Physics

Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead - and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileos Pendulum tells the story of what... More

This is the fifth edition of a well-established textbook. It is intended to provide a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics, an old subject that is at the base of all of physics, but in which there has also in recent years been rapid development. The b... More

Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of... More

CONTENTS:IntroductionElectron emissionVaccum tubesVaccum tubes rectifiersVaccum tube amplifiersGas filled tubesAtomic structureSemiconductor physicsSemiconductor diodeSpecial purpose diodesTransistorsTransistor biasingSingle stage transistor amplifersMultistage transistor amplifiersTransistor audio ... More

Can you multiply 5132437201 by 452736502785 in seventy seconds without reaching for your calculator? Well you could if you used the techniques in this revolutionary book, now available in paperback at a time of growing concern about people's numeracy. The system, described as 'the shorthand of mathe... More

Preface / FORCES AND MOMENTS - Introduction; Scalars, Vectors and Tensors; Fundamental Concepts and Operations; System of Forces; Moment of a force; Equilibrium of force systems; Analysis of spatial force systems; Action, reaction and free-body diagram / FRICTION - Introduction; Theory of friction; ... More

'Fascinating-The major strength of the book lies in the diversity of topics discussed' Nature The constants of nature are the numbers that define the essence of the Universe. They tell us how strong its forces are, and what its fundamental laws can do: the strength of gravity, of magnetism, the spee... More

This book is aimed at graduate students in physics who are studying group theory and its application to physics. It contains a short explanation of the fundamental knowledge and method, and the fundamental exercises for the method, as well as some important conclusions in group theory. The book has ... More

Today, Fracture Mechanics is a well known topic within the scientific community. Applications of Fracture Mechanics can be found in various fields ranging from solid mechanics and structures to materials sciences and computational mechanics. However, most of these results apply only to linear fractu... More