Category: modern physics

book quality	: Excellent
Language	: English
Auther	: John Polkinghorne
Number of Pages	: 130
Section	: modern physics
Department	: Natural Science
Size of file	: 0.89MB
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10

Author: John Polkinghorne

About the Author: John Carlton Polkinghorn, British theoretical physicist, religious thinker, writer, and Anglican priest, born in 1930 As president of Queen’s College Cambridge from 1988 to 1996, Polkinghorne authored five books on physics and twenty-six books on the relationship between science and religion. His books include Quantum World 1989, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Connection 2005, Exploring Truth: The Intertwining of Science and Religion 2007 , Questions of Truth 2009, A Polkinghorn Reader (edited by Thomas J. Ord) and providing key summaries of Polkinghorn’s most influential books, knighted in 1997 and awarded a £1m Templeton Prize in 2002 for his outstanding contributions to affirming the spiritual dimension of life.

Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction book pdf download By John Polkinghorne

Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. The main text makes no use of equations, but there is a Mathematical Appendix for those desiring stronger fare. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics, complementarity, the problematic character of measurement, and decoherence are among the many topics discussed. This volume offers the reader access to one of the greatest discoveries in the history of physics and one of the oustanding intellectual achievements of the twentieth century.

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Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10
Auther	: John Polkinghorne
Department	: Natural Science
Section	: modern physics
Number of Pages	: 131
Language	: English
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 0.46MB

Author: John Polkinghorne

About the Author: John Carlton Polkinghorn, British theoretical physicist, religious thinker, writer, and Anglican priest, born in 1930 As president of Queen’s College Cambridge from 1988 to 1996, Polkinghorne authored five books on physics and twenty-six books on the relationship between science and religion. His books include Quantum World 1989, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Connection 2005, Exploring Truth: The Intertwining of Science and Religion 2007 , Questions of Truth 2009, A Polkinghorn Reader (edited by Thomas J. Ord) and providing key summaries of Polkinghorn’s most influential books, knighted in 1997 and awarded a £1m Templeton Prize in 2002 for his outstanding contributions to affirming the spiritual dimension of life.

Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship book pdf download By John Polkinghorne

Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest thought-provoking book. From his unique perspective as both theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, Polkinghorne considers aspects of quantum physics and theology and demonstrates that the two truth-seeking enterprises are engaged in analogous rational techniques of inquiry. His exploration of the deep connections between science and Christology shows with new clarity a common kinship in the search for truth. Among the many parallels he identifies are patterns of historical development in quantum physics and in Christology; wrestling with perplexities such as quantum interpretation and the problem of evil; and the drive for an overarching view in the Grand Unified Theories of physics and in Trinitarian theology. Both theology and science are propelled by a desire to understand the world through experienced reality, and Polkinghorne explains that their viewpoints are by no means mutually exclusive.

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Size of file	: 0.99MB
Number of Pages	: 147
Department	: Natural Science
Auther	: John Polkinghorne
Section	: modern physics
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10
book quality	: Excellent
Language	: Portuguese

Author: John Polkinghorne

About the Author: John Carlton Polkinghorn, British theoretical physicist, religious thinker, writer, and Anglican priest, born in 1930 As president of Queen’s College Cambridge from 1988 to 1996, Polkinghorne authored five books on physics and twenty-six books on the relationship between science and religion. His books include Quantum World 1989, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Connection 2005, Exploring Truth: The Intertwining of Science and Religion 2007 , Questions of Truth 2009, A Polkinghorn Reader (edited by Thomas J. Ord) and providing key summaries of Polkinghorn’s most influential books, knighted in 1997 and awarded a £1m Templeton Prize in 2002 for his outstanding contributions to affirming the spiritual dimension of life.

Teoria Quântica: uma Breve Introdução book pdf download By John Polkinghorne

“Não é exagero algum pensar na teoria quântica como uma das realizações intelectuais mais incríveis do século XX, e em sua descoberta como a representação de uma verdadeira revolução em nossa compreensão do processo físico.” A teoria quântica é uma das descobertas mais revolucionárias do mundo da física. Este livro fascinante relata o esforço que tem sido feito para entender as propriedades fundamentais da matéria, mas sem a complexidade de fórmulas e equações (para os mais curiosos, há um apêndice matemático). John Polkinghorne, renomado físico e teólogo inglês, apresenta o tema por meio da história das descobertas quânticas e de referências a cientistas e experimentos destacando os conceitos centrais da teoria, como descoerência, complementaridade, caologia quântica e o princípio da incerteza, conduzindo o leitor pelos mistérios do mundo subatômico.

