Time: A Philosophical Introduction by: James Harrington (Author) Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication Date: 2015/9/24 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1472505573 ISBN-13: 9781472505576 Book Description Time: A Philosophical Introduction presents the philosophy of time as the central debate between being and the becoming.This core theme brings together the key topics, debates and thinkers, making ideas such as Zeno’s paradoxes, the experience of change and temporal f...
Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality: The Importance of Being Borderline by: Sergio Chibbaro (Author),Lamberto Rondoni(Author),Angelo Vulpiani(Author)&0more Publisher: Springer Edition: 2014th Publication Date: 2014/5/28 Language: English Print Length: 175 pages ISBN-10: 331906360X ISBN-13: 9783319063607 Book Description Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is sim...
The Handy Quantum Physics Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) by: Charles Liu (Author) Publisher: Visible Ink Press Publication Date: 2024/7/16 Language: English Print Length: 480 pages ISBN-10: 1578598370 ISBN-13: 9781578598373 Book Description Quantum physics helps explain many mysteries of the universe. It underpins everything, but it need not be quantum difficult with this informative, accessible, easy-to-follow guide to the fundamentals and concepts of quantum physics and our quantum...
Nonequilibrium and Irreversibility (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) by: Gallavotti (Author) Publisher: Springer Edition: 2014th Publication Date: 2014/7/1 Language: English Print Length: 264 pages ISBN-10: 9783319067575 ISBN-13: 9783319067575 Book Description This book concentrates on the properties of the stationary states in chaotic systems of particles or fluids, leaving aside the theory of the way they can be reached. The stationary states of particles or of fluids (understood as proba...
The Tai Chi in Star Formation (Iop Concise Physics) by: Hua-Bai Li (Author) Publisher: Iop Concise Physics Publication Date: 2017/11/1 Language: English Print Length: 64 pages ISBN-10: 1643278843 ISBN-13: 9781643278841 Book Description Tai Chi, a Chinese martial art developed based on the laws of nature, emphasises how ‘to conquer the unyielding with the yielding.’ The recent observation of star formation shows that stars result from the interaction between gravity, turbulence and ma...
A Student’s Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume III: Electricity, Magnetism and Light (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) by: Kerry Kuehn (Author) Publisher: Springer Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Publication Date: 2015/12/23 Language: English Print Length: 497 pages ISBN-10: 3319218158 ISBN-13: 9783319218151 Book Description This book provides a chronological introduction to the electromagnetic theory of light, using selected extracts from classic texts such as Gilbert’s De Magnete...
Classical Field Theory and the Stress-Energy Tensor (Iop Concise Physics) by: Mark S Swanson (Author) Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publication Date: 2015/10/12 Language: English Print Length: 187 pages ISBN-10: 1681740575 ISBN-13: 9781681740577 Book Description This book is a concise introduction to the key concepts of classical field theory for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who wish to study the unifying structures and physical insights provided by classica...
Quantum Mathematical Physics: A Bridge between Mathematics and Physics by: Felix Finster (Editor),Johannes Kleiner (Editor),Christian Röken (Editor),Jürgen Tolksdorf (Editor)&1more Publisher: Birkhäuser Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Publication Date: 2016/3/4 Language: English Print Length: 532 pages ISBN-10: 9783319269009 ISBN-13: 9783319269009 Book Description Quantum physics has been highly successful for more than 90 years. Nevertheless, a rigorous construction of interacting quantum field theor...
The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism (Archimedes, 68) by: Walter Roy Laird (Author) Publisher: Springer Edition: 2024th Publication Date: 2024/6/1 Language: English Print Length: 437 pages ISBN-10: 3031455045 ISBN-13: 9783031455049 Book Description This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo. Fr...
Seven Tales of the Pendulum by: Gregory L. Baker (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2011/3/22 Language: English Print Length: 246 pages ISBN-10: 0199589518 ISBN-13: 9780199589517 Book Description The pendulum is a unique physical system which exhibits remarkably varied and complex behavior under many different conditions. It is also a system which, in its many manifestations, has left a significant imprint on human thought and culture. Using graphs, figure...
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