Gravity category: 273 books
Fundamentals of Quantum Physics
Textbook for Students of Science and Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book presents a comprehensive course of quantum mechanics for undergraduate and graduate students. After a brief outline of the innovative ideas that lead up to the quantum theory, the book reviews properties of the Schrödinger equation, the quantization phenomena and the physical meaning of...
by Ermis Mitsou
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This thesis presents significant new results on the problem of understanding the origin of dark energy in cosmology. The work develops an original approach based on modifications of General Relativity at cosmological scales, introducing non-local effective terms that can in principle emerge from...
Centennial of General Relativity
A Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
It has been over 100 years since the presentation of the Theory of General Relativity by Albert Einstein, in its final formulation, to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. To celebrate 100 years of general relativity, World Scientific publishes this volume with a dual goal: to assess the current...
Space, Time, and Spacetime
Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski's Unification of Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime, this volume contains papers, most presented at the Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, that address some of the deepest questions in physics.
Relativity Matters
From Einstein's EMC2 to Laser Particle Acceleration and Quark-Gluon Plasma
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Rafelski presents Special Relativity in a language deemed accessible to students without any topical preparation - avoiding the burden of geometry, tensor calculus, and space-time symmetries – and yet advancing in highly contemporary context all the way to research frontiers. Special Relativity...
Classical Field Theory
On Electrodynamics, Non-Abelian Gauge Theories and Gravitation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The book describes Maxwell's equations first in their integral, directly testable form, then moves on to their local formulation. The first two chapters cover all essential properties of Maxwell's equations, including their symmetries and their covariance in a modern notation. Chapter 3 is devoted...
The Large Scale Structures
A Window on the Dark Components of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Dark Energy and Dark Matter are among the greatest mysteries in modern cosmology. The present work explores in depth how large cosmic structures can help us unveil the nature of these components of the Universe. One the one hand, it focuses on a signature that Dark Energy imprints on the Cosmic Microwave...
by Norbert Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this concise primer it is shown that, with simple diagrams, the phenomena of time dilatation, length contraction and Lorentz transformations can be deduced from the fact that in a vacuum one cannot distinguish physically straight and uniform motion from rest, and that the speed of light does not...
Einstein's Theory
A Rigorous Introduction for the Mathematically Untrained
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
This book provides an introduction to the theory of relativity and the mathematics used in its processes. Three elements of the book make it stand apart from previously published books on the theory of relativity.
First, the book starts at a lower mathematical level than standard books with...
Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Modern Physics
Special Relativity, Quantum and Statistical Physics
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This is the third edition of a well-received textbook on modern physics theory. This book provides an elementary but rigorous and self-contained presentation of the simplest theoretical framework that will meet the needs of undergraduate students. In addition, a number of examples of relevant applications...
Something Deeply Hidden
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
**"Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but utterly wondrous reality."
—Brian Greene
As you read these words, copies of you are being created.**
Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of...
by Scott Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
In the grand tradition of the previous volume of this devastating series, further arguments against the validity of special relativity are presented, this time by demolishing the experimental “evidence” of the long-lived muons. Also, an experimental method to disprove the relativity of simultaneity...
by Percival Lowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Eleven years have elapsed since the writer’s first work on Mars was published in which were recorded the facts gleaned in his research up to that time and in which was set forth a theory of their explanation. Continued work in the interval has confirmed the conclusions there stated; sometimes in...
Do you know Physics?
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
This book is different from other books of similar content, not in term of the material it contains but in term of the way this material is presented. It contains fascinating puzzles and stimulating quizzes designed to assess the reader knowledge of physics. While seemingly simple, the puzzles and...