mathematics, numerical analysis, physics, genetics, and biology. His lasting influence can be seen not only in his research and numerous publications, but also through the relationships he cultivated with his collaborators and students. This edited volume features chapters written by some of these colleagues, as well as researchers whom Grossmanns work and way of thinking has impacted in a decisive way. Reflecting the diversity of his interests and their interdisciplinary nature, these chapters explore a variety of current topics in quantum mechanics, elementary particles, and theoretical physics; wavelets and mathematical analysis; and genomics and biology. A scientific biography of Grossmann, along with a more personal biography written by his son, serve as an introduction. Also included are the introduction to his PhD thesis and an unpublished paper coauthored by him. Researchers working in any of the fields listed above will find this volume to be an insightful and informative work.

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Nonlinear maps
• 3 Dynamical systems
• 4 Ordinary differential equations I, initial value problems
• 5 Ordinary differential equations II, boundary value problems
• 6 Ordinary differential equations III, memory, delay and noise
• 7 Partial differential equations I, basics
• 8 Partial differential equations II, applications
• 9 Monte Carlo methods
• A Matrices and systems of linear equations
• B Program library
• C Solutions of the problems
• D README and a short guide to FE-tools
• Index

• Introduction
• The Received View of theories
• From statements to structures
• From structures to statements
• Scheibe's hybrid structuralism
• On Scheibe's theory of reduction
• Conclusion: Views on scientific theories.

This book offers the first systematic review of the structuralism of physical theories. Particular emphasis is placed on the inclusion of empirical imprecision into formal reconstructions of theories. The proposed measure of imprecision allows for a topological comparison of theories. Considering the ongoing debates on the nature of the thermodynamic limit in statistical mechanics, as well as on limit relations between classical and quantum mechanics, the author asserts that the Bourbaki-style structuralism, together with E. Scheibe's theory of reduction, is the best choice for reconstructing and analyzing the related questions of reduction and emergence. Readers will appreciate the critical overview of the main positions in philosophy of science, examined with particular attention to their applicability to current problems of fundamental theories of physics.

"This book shows how to solve physics problems using Haskell, a functional programming language. Source code, equations, and diagrams throughout demonstrate how physics enthusiasts and functional programmers can use Haskell and its mathematical structures to solve problems from Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetics"-- Provided by publisher.

• October 1944
• April 1943
• June 1943
• October 1943
• December 1943
• January 1944
• February 1944
• March 1944
• May 1944
• June 1944
• July 1944
• August 1944
• November 1944
• January 1945
• April 1945
• May 1945
• Coda: 1945-1947
• Appendix.

"Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as 'the basis of all twentieth-century physics.' Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work laid the foundation for our modern understanding of matter and energetic processes. But Planck's story is not well known, especially in the United States. A German physicist working during the first half of the twentieth century, his library, personal journals, notebooks, and letters were all destroyed with his home in World War II. What remains, other than his contributions to science, are handwritten letters in German shorthand, and tributes from other scientists of the time, including his close friend Albert Einstein. In Planck : Driven by Vision, Broken by War, Brandon R. Brown interweaves the voices and writings of Planck, his family, and his contemporaries--with many passages appearing in English for the first time--to create a portrait of a groundbreaking physicist working in the midst of war. Planck spent much of his adult life grappling with the identity crisis of being an influential German with ideas that ran counter to his government. During the later part of his life, he survived bombings and battlefields, surgeries and blood transfusions, all the while performing his influential work amidst a violent and crumbling Nazi bureaucracy. When his son was accused of treason related to a bombing, Planck tried to use his standing as a German 'national treasure, ' and wrote direct letters to Hitler to spare his son's life. Brown tells the story of Planck's friendship with the far more outspoken Albert Einstein, and shows how his work fits within the explosion of technology and science that occurred during his life. The story of a brilliant man living in a dangerous time, Brandon Brown gives Max Planck his rightful place in the history of science, and shows how war-torn Germany deeply impacted his life and work"-- Provided by publisher

• The nature of classical physics
• Spaces, trigonometry, and vectors
• Motion
• Integral calculus
• Dynamics
• Partial differentiation
• Systems of more than one particle
• Energy
• The principle of least action
• Symmetries and conservation laws
• Hamiltonian mechanics and time-translation invariance
• The phase space fluid and the Gibbs-Liouville Theorem
• Poisson brackets, angular momentum, and symmetries
• Electric and magnetic forces
• Appendix 1: Central forces and planetary orbits

Unravel the secrets of the universe and untangle cutting-edge physics Yes, you actually can understand quantum physics! String Theory For Dummies is a beginner's guide, and we make it fun to find out about the all the recent trends and theories in physics, including the basics of string theory, with friendly explanations. Build a foundation of physics knowledge, understand the various string theories and the math behind them, and hear what the opponents to string theory have to say. It's an exciting time to be alive in advanced physics, and this updated edition covers what's new in the string world--the Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs Boson, gravitational waves, and lots of other big headlines. Unleash your inner armchair physicist with String Theory For Dummies. Brush up on the basics of physics and the approachable math needed to understand string theory Meet the scientists who discovered string theory and continue to make waves (and particles) in the physics world Understand what it's all about with real-world examples and explanations Learn why string theory is called "The Theory of Everything"--and what it means for technology and the future Aspiring scientists or life-long learners will both be able to gain valuable information from this book. This accessible intro into string theory is for the theorists inside anyone.

