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Lectures on Special Relativity

  • 1st Edition
  • August 22, 1986
  • M. G. Bowler
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 8 6 5 1 - 8
The aim of the book is to provide a clear, concise and self-contained discussion of both the structure of the theory of special relativity and its physical content. The point of view is that of a practising physicist who uses relativity daily: relativity is a branch of physics and is regarded as being neither mathematics nor philosophy. Particular care has been taken to elucidate those difficulties, conceptual rather than mathematical, which invariably snare the unwary or inexperienced. The material is liberally illustrated with real examples and problems drawn from both high energy physics and from astrophysics.

Group Theory in Physics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 2
  • January 28, 1986
  • John F. Cornwell
  • N. H. March
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 1 8 9 8 0 4 - 5
Now available in a convenient paperback edition! Volume 1 treats in detail the fundamental concepts of the theory of groups and their role in physics, plus their application to molecular and solid state physics. In Volume 2 the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras is presented and applied to atomic and high-energy physics, concluding with an account of the recently developed gauge theories of fundamental interactions.The extensive appendices contain background material and comprehensive tabulations of ther properties of crystallographic point groups and semi-simple Lie groups and Lie algebras.

Group Theory in Physics

  • 1st Edition
  • January 28, 1986
  • John F. Cornwell
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 1 8 9 8 0 3 - 8
Techniques of physics find wide application in biology, medicine, engineering and technology generally. This series is devoted to techniques which have found and are finding application. The aim is to clarify the principles of each technique, to emphasize and illustrate the applications and to draw attention to new fields of possible employment.

Kinetics of Aggregation and Gelation

  • 1st Edition
  • October 1, 1984
  • F. Family + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 9 6 5 8 - 1
Kinetics of Aggregation and Gelation presents the proceedings of the International Topical Conference on Kinetics of Aggregation and Gelation held on April 2-4, 1984 in Athens, Georgia. The purpose of the conference was to bring together international experts from a wide variety of backgrounds who are studying phenomena inherently similar to the formation of large clusters by the union of many separate, small elements, to present and exchange ideas on new theories and results of experimental and computer simulations. This book is divided into 57 chapters, each of which represents an oral presentation that is part of a unified whole. The book begins with a presentation on fractal concepts in aggregation and gelation, followed by presentations on topics such as aggregative fractals called ""squigs""; multi-particle fractal aggregation; theory of fractal growth processes; self-similar structures; and interface dynamics. Other chapters cover addition polymerization and related models; the kinetic gelation model; a new model of linear polymers; red cell aggregation kinetics; the Potts Model; aggregation of colloidal silica; the ballistic model of aggregation; stochastic dynamics simulation of particle aggregation; particle-cluster aggregation; kinetic clustering of clusters; computer simulations of domain growth; and perspectives in the kinetics of aggregation and gelation. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of chemistry, theoretical physics, and materials engineering.

Wave Phenomena: Modern Theory and Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 97
  • October 1, 1984
  • C. Rogers + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 7 2 0 8 - 7
This volume contains 35 of the contributions to the international meeting Wave Phenomena: Modern Theory and Applications, held at the University of Toronto, Canada, at the end of June 1983.

Electrodynamics of Continuous Media

  • 2nd Edition
  • Volume 8
  • January 1, 1984
  • L D Landau + 5 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 3 7 5 - 2
Covers the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and the theory of the macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. There is a considerable amount of new material particularly on the theory of the magnetic properties of matter and the theory of optical phenomena with new chapters on spatial dispersion and non-linear optics. The chapters on ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism and on magnetohydrodynamics have been substantially enlarged and eight other chapters have additional sections.

Ultrasonics International 83

  • 1st Edition
  • December 16, 1983
  • Sam Stuart
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 4 0 8 2 - 7
Ultrasonics International 83 contains the proceedings of the Ultrasonics International Conference held in Halifax, Canada, on July 12-14, 1983. The papers focus on the role of ultrasound in various fields such as non-destructive testing, aerospace, high power, and medicine. The papers are organized into 24 sessions, which first discuss the applications of ultrasonics in aerospace. The session on non-destructive testing then describes ultrasonic applications including automatic in-motion inspection of the tread of railway wheels by EMA excited Rayleigh waves; effect of material deformation on the velocity of critically refracted shear waves in railroad rail; and crack depth estimation using wideband laser generated surface acoustic waves. The next session is concerned with medical ultrasonics and includes papers exploring the use of reflectivity tomography in attenuating media, wave propagation in biological tissue, and ultrasonic Doppler measurement of blood flow volume rate in the abdomen. The sessions that follow consider acoustic emission, visualization, material characterization, optoacoustics, and the physics of ultrasonics. High power and underwater ultrasonics, acoustic microscopy, transducers, and instrumentation are also discussed. This monograph will be of value to physicists and other scientists interested in ultrasonics.

Analysis, Manifolds and Physics Revised Edition

  • 2nd Edition
  • Volume I
  • May 1, 1982
  • Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 8 6 0 1 7 - 0
This reference book, which has found wide use as a text, provides an answer to the needs of graduate physical mathematics students and their teachers. The present edition is a thorough revision of the first, including a new chapter entitled ``Connections on Principle Fibre Bundles'' which includes sections on holonomy, characteristic classes, invariant curvature integrals and problems on the geometry of gauge fields, monopoles, instantons, spin structure and spin connections. Many paragraphs have been rewritten, and examples and exercises added to ease the study of several chapters. The index includes over 130 entries.

Diffraction Gratings

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 6
  • January 26, 1982
  • M.C. Hutley
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 6 2 9 8 0 - 7

Quantum Electrodynamics

  • 2nd Edition
  • January 1, 1982
  • V B Berestetskii + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Several significant additions have been made to the second edition, including the operator method of calculating the bremsstrahlung cross-section, the calcualtion of the probabilities of photon-induced pair production and photon decay in a magnetic field, the asymptotic form of the scattering amplitudes at high energies, inelastic scattering of electrons by hadrons, and the transformation of electron-positron pairs into hadrons.

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