Physics

The first systematic experiments in neutron scattering were carried out in the late 1940s using fission reactors built for the nuclear power programme.

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers.

This Very Short Introduction uses Newton's own unpublished writings to provide fascinating insight into the man who kept the Royal Society under his thumb, was Head of the Mint, and whose contributions to our understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered by many to be unparalleled.

As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them.

From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds.

Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers.

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father, William thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties.

This graduate level text covers an exciting and active area of research at the crossroads of several different fields in Mathematics and Physics.

Definitive, concise, and very interesting.

A collection of essays by experts in the field, exploring how nature works at every level to produce more complex and highly organized objects, systems, and organisms from much simpler components, and how our increasing understanding of this universal phenomenon of emergence can lead us to a deeper and richer appreciation of who we are as human beings and of our relationship to God.

This book presents a highly integrated, step-by-step approach to the design and construction of low-temperature measurement apparatus.

This concise, accessible text provides a thorough introduction to quantum computing - an exciting emergent field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences.

This book introduces the reader to the power of observation before, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behaviour.

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Nanomagnetism is a rapidly expanding area of research which appears to be able to provide novel applications.

Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most active and exciting branches of research, often considered to be today where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen.

Recent discoveries in astronomy, especially those made with data collected by satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, have revolutionized the science of cosmology.

The text is based on an established graduate course given at MIT that provides an introduction to the theory of the dynamical Yang-Baxter equation and its applications, which is an important area in representation theory and quantum groups.

Analytical measurements at the single molecule level under ambient conditions have become almost routine in the past few years.

Rather different problems can be lumped together under the general term 'laser control of atoms and molecules'.

This text presents a concise and thorough introduction to the main concepts and practical applications of thermodynamics and kinetics in materials science.

Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined.

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter systems.

The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical phenomena.

This book provides a critical review of the equilibrium elastic properties of rubber, together with the kinetic-theory background.

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to SchrA dinger's cat.

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe.

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe?

The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many more.

In this compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe, Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino.

David Papineau presents a controversial view of human reason, portraying it as a normal part of the natural world, and drawing on the empirical sciences to illuminate its workings.

This clear and accessible text describes the methods underlying short-term climate prediction at time scales of 2 weeks to a year.

This book gives an introduction to computational plasticity and includes the kinematics of large deformations, together with relevant continuum mechanics.

This book starts with the most elementary ideas of molecular orbital theory and leads the reader progressively to an understanding of the electronic structure, geometry and, in some cases, reactivity of transition metal complexes.

This book presents a broad collection of models and computational methods - from atomistic to continuum - applied to crystal dislocations.

Analytical Mechanics is the investigation of motion with the rigorous tools of mathematics.

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy.

Quantum field theory is arguably the most far-reaching and beautiful physical theory ever constructed, with aspects more stringently tested and verified to greater precision than any other theory in physics.

Modern crystallographic methods originate from the synergy of two main research streams, the small-molecule and the macro-molecular streams.

Modern crystallographic methods originate from the synergy of two main research streams, the small-molecule and the macro-molecular streams.

This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe.

The study of dielectric properties of biological systems and their components is important not only for fundamental scientific knowledge but also for its applications in medicine, biology, and biotechnology.

Relativistic hydrodynamics is a very successful theoretical framework to describe the dynamics of matter from scales as small as those of colliding elementary particles, up to the largest scales in the universe.

This new fourth edition of the standard text on atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) retains previous material on the fundamentals of electron optics and aberration correction, linear imaging theory (including wave aberrations to fifth order) with partial coherence, and multiple-scattering theory.

In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects.

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece?

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece?

Small-angle scattering of X-rays (SAXS) and neutrons (SANS) is an established method for the structural characterization of biological objects in a broad size range from individual macromolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids) to large macromolecular complexes.