• Introduction
• Dismantling classical physics
• Cathode ray tube: X-rays and the electron
• The gold foil experiment: The structure of the atom
• The Photoelectric Effect: The light quantum
• Matter beyond atoms
• Cloud chambers: Cosmic rays and a shower of new particles
• The first particle accelerators: Splitting the atom
• Cyclotron: Artificial production of radioactivity
• Synchrotron radiation: An unexpected light emerges
• The standard model and beyond
• Particle physics goes large: The strange resonances
• Mega-detectors: Finding the elusive Neutrino
• Linear accelerators: The discovery of quarks
• The Tevatron: A third generation of matter
• The large Hadron collider: The Higgs Boson and beyond
• Future experiments
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

"An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of matter and made the modern world. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, many scientists believed that the project of physics was nearly complete, that there was little left to explore. But as the new century dawned, scientists with the drive to deepen their understanding began looking ever more closely at the atom, and as a result of their remarkable discoveries, physics--and the world around us--would never again be the same. When the cathode ray tube revealed the secret of X-rays, physics immediately proved itself to be a source of enormous technological innovation, enabling life-saving medical equipment, safer building construction, and stronger security measures. And with every discovery since, our expanded knowledge of the infinitesimal has also brought a corresponding change in technology. These experiments ushered us into the modern world, helping us to create detectors that map the insides of volcanoes and predict eruptions as well as photovoltaic cells that power remote controls, accelerate our Internet speeds, and harness the sun's energy. From the smallest of instruments to machines so large they straddle international borders, Suzie Sheehy takes readers on a captivating journey through twelve crucial experiments that shaped our understanding of the cosmos and how we live within it. Along the way, Sheehy pulls back the curtain to reveal how physics is really done--not by theorists with blackboards, but by experimentalists with brilliant designs. Celebrating human ingenuity, creativity, and above all curiosity, The Matter of Everything is an inspiring story about the scientists who make real discoveries, and a powerful reminder that progress is a function of our desire to know"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Idealization, abstraction, and approximation
• Taxonomies
• Justification
• Platonism
• Realism
• Understanding
• Epilogue.

Offers an opinionated introduction to philosophical issues concerning idealizations in physics, including the concept of and reasons for introducing idealization, abstraction, and approximation, possible taxonomy and justification, and application to issues of mathematical Platonism, scientific realism, and scientific understanding.-- Provided by publisher.

• Units and Constants
• Part A: Mathematical Methods
• Part B: Atoms
• Part C: Molecules
• Part D: Scattering Theory
• Part E: Scattering Experiment
• Part F: Quantum Optics
• Part G: Applications.

