Gitterman M., Halpern V. (H.) Phase Transitions. A Brief Account with Modern Applications

Springer, 2007, 155 pages These notes are designed as a text book for a course on the Modern Physics Theory for undergraduate students. The purpose is providing a rigorous and self-contained presentation of the simplest theoretical framework using elementary mathematical tools. A number of examples of relevant applications and an appropriate list of exercises and answered questions are also given. result has been achieved. Going to the chapter...

California Institute of Technology, 980 pages, 2002. This book is an introduction to the fundamentals and 21st-century applications of all the major branches of classical physics. Classical physics and this book deal with physical phenomena on macroscopic scales. We shall take a journey through spacetime and phase space, through statistical and continuum mechanics, and through optics and relativity, both special and general. In our journey, we sh...

Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN: 0521304202, 0521438314, 516 pages The New Physics is the first book to give a complete and comprehensive account of everything that is new and most exciting in modern physics. What does the concept of chaos mean? What occurred in the first billionth of a second after the Universe came into existence? What is at the edge of space? How are stars born and how do they die? How does a laser work? What are the...

Birkh?user, 2012, 363 pages, ISBN: 0817649395 This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein’s pathbreaking achievements that sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time, radiation, and matter, and resulted in the theory of relativity. Particular attention is paid to the implications of conceptual conflicts for scient...

Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003, Third Edition, 571 pages Kinetic Theory: Classical, Quantum, and Relativistic Descriptions goes beyond the scope of other works in the field with its thorough treatment of applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Its clear exposition and emphasis on concrete examples will make it not only an excellent graduate text but also a valuable resource for researchers in such disciplines as aerospace, mechanical, a...

Greenwood Press, 2006, 365 pages, ISBN: 0313328579 Students will be introduced to the science of physics, and its applications to everyday life, in this volume. Tracing its development from antiquity to the present, the author examines all aspects of physics including motion, work, energy, heat, matter, light, and electricity. Quantum & Nuclear physics are also included. The chapter with instructions for experiments in physics will assist s...

Cаmbridge Univеrsity Prеss, 2004, 229 pages This book consolidates and brings up to date the variational theory and methods currently used in many branches of theoretical physics and chemistry. The text surveys essential ideas and methods, concentrating on theory as used in applications rather than on fine points of rigorous mathematics. Essential concepts are developed in a common notation and from a uniform critical point of view. The theory...

Princеton Univеrsity Prеss, 2007, ISBN: 0691113408, 287 pages This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to wave scattering in nonstationary materials. G. F. Roach's aim is to provide an accessible, self-contained resource for newcomers to this important field of research that has applications across a broad range of areas, including radar, sonar, diagnostics in engineering and manufacturing, geophysical prospecting, and ultrasonic m...

Springer, 2005. - 532 pp. This monograph addresses the field theoretical aspects of magnetic monopoles. Written for graduate students as well as researchers, the author demonstrates the interplay between mathematics and physics. He delves into details as necessary and develops many techniques that find applications in modern theoretical physics. This introduction to the basic ideas used for the description and construction of monopoles is also th...

Clarendon Press. 1971. 333 p. What are the critical phenomena? A survey of some basic results Useful thermodynamic relations for fluid and magnetic systems Critical-point exponents Exponent inequalities The van der Waals theory of liquid-gas phase transitions The mean field theory of magnetic phase transitions The pair correlation function and the Ornstein-Zernike theory Results provided by exact solution of model systems Results obtained from mo...