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Section	: modern physics
Language	: English
Number of Pages	: 191
Department	: Natural Science
Auther	: Yury Georgievich Gogotsi
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10
Size of file	: 9.99MB
book quality	: Excellent

Author: Yury Georgievich Gogotsi

About the Author: Yury Georgievich Gogotsi (born December 16, 1961, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA since the year 2000 in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology. Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor of materials science at Drexel University — director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (since 2014 – A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute). Gogotsi works on synthesis and surface modification of inorganic nanomaterials, such as nanodiamond, carbide-derived carbons, nanotubes, and two-dimensional carbides and nitrides (MXenes). His group also explores energy related and other applications of materials discovered and developed in Gogotsi Lab. His work on carbon and carbide nanomaterials with tunable structure and porosity had a major impact on the field of capacitive energy storage.

Corrosion of High-Performance Ceramics book pdf download By Yury Georgievich Gogotsi

“Corrosion of High-Performance Ceramics” is a comprehensive survey of the state of the art of this new field of research. It presents the first generalized description of the corrosion of engineering ceramics and its effect on their mechanical properties (based on Si3N4, SiC, AlN, B4C, BN, Al2O3, ZrO2). Researchers, engineers and graduate students are provided with a guide to the performance of non-oxide and oxide ceramicsin corrosive environments. Keywords: high-temperature oxidation; hot corrosion; corrosion in acids, alkalis and molten salts; effects of corrosion on the physico-mechanical properties of ceramics; stress corrosion; corrosion protection; development of oxidation-resistant ceramics; role of purity, donations and microstructure.

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Number of Pages	: 305
Language	: English
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-25
Section	: modern physics
Department	: Natural Science
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 11.0MB
Auther	: Gregory Dewey

Author: Gregory Dewey

About the Author: Gregory Dewey, Ph.D., has been named President of Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The Board of Trustees of Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has selected Gregory Dewey, Ph.D., to be the College’s next president. When he assumes his new role on July 1, 2014, Dr. Dewey will become just the eighth president in the school’s 132-year history.
Dr. Dewey currently serves as Provost at the University of La Verne in California, a role he has held since 2009. In that capacity, he has been responsible for achieving the highest standards of academic excellence, ensuring outstanding teaching and promoting scholarly and creative activities. During his time at La Verne, he has overseen academic affairs, student affairs, student services, enrollment management, financial aid, and athletics for the institution. The University of La Verne is a comprehensive doctoral university that enrolls approximately 8,000 students over four colleges and nine regional campuses.

Biophysical and Biochemical Aspects of Fluorescence Spectroscopy book pdf download By Gregory Dewey

Fluorescence spectroscopy has traditionally found wide application in bio­ chemistry and cell biology. Since there are relatively few naturally occurring fluorescent biomolecules, fluorescence spectroscopy offers a combination of great specificity and sensitivity. Historically, these features have been ex­ ploited with great success utilizing both intrinsic and extrinsic probes. Re­ cent applications have built upon these traditional strengths and have re­ sulted in the development of new instrumental techniques, novel and convenient fluorescent probes, and a deeper, theoretical understanding of fundamental processes. Frequently, fluorescence techniques are tailored to attack a specific biological problem. These new methods in turn produce new physical situations and phenomena which are often of interest to the physical chemist. Thus, progress in one area stimulates renewed interest in other areas. The goal of this book is to provide detailed monographs on the use of fluorescence to investigate problems at the forefront of biochemistry and cell biology. This book is not meant to be a comprehensive survey but rather to highlight areas of recent developments. It is designed to be readable to the novice and yet provide sufficient detail for the expert to keep abreast of recent developments. The book is organized so that it proceeds from simple biochemical sys­ tems to more complex cell biological ones. Chapter I on fluorescence quenching of biological structures is a good introductory chapter. It intro­ duces a number of elementary concepts and discusses applications to pro­ teins and biomembranes.

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Number of Pages	: 320
Size of file	: 5.99MB
Language	: English
Auther	: Roy Michael Harrison
Department	: Natural Science
book quality	: Excellent
Section	: modern physics
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-25

Author: Roy Michael Harrison

About the Author: Roy Michael Harrison is a British academic who is the Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental health at the University of Birmingham in the UK and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Harrison was educated at Henley Grammar School and the University of Birmingham where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1969, followed by a PhD in Organic chemistry in 1972 and a Doctor of Science in Environmental chemistry in 1989. His PhD research investigated sigmatropic reactions of tropolone ethers.Harrison is an expert on air pollution, specialising in the area of airborne particulates, including nanoparticles. His interests extend from source emissions, through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations, to human exposures and effects upon health. His most significant work has been in the field of vehicle emitted particles, including their chemical composition and atmospheric processing. This forms the basis of the current understanding of the relationship of emissions to roadside concentrations and size distributions.
In addition to leading a large project on diesel exhaust particles, he is also engaged in major collaborative studies of processes determining air quality in Beijing and Delhi.Harrison’s work has been recognised by award of the John Jeyes Medal and Environment Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Fitzroy Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society. He has served for many years as a chair and/or member of advisory committees of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Health. He was appointed Order of the British Empire OBE in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to environmental science and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.