Comprises a comprehensive reference source that unifies the entire fields of atomic molecular and optical (AMO) physics, assembling the principal ideas, techniques and results of the field. 92 chapters written by about 120 authors present the principal ideas, techniques and results of the field, together with a guide to the primary research literature (carefully edited to ensure a uniform coverage and style, with extensive cross-references). Along with a summary of key ideas, techniques, and results, many chapters offer diagrams of apparatus, graphs, and tables of data. From atomic spectroscopy to applications in comets, one finds contributions from over 100 authors, all leaders in their respective disciplines. Substantially updated and expanded since the original 1996 edition, it now contains several entirely new chapters covering current areas of great research interest that barely existed in 1996, such as Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum information, and cosmological variations of the fundamental constants. A fully-searchable CD- ROM version of the contents accompanies the handbook.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. C*-algebras of physical quantities
• 3. Quantization and the classical limit
• 4. Intertheoretic reduction
• 5. Interpretation
• 6. Theory construction
• 7. Conclusion.
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This Element provides an entry point for philosophical engagement with quantization and the classical limit. It introduces the mathematical tools of C*-algebras as they are used to compare classical and quantum physics. It then employs those tools to investigate philosophical issues surrounding theory change in physics. It discusses examples in which quantization bears on the topics of reduction, structural continuity, analogical reasoning, and theory construction. In doing so, it demonstrates that the precise mathematical tools of algebraic quantum theory can aid philosophers of science and philosophers of physics.
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• Part I. Reference Frame Columns, Physics Today, 1988-2009: 1. What's wrong with this Lagrangean? April 1988
• 2. What's wrong with this library? August 1988
• 3. What's wrong with these prizes? January 1989
• 4. What's wrong with this pillow? April 1989
• 5. What's wrong with this prose? May 1989
• 6. What's wrong with these equations? October 1989
• 7. What's wrong with these elements of reality? June 1990
• 8. What's wrong with these reviews? August 1990
• 9. What's wrong with those epochs? November 1990
• 10. Publishing in computopia, May 1991
• 11. What's wrong with those grants, June 1991
• 12. What's wrong in computopia, April 1992
• 13. What's wrong with those talks? November 1992
• 14. Two lectures on the wave-particle duality, January 1993
• 15. A quarrel we can settle, December 1993
• 16. What's wrong with this temptation, June 1994
• 17. What's wrong with this sustaining myth, March 1996
• 18. The golemization of relativity, April 1996
• 19. Diary of a Nobel guest, March 1997
• 20. What's wrong with this reading, October 1997
• 21. How not to create tigers, August 1999
• 22. What's wrong with this elegance? March 2000
• 23. The contemplation of quantum computation, July 2000
• 24. What's wrong with these questions? February 2001
• 25. What's wrong with this quantum world? February 2004
• 26. Could Feynman have said this? May 2004
• 27. My life with Einstein, December 2005
• 28. What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring? April 2007
• 29. Some curious facts about quantum factoring, October 2007
• 30. What's bad about this habit, May 2009
• Part II. Shedding Bad Habits: 31. Fixing the shifty split, Physics Today, July 2012
• 32. What I think about Now, Physics Today, March 2014
• 33. Why QBism is not the Copenhagen interpretation, lecture, Vienna, June 2014
• Part III. More from Professor Mozart: 34. What's wrong with this book? Unpublished, 1992
• 35. What's wrong with these stanzas? Physics Today, July 2007
• Part IV. More to be said: 36. The complete diary of a Nobel guest, unpublished, 1996
• 37. Elegance in physics, unpublished lecture, Minneapolis, 1999
• 38. Questions for 2105, unpublished lecture, Zurich, 2005
• Part V. Some People I've Known: 39. My life with Fisher, lecture, Rutgers University, 2001
• 40. My life with Kohn, 2003, updated 2013
• 41. My life with Wilson, lecture, Cornell University, 2014
• 42. My life with Peierls, unpublished lecture, Santa Barbara, 1997
• Part VI. Summing It Up: 43. Writing physics, lecture, Cornell University, 1999.
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A collection of offbeat, entertaining and primarily nontechnical essays on physics and those who practice it, from eminent theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time all thirty of his columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, with updating commentary, this humorous and unusual volume includes thirteen other essays, many of them previously unpublished. Mermin's lively and penetrating writing illuminates a broad range of topics, from the implications of bad spelling in a major science journal, to the crises of science libraries and scientific periodicals, the folly of scientific prizes and honors, the agony of getting funding, and how to pronounce 'quark'. His witty observations and insightful anecdotes gleaned from a lifetime in science will entertain physicists at all levels, as well as anyone else interested in science or scientists at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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• Introduction: On Retrieving Natural Philosophy Part One: A Critical Conversation with the Tradition
• 1: The Origins of Natural Philosophy: Aristotle
• 2: The Consolidation of Natural Philosophy: The Middle Ages
• 3: Skywatching: The Natural Philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo
• 4: English Natural Philosophy: Bacon, Boyle, and Newton
• 5: The Parting of the Ways: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science Part Two: A Reconceived Natural Philosophy: Exploring a Disciplinary Imaginary
• 6: Reconceiving Natural Philosophy: Laying the Foundations
• 7: Theory: The Contemplation of Nature
• 8: Objectivity: Understanding the External World
• 9: Subjectivity: An Affective Engagement with Nature
• 10: Natural Philosophy: Recasting a Vision Acknowledgements Works Consulted Index.
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Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized. Natural philosophy was understood in the early modern period as a way of exploring the human relationship with the natural world, encompassing what would now be seen as the distinct disciplines of the natural sciences, mathematics, music, philosophy, and theology. The first part of the work represents a critical conversation with the tradition, identifying the essential characteristics of natural philosophy, particularly its emphasis on both learning about and learning from nature. After noting the factors which led to the disintegration of natural philosophy during the nineteenth century, the second part of the work sets out the reasons why natural philosophy should be retrieved, and a creative and innovative proposal for how this might be done. This draws on Karl Popper's 'Three Worlds' and Mary Midgley's notion of using multiple maps in bringing together the many aspects of the human encounter with the natural world. Such a retrieved or 're-imagined' natural philosophy is able to encourage both human attentiveness and respectfulness towards Nature, while enfolding both the desire to understand the natural world, and the need to preserve the affective, imaginative, and aesthetic aspects of the human response to nature.
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Philosophers debate the ideas and implications of one of the most important contemporary works in the philosophy of science, David Albert's Time and Chance. In the twenty-odd years since its publication, David Albert's Time and Chance has been recognized as one of the most significant contemporary contributions to the philosophy of science. Here, philosophers and physicists explore the implications of Albert's arguments and debate his solutions to some of the most intractable problems in theoretical physics. Albert has attempted to make sense of the tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of that world. In particular, he is concerned with problems arising from causality and the direction of time: defying common sense, almost all our basic scientific ideas suggest that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen in reverse. Focusing on Newtonian mechanics, Albert provides a systematic account of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past. He also generalizes the Newtonian picture to the quantum-mechanical case and suggests a deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem. The essays included in The Probability Map of the Universe develop, explore, and critique this account, while Albert himself replies. The result is an insightful discussion of the foundations of statistical mechanics and its relation to cosmology, the direction of time, and the metaphysical nature of laws and objective probability.
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"This book looks at the use of language in science and in the circulation of scienctific concepts in society at large. More precisely, the book looks at the difficulties physicists faced regarding the use of language while creating quantum mechanics, with the use of quantum concepts in literary criticism and in literature, and with the use of these concepts by the New Age and Post New Age inclined. The principles of quantum physics--and the strange phenomena they describe--originate in and are expressed most precisely with highly abstract algebraic equations. The main challenge posed by quantum phenomena does not lie, however, in its mathematics; it lies instead in how these phenomena strain the limits of comprehension. This book explores the elusive nature of the quantum domain, its problematic relationship to representation in language, and its cultural migration over time"-- Provided by publisher

Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) was a theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who contributed tremendously to particle physics. Until his death, Weinberg was regarded by many as the greatest living scientist. His most well-known work was the formulation of electroweak theory for which he earned the 1979 Nobel Prize with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam, but his research spanned many other fields. Examples include effective Lagrangians, quantum chromodynamics, supersymmetry, quantum gravity, and cosmology.Weinberg's publications were renowned not only for their profundity and originality but also for their devastating logic and clarity. This volume brings together 37 of his most significant papers, together with commentaries, providing today's physicists with easy access to these seminal papers. More than just a collection, this selection by editor Michael Duff places each article into a comprehensive overview, providing the reader with the scientific and historical context of Weinberg's finest papers.
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• 4. Deconfined Quantum Critical Point
• 5. Conclusions and Discussions
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Two Variations on the Theme of Yang and Mills
• The SM and the FSM
• 1. The Standard Model as a Variation of Yang-Mills
• 2. 't Hooft's Confinement Picture of Electroweak
• 3. Fundamentalist's Questions on the SM
• 4. The Higgs Field as Frame Vector in Flavour Space
• 5. What About Framing Colour?
• 6. Framing the Standard Model
• 7. The FSM Action
• 8. The FSM Vacuum
• 9. Particle Masses, Couplings, and Flavour-Colour Dichotomy

