The Physics Book

The Physics Book
Author: Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Total Pages: 1054
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402790996

“A thrilling, fast-paced excursion through the history of physical discovery . . . from silly putty to string theory” (Dr. Paul Halpern, author of Collider). Following his previous volumes, The Science Book and The Math Book, acclaimed science writer Clifford Pickover returns with a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwells demon, The Physics Book extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of “quantum resurrection.” Like the previous titles in this series, The Physics Book offers a lively and accessible account of major concepts without getting bogged down in complex details.

Topological Phases of Matter

Topological Phases of Matter
Author: Roderich Moessner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1107105536

This important graduate level text unites the physical mechanisms behind the phenomena of topological matter within a theoretical framework.

The Many Phases of Matter

The Many Phases of Matter
Author: Ganesan Venkataraman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1991
Genre: Matter
ISBN: 9780863112485

In an ethnography of the everyday practice of public policy, Dolores M. Byrnes focuses on Mi Comunidad, a job-creation programme founded in 1996 by Vicente Fox when he was governor of Guanajuato. This programme was intended to reduce migration and became an important source of empowerment for small businesses in rural Mexico. A significant aspect of the programme is the way it encourages former residents who have successfully migrated to the United States to invest in the maquilas back home. Byrnes's close look at policy implementation reveals changing relationships between families and the state.

Chemistry 2e

Chemistry 2e
Author: Paul Flowers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Chemistry
ISBN: 9781947172623

Chemistry 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning. The second edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Substantial improvements have been made in the figures, illustrations, and example exercises that support the text narrative. Changes made in Chemistry 2e are described in the preface to help instructors transition to the second edition.

Equilibrium Statistical Physics

Equilibrium Statistical Physics
Author: M. Baus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2007-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540746323

This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of matter and to the phase transitions between them. Throughout, only simple models of both ordinary and soft matter are used but these are studied in full detail. The subject is developed in a pedagogical manner, starting from the basics, going from the simple ideal systems to the interacting systems, and ending with the more modern topics. The textbook provides the student with a complete overview, intentionally at an introductory level, of the theory of phase transitions. All equations and deductions are included.

Gases, Liquids and Solids

Gases, Liquids and Solids
Author: David Tabor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1991-11-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521406673

This is now the third edition of a well established and highly successful undergraduate text. The content of the second edition has been reworked and added to where necessary, and completely new material has also been included. There are new sections on amorphous solids and liquid crystals, and completely new chapters on colloids and polymers. Using unsophisticated mathematics and simple models, Professor Tabor leads the reader skilfully and systematically from the basic physics of interatomic and intermolecular forces, temperature, heat and thermodynamics, to a coherent understanding of the bulk properties of gases, liquids and solids. The introductory material on intermolecular forces and on heat and thermodynamics is followed by several chapters dealing with the properties of ideal and real gases, both at an elementary and at a more sophisticated level. The mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of solids are considered next, before an examination of the liquid state. The author continues with chapters on colloids and polymers, and ends with a discussion of the dielectric and magnetic properties of matter in terms of simple atomic models. The abiding theme is that all these macroscopic material properties can be understood as resulting from the competition between thermal energy and intermolecular or interatomic forces. This is a lucid textbook which will continue to provide students of physics and chemistry with a comprehensive and integrated view of the properties of matter in all its many fascinating forms.

States of Matter

States of Matter
Author: David L. Goodstein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486795519

Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics, this uniquely comprehensive overview provides a rigorous, integrated treatment of physical principles and techniques related to gases, liquids, solids, and their phase transitions. 1975 edition.

Quantum Information Meets Quantum Matter

Quantum Information Meets Quantum Matter
Author: Bei Zeng
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1493990845

This book approaches condensed matter physics from the perspective of quantum information science, focusing on systems with strong interaction and unconventional order for which the usual condensed matter methods like the Landau paradigm or the free fermion framework break down. Concepts and tools in quantum information science such as entanglement, quantum circuits, and the tensor network representation prove to be highly useful in studying such systems. The goal of this book is to introduce these techniques and show how they lead to a new systematic way of characterizing and classifying quantum phases in condensed matter systems. The first part of the book introduces some basic concepts in quantum information theory which are then used to study the central topic explained in Part II: local Hamiltonians and their ground states. Part III focuses on one of the major new phenomena in strongly interacting systems, the topological order, and shows how it can essentially be defined and characterized in terms of entanglement. Part IV shows that the key entanglement structure of topological states can be captured using the tensor network representation, which provides a powerful tool in the classification of quantum phases. Finally, Part V discusses the exciting prospect at the intersection of quantum information and condensed matter physics – the unification of information and matter. Intended for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, quantum information science and related fields, the book is self-contained and no prior knowledge of these topics is assumed.

An Introduction to Liquid Crystals

An Introduction to Liquid Crystals
Author: Gregory A. DiLisi
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
ISBN: 9781643276823

Practically every display technology in use today relies on the flat, energy-efficient construction made possible by liquid crystals. These displays provide visually-crisp, vibrantly-colored images that a short time ago were thought only possible in science fiction. Liquid crystals are known mainly for their use in display technologies, but they also provide many diverse and useful applications: adaptive optics, electro-optical devices, films, lasers, photovoltaics, privacy windows, skin cleansers and soaps, and thermometers. The striking images of liquid crystals changing color under polarized lighting conditions are even on display in many museums and art galleries--true examples of 'science meeting art'. Although liquid crystals provide us with visually stunning displays, fascinating applications, and are a rich and fruitful source of interdisciplinary research, their full potential may yet remain untapped.