Infinity Incoming!

Infinity Incoming!
Author:
Publisher: Marvel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780785187851

The grandest comsmic epic of all time looms on the horizon as Marvel marches toward Infinity! But how did Earth's heroes reach this perilous tipping point? Learn the secret origin of the Inhumans, Marvel's strangest and most isolated community. What are the mysteries surrounding the Terrigen Mist that gives them their uncanny abilities? Then, witness the boyhood of Thanos of Titan! How will his obsession with death change the Marvel Universe's very nature? Finally, as the Avengers "go cosmic," putting together an expanded strikeforce to battle threats from the start, the illuminati work in secret to prevent incursions from other dimensions! All the threads come together as the Marvel Universe teeters on teh brink of intergalactic war! Infinity is coming! COLLECTING: Inhumans (1998), Thanos Rising 1, Avengers (2012) 1-2, New Avengers (2013) 2 and material from Thor (1966) 146-149

Thanos

Thanos
Author: Jim Starlin
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302485733

After Revelation and Relativity comes a grand Finale! Desperate times called for mad measures. Facing checkmate in his latest grand game of cosmic chess, Thanos took himself off the board - violently. Yet for the paramour of Death, oblivion is so often temporary. Now the Titan is back -- but the galaxy has been ravaged in his absence. Annihilus, lord of the Negative Zone, is stronger than ever and harnessing the godlike power of Adam Warlock to wage genocide across the posiverse. Only a handful of heroes, and one or two villains, still stand. Will those few that remain choose between two evils and ally themselves with Thanos? They would form one of the mightiest assemblages ever witnessed. But even that may not be enough to avert the total annihilation of everything there is. And this time, the obliteration of all time and space may truly be the end. Builder and destroyer of universes Jim Starlin (Infinity Gauntlet) presents an epic conclusion to his new Infinity trilogy, featuring art by Ron Lim!

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Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 168
Release:
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ISBN: 1911299166

Mathematical Methods In Electromagnetism: Linear Theory And Applications

Mathematical Methods In Electromagnetism: Linear Theory And Applications
Author: Michel Cessenat
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1996-07-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814525383

This book provides the reader with basic tools to solve problems of electromagnetism in their natural functional frameworks thanks to modern mathematical methods: integral surface methods, and also semigroups, variational methods, etc., well adapted to a numerical approach.As examples of applications of these tools and concepts, we solve several fundamental problems of electromagnetism, stationary or time-dependent: scattering of an incident wave by an obstacle, bounded or not, by gratings; wave propagation in a waveguide, with junctions and cascades. We hope that mathematical notions will allow a better understanding of modelization in electromagnetism and emphasize the essential features related to the geometry and nature of materials.

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Author: Leonard Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2009-08-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139480855

Quantum field theory in curved spacetime has been remarkably fruitful. It can be used to explain how the large-scale structure of the universe and the anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation that we observe today first arose. Similarly, it provides a deep connection between general relativity, thermodynamics, and quantum field theory. This book develops quantum field theory in curved spacetime in a pedagogical style, suitable for graduate students. The authors present detailed, physically motivated, derivations of cosmological and black hole processes in which curved spacetime plays a key role. They explain how such processes in the rapidly expanding early universe leave observable consequences today, and how in the context of evaporating black holes, these processes uncover deep connections between gravitation and elementary particles. The authors also lucidly describe many other aspects of free and interacting quantized fields in curved spacetime.

From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams

From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams
Author: Riccardo D'Auria
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 8847015049

The first two chapters of the book deal, in a detailed way, with relativistic kinematics and dynamics, while in the third chapter some elementary concepts of General Relativity are given. Eventually, after an introduction to tensor calculus, a Lorentz covariant formulation of electromagnetism is given its quantization is developed. For a proper treatment of invariance and conservation laws in physics, an introductory chapter on group theory is given. This introduction is propedeutical to the discussion of conservation laws in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism, which will allow us to export this formalism to quantum mechanics and, in particular, to introduce linear operators on quantum states and their transformation laws. In the last part of the book we analyze, in the first quantized formalism, relativistic field theory for both boson and fermion fields. The second quantization of free fields is then introduced and some preliminary concepts of perturbation theory and Feynmann diagrams are given and some relevant examples are worked out.

General Relativistic Effects and Elliptic Functions

General Relativistic Effects and Elliptic Functions
Author: F.T. Hioe
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2024-03-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1036402363

This collection of articles highlights all possible trajectories of particles and light under the influence of a gravitational field of all possible strengths that may exist in our universe, including that of a black hole; and it also highlights the beautiful mathematical formulas that can express all these trajectories, according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity. For this to be possible, the authors use mathematical functions called elliptic functions that can describe orbits, including the familiar circular, elliptical, parabolic and hyperbolic orbits. Some readers can put aside technical terms such as “Schwarzschild metric” which simply specifies a certain condition that excludes cases such as a spinning black hole, and “Parameter Space” which simply specifies all possible energy, momentum of an object or light and the character of the massive body (black hole included), and go directly to see the mathematical expressions that describe the trajectories, and the relevant graphs.

General Relativity

General Relativity
Author: Robert M. Wald
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2010-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226870375

"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and understanding."—S. Chandrasekhar "A tour de force: lucid, straightforward, mathematically rigorous, exacting in the analysis of the theory in its physical aspect."—L. P. Hughston, Times Higher Education Supplement "Truly excellent. . . . A sophisticated text of manageable size that will probably be read by every student of relativity, astrophysics, and field theory for years to come."—James W. York, Physics Today

High-frequency Electrodynamics

High-frequency Electrodynamics
Author: Boris Z. Katsenelenbaum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2006-08-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527608303

This first book to develop the theoretical basics from the concept of guided wave optics is all set to become a standard in fundamental concepts of electromagnetic waves within the field of telecommunications. Maxwell equations Plane waves Closed waveguides Closed Resonators Open Lines Backgrounds of Antenna Theory Diffraction on Metallic and Dielectric Objects Complementary References With its chapters on high frequency waveguides this book is aimed at both scientists and professionals in electrical engineering and telecommunications.

Spectral Analysis, Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics: A Festschrift in Honor of Fritz Gesztesy's 60th Birthday

Spectral Analysis, Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics: A Festschrift in Honor of Fritz Gesztesy's 60th Birthday
Author: Helge Holden
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2013-07-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821875744

This volume contains twenty contributions in the area of mathematical physics where Fritz Gesztesy made profound contributions. There are three survey papers in spectral theory, differential equations, and mathematical physics, which highlight, in particu