• 10. Consequence: 3 Fermion Generations with Characteristic Mass and Mixing Patterns
• 11. Further Consequence: Unified Approach to CP Physics
• 12. Modified Weinberg Mixing
• Probing the Hidden Sector (I)
• 13. The g-2 and other Anomalies
• Probing the Hidden Sector (II)
• 13.1. The H+ State
• 13.2. The G3 state
• 14. Remark
• 15. A Few More Words
• References
• Derivative Expansion of Effective Action in Perturbation Theory
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Semiclassical Perturbation Series
• 3. Derivative Expansion
• 3.1. Single scalar field I
• 3.2. Scalar field II

• 3.3. Mixed particles loop
• 3.4. Inclusion of internal symmetry and gauge field
• 3.5. Single fermion loop
• 3.6. Fermion and photon mixed loop
• 4. General Features
• 5. Applications
• 5.1. Quantum Electrodynamics
• 5.2. Soliton mass and Casimir energy
• 5.3. Chiral quark dynamics
• 5.4. Standard model and beyond
• 5.5. False vacuum decay
• 6. Prospective
• 7. Congratulation Note
• References
• A New Accelerator Light Source Based on Steady-State Microbunching Mechanism
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Semiconductor Industry
• 3. Moore's Law (Gordon Moore, 1965)
• 4. Light Sources

• Mathematical preliminaries
• Maxwell's equations and Occam's razor
• Electromagnetic and Q.M. Waves without postulates
• The electron and Occam's razor
• The Aharonov-Bohm effect, Proca fields, and flux quantization
• Wave-particle duality
• Battle of theories: magnetic moment and lamb shift calculations
• Spinor fields
• Electron orbitals and spacetime curvature
• The Pauli exclusion principle
• Electron dynamics in metals
• Superconductivity
• Compton-scale electron-proton composite
• Electron mediated nuclear fusion
• Nuclear forces and Occam's razor
• Transmutations by evanescent neutrinos
• Do magnetic monopoles exist?
• Simple experiments

Unified Field Theory was an expression first used by Einstein in his attempt to unify general relativity with electromagnetism. Unified Field Theory and Occam's Razor attempts to provide real answers to foundational questions related to this unification and should be of high interest to innovative scientists. A diverse group of contributing authors approach an old problem with an open-mindedness that presents a new and fresh perspective. The following topics are discussed in detail in the hope of a fruitful dialogue with all who are interested in this subject:This highly original book brings together theoretical researchers and experimentalists specialized in the areas of mathematics and epistemology, theoretical and experimental physics, engineering, and technology. For years they have worked independently on topics related to the foundations and unity of physics and have had numerous overlapping ideas in terms of using Clifford algebra and spinors. Within the book, new technology applications are outlined and theoretical results are complemented by interpretations of experimental data.
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• Preface to the Expanded Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Structure of Mechanics
• Motion in Higher Dimensions
• Newton's Laws I
• Newton's Laws II
• Law of Conservation of Energy
• Conservation of Energy in d = 2
• Kepler Problem
• Multi-particle Dynamics
• Rotational Dynamics I
• Rotational Dynamics II
• Rotational Dynamics III
• Special Relativity I: The Lorentz Transformation
• Special Relativity II: Some Consequences
• Special Relativity III: Past, Present, and Future
• Four-momentum
• Mathematical Methods
• Simple Harmonic Motion
• Waves I
• Waves II
• Fluids
• Heat
• 22. Thermodynamics I
• 23. Thermodynamics II
• Entropy and Irreversibility
• Exercises
• Answers to Exercises
• Constants and Other Data.

A beloved introductory physics textbook, now including exercises and an answer key, explains the concepts essential for thorough scientific understanding In this concise book, R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, explains the essential concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Now in an expanded edition-complete with problem sets and answers for course use or self-study-this work provides an ideal introduction for college-level students of physics, chemistry, and engineering; for AP Physics students; and for general readers interested in advances in the sciences. The book begins at the simplest level, develops the basics, and reinforces fundamentals, ensuring a solid foundation in the principles and methods of physics.
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• 1 Introduction.- 2 Kinematics and Dynamics.- 3 Momentum and Collision.- 4 Rotation.- 5 Mechanics of Deformable Bodies.- 6 Pendulums.- 7 Acoustical logging and the speed of sound.- 8 Resonators.- 9 Other acoustic phenomena.- 10 Temperature and Heat.- 11 Electricity and Magnetism.- 12 Optical phenomena.- 13 Astronomy and Modern Physics.
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This book presents more than 70 physics experiments from iPhysicsLabs-column of the Journal The Physics Teacher. The articles are aimed at physics lecturers, trainee teachers and teachers who want to take their classes to the next level using digital devices. The experiments can easily be performed and analyzed using smartphones or tablets. The topics span from mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, astrophysics and astronomy to acoustics, electrodynamics and electronics.Authors worldwide have contributed to this series of articles. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of iPhysicsLabs, Jochen Kuhn and Patrik Vogt have collected more than 70 most popular and interesting articles for this book.
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• 1: Scaling features of crackling noise
• 2: Sandpile models
• 3: Avalanches in disordered media
• 4: The depinning transition
• 5: Fracture
• 6: Plasticity
• 7: Granular matter
• 8: The Barkhausen effect
• 9: Vortices in superconductors
• 10: Flow in porous media
• 11: Avalanches in biological systems
• 12: Outlook References Index.
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The response of materials and the functioning of devices is often associated with noise. In this book, Stefano Zapperi concentrates on a particular type of noise, known as crackling noise, which is characterized by an intermittent series of broadly distributed pulses. While representing a nuisance in many practical applications, crackling noise can also tell us something useful about the microscopic processes ruling the materials behavior. Each crackle in the noise series usually corresponds to a localized impulsive event, an avalanche, occurring inside the material. A distinct statistical feature of crackling noise, and of the underlying avalanche behavior, is the presence of scaling, observed as power-law distributed noise pulses, long-range correlation, and scale free spectra. These are the hallmarks of critical phenomena and phase transitions. This work summarizes the current understanding of crackling noise, reviewing research undertaken in the past 30 years, from the early and influential ideas on self-organized criticality in sandpile models, to more modern studies on disordered systems. Crackling Noise covers the main theoretical models used to investigate avalanche phenomena, describes the statistical tools needed to analyze crackling noise, and provides a detailed discussion of a set of relevant examples of crackling noise in materials science. These include acoustic emission in fracture, strain bursts in amorphous and crystal plasticity, granular avalanches, magnetic noise in ferromagnets and superconductors, and fluid flow in porous media. The book concludes by considering the wider application of these models in the natural sciences.
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• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Flow of Time
• 3 Global Connections
• 4 The Nature of Forces
• 5 The Formation of Structure
• 6 The Energy of Space
• 7 Critical Behavior
• 8 Self-Organized Criticality
• 9 Fractal Dimensions
• 10 Bifurcation and Chaos
• 11 Brownian Motion
• 12 Turbulence and Convection
• 13 Intermittency
• 14 Words and Numbers
• 15 Quantum Complexity
• 16 Conclusion

The main task of the initial period of studying physics is inculcating the interest and enthusiasm of children in this subject. The root cause of all interest is surprise, and for children there is almost nothing more surprising than a new and unusual toy. There is a whole class of toys with unusual mechanisms, behaviour, or way of interacting with them. Having explained to the child the not quite ordinary, and often paradoxical, properties of such toys, we can gradually instil in him an interest in physics as one of the most important sciences about the nature of the surrounding world. The main purpose of the book is to arouse interest in the study of physics with the help of toys that everyone has loved since childhood.The book contains descriptions of the toys in which, with the help of explanations of the devices and principles of operation, the basic physical laws are revealed, together with perspectives of phenomena and patterns, practical significance, as well as historical information. The individual descriptions contain the minimum necessary mathematical calculations as well as information of environmental, statistical, and household orientations. All toys are systematized according to 4 chapters: Mechanics, Liquids and Gases, Electricity, and Optics.To a large extent, self-production of simple scientific toys can increase interest and enthusiasm in the process of teaching physics. To this end, the fifth chapter provides step-by-step instructions for making 14 such homemade toys from the most affordable materials using the simplest tools. The participation of teachers or parents in the process of making these toys by young children will undoubtedly provide positive emotions and establish trusting relationships.
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Today's physics has led to incredible advances in the technology we use in daily life - from cell phones and GPS systems to PET scans and more. Current theories in physics have been amazingly effective in practical terms. Yet all is far from well: the two foundational concepts in physics - Quantum Theory and General Relativity - are incompatible with each other, and observations of the universe show that our theories are incomplete - at best.While physicists have tried to paper over this impasse by inventing dark matter and dark energy, they remain unobserved mysteries. Adding fuel to the fire of current crises, artificial intelligence threatens to replace our most cherished theories and procedures with arcane algorithms. Worse yet perhaps, the public understands physics poorly, either taking it for granted or fearing and rejecting it completely.Physicists dream of a new universal theory that will completely change how we see our world, much as Einstein did with relativity and Newton with gravity. Likewise, society loves the romantic notion of a single genius heroically creating a massive paradigm shift. Still, is this scenario likely today? Perhaps the next steps in physics will be incremental rather than gigantic.In Physics in Crisis, Bruno Mansoulie uses simple language, insightful examples, and his personal experience as a working physicist to address these fundamental questions and reflect on how today's crises in physics might be solved.
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• 1. Human
• 2. Machines
• 3. Sport
• 4. Nature
• 5. Energy
• 6. Miscellaneous
• References.
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Problem-solving is the cornerstone of all walks of scientific research. Fascinating Problems for Young Physicists attempts to clear the boundaries of seemingly abstract physical laws and their tangible effects through a step-by-step approach to physics in the world around us. It consists of 42 problems with detailed solutions, each describing a specific, interesting physical phenomenon. Each problem is further divided into questions designed to guide the reader through, encouraging engagement with and learning the physics behind the phenomenon. By solving the problems, the reader will be able to discover, for example, what the relation is between the mass of an animal and its expected lifetime, or what the efficiency limit is of wind turbines. Intended for first-year undergraduate students and interested high school students, this book develops inquiry-based scientific practice and enables students to acquire the necessary skills for applying the laws of physics to realistic situations.
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• Three hours of reading instead of five years of stress.- How to avoid mistakes in the beginning.- How to not waste your time.- How to make your studies easier.- How to concentrate hard.- How to understand the math lectures faster and better.- How to crack problems and get better.- How to cheat properly.- How to recognize connections and keep them in your head.- How to prepare effectively for exams.- Sustainable competence instead of short-term competition.- Useful resources.
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The present essential contains a number of tips for the successful completion of physics studies. What makes it special is the inspiring style of the author, who studied physics himself and knows what he is talking about. Whether it's keeping lecture notes, working on exercise problems or effectively preparing for exams - this book motivates physics students even in difficult phases of their studies and encourages potential first-year students to dare to study natural sciences. This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Wie man effektiv und nachhaltig Physik studiert by Dimitrij Tschodu, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Symbols Light Matter Interaction of Light with Matter Conclusions Bibliography Author's Biography.
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This book, Introduction to Optics I: Interaction of Light with Matter, is the first book in a series of four covering the introduction to optics and optical components. The author's targeted goal for this series is to provide clarity for the reader by addressing common difficulties encountered while trying to understand various optics concepts. This first book is organized and written in a way that is easy to follow, and is meant to be an excellent first book on optics, eventually leading the way for further study. Those with technical backgrounds as well as undergraduate students studying optics for the first time can benefit from this book series. The current book includes three chapters on light and its characteristics (Chapter 1), on matter from the standpoint of optics (Chapter 2), and on the interaction of light with matter (Chapter 3). Among the characteristics of light, the ones characterizing its speed, color, and strength are covered. The polarization of light will be covered in the next book of the series, where we discuss optical components. Chapter 2 discusses various atomic and molecular transitions activated by light (optical transitions). Different kinds of natural bulk material media are described: crystalline and amorphous, atomic and molecular, conductive and insulating. Chapter 3 on the interaction of light with matter describes naturally occurring phenomena such as absorption, dispersion, and nonlinear optical interactions. The discussion is provided for the natural bulk optical materials only. The interfaces between various materials will be covered in the next book on optical components. The following three books of the series are planned as follows. In the second book, we will focus on passive optical components such as lenses, mirrors, guided-wave, and polarization optical devices. In the third book, we will discuss laser sources and optical amplifiers. Finally, the fourth book in the series will cover optoelectronic devices, such as semiconductor light sources and detectors.
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• The human engine
• Moving around efficiently
• Hear, hear
• Drag'n roll
• Old ears
• Fresh air
• Diffraction-limited photography
• Time and money
• Blue skies, blue seas
• Cycling in the wind
• Seeing under water
• Cycling in the wind
• Seeing under water
• Cycling really fast
• Water from heaven
• Surviving the sauna
• Black vs. white
• Hearing the curtains
• Fun with the setting sun
• NOT seeing the light
• Thirsty passengers
• The sauna
• revisited
• Refueling
• Counting flames
• Drink or drive
• Feeling hot, feeling cold
• The way we walk
• Wine temperature
• Over the rainbow
• New light
• Windmill nuisance
• Fog and raindrops
• Why planes fly
• Heating problems
• Bubbles and balloons
• Funny microwaves
• Brave ducks
• Muddy cyclist
• Flyng (s)low
• Funny ice
• Amazing candle flames
• Capricious suntime.

P.J.E. Peebles teaches the often counterintuitive physics of quantum mechanics by working through detailed applications of general ideas. A principal example used in the book is the hyperfine structure of atomic hydrogen (the 21 cm line): the computation of the energy splitting and the induced and spontaneous transition rates. Peebles makes room for such calculations by omitting unneeded elements that can be readily found in the standard treatises after one fully understands the principles of quantum mechanics. To give a flavor of the discovery of the remarkable world picture of quantum mechanics, the author presents a set of examples of physics that are well worth knowing even aside from their historical interest. Then the general principles of quantum mechanics are stated first in terms of wave mechanics and then in the standard abstract linear space formalism. Measurement theory, an essential part of quantum mechanics, is discussed in some detail. The book also emphasizes the art of numerical estimates. And, lastly, a large number of problems are presented, some easy, some challenging, but all selected because they are physically interesting. The book is designed for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students in physics.
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The classic textbook on quantum mechanics from Nobel Prize-winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles This book explains the often counterintuitive physics of quantum mechanics, unlocking this key area of physics for students by enabling them to work through detailed applications of general concepts and ideas. P. J. E. Peebles states general principles first in terms of wave mechanics and then in the standard abstract linear space formalism. He offers a detailed discussion of measurement theory-an essential feature of quantum mechanics-and emphasizes the art of numerical estimates. Along the way, Peebles provides a wealth of physical examples together with numerous problems, some easy, some challenging, but all of them selected because they are physically interesting. Quantum Mechanics is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in physics.
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• Section 1: Machines, 1. Dynamics of Braking Vehicles: from Coulomb Friction to Anti-lock Braking Systems, 2. Simple Thermodynamics of Jet Engines, 3. Surprises of the Transformer as a Coupled Oscillator System, 4. Maximum Thermodynamic Power Coefficient of a Wind Turbine,
• Section 2: Meditations, 5. Mutual Inductance between Piecewise Linear Loops, 6. The Hertz Contact in Chain Elastic Collisions, 7. Tilted Boxes on Inclined Planes, 8. Magnetic Forces Acting on Rigid Current-Carrying Wires Placed in a Uniform Magnetic Field, 9. Comparing a Current-carrying Circular Wire with Polygons of Equal Perimeter: Magnetic Field versus Magnetic Flux, 10. The Elastic Bounces of a Sphere between Two Parallel Walls, 11. How Short and Light Can a Simple Pendulum Be for Classroom Use?, 12. Experiments with a Falling Rod, 13. Oscillations of a Rectangular Plate, 14. Bullet Block Experiment: Angular Momentum Conservation and Kinetic Energy Dissipation, 15. The Continuity Equation in Ampere's Law,
• Section 3: Misconceptions, 16. On the Relation between Angular Momentum and Angular Velocity, 17. A Very Abnormal Normal Force, 18. Rolling Cylinder on an Inclined Plane.
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describes more than thirty Physics practicals at high school and undergraduate level. There's background information on each one, a description of the equipment needed, and how the experiment is performed. Uniquely, for those without access to a real laboratory, the book gives you access to highly detailed 3d simulations of all the experiments.
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• 1. The Beginning: Physics and Astrophysics in the ancient times till the end of 19th Century. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Developments of physics and astrophysics in ancient times till the time of Galileo: Introduction, Motion of bodies and miscellaneous ancient thoughts, The Static Earth concept, Geocentric to heliocentric, Flat Earth or round Earth, Nature of space and time, Size of the Earth. 1
• .3. Galileo and the Beginning of Experimental Physics. 1.4 Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravitation: Introduction, Newton's Laws of Motion, A comment by the author, Newton's universal law of gravitation, Weightlessness experienced by astronomers in space flights, Fallout of Newtonian gravitational law and the laws of motion, Bentley paradox, Gravitation: Is it a force or due to space-time curvature? 1.5 Faraday and Maxwell's Electromagnetism: Introduction, Michel Faraday's Contribution, J. C. Maxwell's Contribution, Fallout of Maxwell and Faraday's electromagnetism. 1.6 A New and Effulgent Dawn in making for 20th Century: Introduction, The aether (ether) prejudice till 1990s, Michelson-Morley experiment-Concept of space contraction, Birth of Einstein's special theory of relativity.
• 2. The Golden Period: Two Master Strokes of 20th Century-Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Relativistic Mechanics: Introduction, The new Archimedes is born, Most beautiful of theories, Gravitation as per general theory of relativity, Experimental proof in support of general theory of relativity, Newtonian mechanics or Einstein's relativity, Comment by a literature laureate. 2.3 Quantum Mechanics: Introduction, Formative stage of quantum concept, Max Planck's contribution, Einstein's contribution, Journey towards the understanding of micro-world-The quantum mechanics. 2.4 Albert Einstein's Relativity-A New Cosmic Vision: Introduction, Einstein's religious thought, Albert the rebel, Albert the genius, Similarities of the life of a genius and great scientists, Relativity theory by Einstein.2.5 Special theory of relativity: Introduction, Time Dilation and Space Contraction, Time dilation of special relativity, Space contraction of special relativity, Twin Paradox-A thought experiment to demonstrate time dilation and space contraction, Simultaneity Re-visited in Relativity, Extended present in space-time geometry, Mass-energy relationship, Experimental proof and application of mass-energy relation, Space-time Continuum, The space-time diagram for light cone of special relativity. 2.6 General Theory of Relativity: Introduction, Chronogeometric theory of gravitation, Recipes for the development of general theory of relativity, Prediction of gravitational waves, Expanding universe from general theory of relativity, Cosmological constant- Not a 'blunder' but a visionary's true 'vision', Twin paradox due to gravitational dilation of time and correction of GPS clocks, General theory of relativity and gravitational lensing, General relativity and wormhole/time machine. 2.7 The Game Changer of Atomic Physics-Quantum Mechanics: Introduction, Rutherford's atomic model and its limitations, Bohr's atomic model-A quantum cum classical approach, Fallout of Bohr's atomic model and its shortcomings, Wave-particle duality of de Broglie in the quantum world, Experimental verification of wave-particle duality, Double-slit experiment with Electron to establish its dual nature, Uncertainty principle-An inescapable property of the material world, Application of uncertainty principle in LIGO design, Atomic stability on the basis of quantum mechanics. 2.8 Quantum Mechanics in the hands of Schroedinger, Dirac and Others: Introduction, Schroedinger's wave mechanics, Paul Dirac's contribution in quantum mechanics, Quantum mechanics and periodic table of elements, Richard Feynman and Feynman diagram. 2.9 Quantum weirdness and Quantum entanglement: Quantum mechanics-A weird subject, Einstein's thought about quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement, Any similarity of macro-world physics with that of the micro-world?
• 3. Miscellaneous Developments: In the Realm of and Beyond R & QM. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Miscellaneous Developments in the Realm of Relativity: (i) Expanding universe: Introduction, Work of Lemaitre and Friedman on expanding universe, Experimental support in favour of expanding universe (ii) Big bang theory of the origin of universe: Introduction, Experimental evidences supporting the big bang theory, (iii) Black hole: Introduction, What are black holes, Black hole identification and experimental evidence of its existence, What is inside a black hole, First experimental imaging of black hole with EHT, Black hole vs White hole (iv) Gravitational waves: Introduction, Gravitational wave detection with LIGO, A recent outcome from LIGO results, A comment on the fruits of collaborative research. 3.3 Unification Efforts Beyond the Fundamental Developments of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Einstein's unified field theory, Quantum field theory, Quantum gravity-Theory of loop quantum gravity, Evolution of the connotation of the term-time, A digression: Big Bang vs Big Bounce as the theory of the origin of universe. 3.4 New thought beyond R-QM Universe-The string theory or the Theory of Everything: Introduction, Concept of string theory, History of development of string theory, How to verify string theory experimentally, Few more words about string theory, A comment by the author. 3.5 A Digression: The Scientific Model of the Evolution of the Universe and Four Fundamental Forces of Nature: Scientific Model of the Evolution of the Universe, How the Universe and our Earth might end-up and the means to save it, Four Fundamental Forces of Nature. 3.6 Antimatter, Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Introduction, Antimatter, Dark energy and Dark matter. 3.7 A Look at the Present Scenario of Science and Technology Beyond the R-QM Developments.
• 4. Zooming-Into the Sub-Atomic World of Atomic Physics. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Classification of Sub-atomic Particles: Introduction, Photons, Leptons, Hadrons and Quarks. 4.3 Standard Model of Physics. 4.4 Physics Beyond Standard Model-Possibility of New Particle, New Force. 4.5 Particle Accelerators/ Atom Smashers: Introduction, History of development and principle of operation of particle accelerators, The Future Circular Collider (FCC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
• 5. Zooming-Out to the Cosmic World of Astrophysics. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 The Sky: Introduction, Why the Day Sky in the Earth is Blue, Why the Night Sky is Black/Dark-Olbers' paradox. 5.3 The Sun and the Solar System: The birth of Sun and its ultimate fate, The Solar System, The Moon and the Satellites of other Planets, Exoplanets, Atmosphere of Different Planets in Our Solar System, A Comment on Global Warming. 5.4 Stars and the Stellar Evolution: Introduction, Life cycle of stars-The stellar evolution, Chandrasekhar Limit, Supernovae and Novae, Classification of Stars, Measurement of Distance to Stars and Galaxies. 5.5 Nebulae and Galaxies. 5.6 Pulsars and Quasars: Radio Astronomy, Pulsars, A comment from the Author, Quasars. 5.7 The Observable Universe and Multiverse.
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Physics and Astrophysics-Glimpses of the Progress provides a comprehensive account of physics and astrophysics from the time of Aristotle to the modern era of Stephen Hawking and beyond. It takes the readers of all ages through a pleasant journey touching on the major discoveries and inventions that have taken place in both the macro-world, including that in the cosmos, and the micro-world of atomic and subatomic particles related to physics and astrophysics. Use of historical perspective and anecdote makes the storytelling on the progress of physics and astrophysics both interesting and absorbing. While peering through different developments in these fields, the book never compromises with the sanctity of the scientific content, including the depth and beauty of the physical concept of the topics concerned and the philosophical viewpoints they represent. Where appropriate, the book also delves into value judgments of life that affect our civilization. Features The intricate concepts of physics and astrophysics are explained in simple terms and in easy-to-understand language. Physics and astrophysics are discussed in a connected and correlated way in a single volume of comprehensive size but in totality, which to date is the unique feature of this book. Starting with Aristotle's Physics and going through the work of Newton, Einstein, Schroedinger, Hubble, Hewish, Hawking, and others, including the present research on dark energy, dark matter, and the fifth force of nature, the reader will be kept absorbed and spellbound. In addition to the fundamental principles of Newtonian mechanics, Einstein's relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, loop quantum gravity, and so on, the cutting-edge technologies of recent times, such as the Large Hadron Collider, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, and Event Horizon Telescope, are also explored. The book is aimed primarily at undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals studying physics and astrophysics. General readers will also find the book useful to quench their thirst for knowledge about the developments in physics and astrophysics.
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• Volume 1. Statistical physics
• Volume 2. Optics
• Volume 3. Elasticity & fluid dynamics
• Volume 4. Plasma physics
• Volume 5. Relativity & cosmology

"Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford's monumental Modern Classical Physics is now available in five stand-alone volumes that make ideal textbooks for individual graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on statistical physics; optics; elasticity and fluid dynamics; plasma physics; and relativity and cosmology. Each volume teaches the fundamental concepts, emphasizes modern, real-world applications, and gives students a physical and intuitive understanding of the subject. Relativity and Cosmology is an essential introduction to the subject, including remarkable recent advances. Written by award-winning physicists who have made fundamental contributions to the field and taught it for decades, the book differs from most others on the subject in important ways. It highlights recent transformations in our understanding of black holes, gravitational waves, and the cosmos; it emphasizes the physical interpretation of general relativity in terms of measurements made by observers; it explains the physics of the Riemann tensor in terms of tidal forces, differential frame dragging, and associated field lines; it presents an astrophysically oriented description of spinning black holes; it gives a detailed analysis of an incoming gravitational wave's interaction with a detector such as LIGO; and it provides a comprehensive, in-depth account of the universe's evolution, from its earliest moments to the present. While the book is designed to be used for a one-quarter or full-semester course, it goes deep enough to provide a foundation for understanding and participating in some areas of cutting-edge research. Includes many exercise problems Features color figures, suggestions for further reading, extensive cross-references, and a detailed index Optional "Track 2" sections make this an ideal book for a one-quarter or one-semester course An online illustration package is available to professors The five volumes, which are available individually as paperbacks and ebooks, are Statistical Physics; Optics; Elasticity and Fluid Dynamics; Plasma Physics; and Relativity and Cosmology." --Amazon.com

• Introduction
• 1. Atom and Atomism
• 2. Electromagnetism and Field: Reality at Light Speed
• 3. Classical to Post-classical Reality: A Critique of Mechanistic and Idealistic Views by Einstein
• 4. Attitude of British and German Scientists
• 5. Changes Brought About by Maxwell in Worldview
• 6. Lenin on Revolution in Natural Sciences and Concept of Matter
• 7. Implications of EM and Quantum for Worldview
• 8. Kantian Agnosticism and Transition to Electromagnetism
• 9. Einstein and Dialectics of Evolution of Field
• 10. Characteristics of Mechanical (Mechanistic) Philosophy and Problems of Quantity-Quality Conversions
• 11. Discussion and Conclusions.
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Evolution of the concepts of atom and atomism, and the impact of electromagnetism on our worldview, is the object of our study in this book. Electromagnetism is the key link in the transition from classical to post-classical worldview. This transition is caused by the one from our thought based upon the tangibles to that based upon the intangibles. Electromagnetism inaugrated an era of light speeds and near it, and of the world constituted by such speeds. Philosophy and the worldview need to catch up and undergo a basic change. Atom as a concept and reality is under severe stress as explanation of reality. Reality has come out of atomic limits and unveiled a new world, which is constituted of quantum, relativity, wave/particle duality, etc. It is a challenge to philosophy, which re-fashioning to interpret the post-classical world based on rapid motions. We need to develop new concepts and bring about a realignment in various thought constituents. Rather thatn 'overthrow' matter, we are delving deeper into it. Philosophy and human thought itself stands on the brink of redefinition. In the present book the author shows how electromagnetism connects classical with post-classical thought, creating new structures, and impacting materialism and dialectics. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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