Ultrafine particles in the atmosphere book pdf download By Roy Michael Harrison

Following the recognition that airborne particulate matter, even at quite modest concentrations, has an adverse effect on human health, there has been an intense research effort to understand the mechanisms and quantify the effects. One feature that has shone through is the important role of ultrafine particles as a contributor to the adverse effects of airborne particles. In this volume, many researchers in the field have collaborated to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the scientific and medical research on ultrafine particles.

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Department	: Natural Science
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-29
Language	: English
Size of file	: 2.82MB
book quality	: Excellent
Number of Pages	: 278
Section	: modern physics
Auther	: James Binney

Author: James Binney

About the Author: Merton’s Professorial Fellow in Physics James Binney FRS has been awarded the Occhialini Medal and Prize for 2015 by the Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF – the Italian Physical Society).
The award recognises his work on galaxy dynamics, in particular the development of an understanding of how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium, and of how this exchange controls the evolution of galaxy morphology.
In 2007 the SIF, together with the UK-based Institute of Physics, instituted the Occhialini Medal and Prize in honour of Giuseppe Occhialini, the Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion in 1947 whilst working at the University of Bristol. The award is made alternately by the council of one of the two societies to a physicist selected from a list of nominees submitted by the other.

The Physics of Quantum Mechanics book pdf download By James Binney

The Physics of Quantum Mechanics aims to give students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material world. It shows that the theory follows naturally from the use of probability amplitudes to derive probabilities. It stresses that stationary states are unphysical mathematical abstractions that enable us to solve the theory’s governing equation, the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. Every opportunity is taken to illustrate the emergence of the familiarclassical, dynamical world through the quantum interference of stationary states. The text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum world.The connections between observables, operators and transformations are clearly explained and the standard commutation rules derived from the properties of spacetime. A chapter is devoted to entanglement, quantum computation, density operators and their role in thermodynamics, and the measurement problem. Scattering phenomena, including the origin of radioactivity, are handled early on in the accessible context of one dimension, and at the end of the book with some rigour in three dimensions.Hydrogen and helium are discussed in some detail and it is shown that quantum mechanics enables us to understand the structure of the periodic table without engaging with the complexities of many-electron atoms.Dirac notation is used from the outset and students are trained to move easily from one representation to another, choosing whichever representation is best suited to a particular problem. The mathematical prerequisites are no more than simple vector algebra, Taylor series expansion and the use of integrating factors to solve linear first order differential equations. Rigorous algebraic methods are preferred to the solution of partial differential equations.

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Date of Coming	: 2022-08-29
Language	: English
Section	: modern physics
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 3.33MB
Number of Pages	: 203
Department	: Natural Science
Auther	: James Binney

Author: James Binney

About the Author: Merton’s Professorial Fellow in Physics James Binney FRS has been awarded the Occhialini Medal and Prize for 2015 by the Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF – the Italian Physical Society).
The award recognises his work on galaxy dynamics, in particular the development of an understanding of how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium, and of how this exchange controls the evolution of galaxy morphology.
In 2007 the SIF, together with the UK-based Institute of Physics, instituted the Occhialini Medal and Prize in honour of Giuseppe Occhialini, the Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion in 1947 whilst working at the University of Bristol. The award is made alternately by the council of one of the two societies to a physicist selected from a list of nominees submitted by the other.

Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction book pdf download By James Binney

Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole.

In this Very Short Introduction, the leading astrophysicist James Binney shows how the field of astrophysics has expanded rapidly in the past century, with vast quantities of data gathered by telescopes exploiting all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, combined with the rapid advance of computing power, which has allowed increasingly effective mathematical modelling. He illustrates how the application of fundamental principles of physics – the consideration of energy and mass, and momentum – and the two pillars of relativity and quantum mechanics, has provided insights into phenomena ranging from rapidly spinning millisecond pulsars to the collision of giant spiral galaxies. This is a clear, rigorous introduction to astrophysics for those keen to cut their teeth on a conceptual treatment involving some mathematics.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable

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Date of Coming	: 2022-08-29
Number of Pages	: 455
Language	: Spanish
Department	: Natural Science
Auther	: Sean Carroll
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 13.4MB
Section	: modern physics

Author: Sean Carroll

About the Author: ean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He has wide-ranging interests, including in philosophy, complexity theory, and information.
Carroll is an active science communicator, and has been blogging regularly since 2004. His textbook “Spacetime and Geometry” has been adopted by a number of universities for their graduate courses in general relativity. He is a frequent public speaker, and has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report and Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has produced a set of lectures for The Teaching Company on dark matter and dark energy, and another on the nature of time. He has served as a science consultant for films such as Thor and TRON: Legacy, as well as for TV shows such as Fringe and Bones.
His 2010 popular book, “From Eternity to Here,” explained the arrow of time and connected it with the origin of our universe. “The Particle at the End of the Universe,” about the Large Hadron Collider and the quest to discover the Higgs boson, was released November 2012, “The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself” in May 2016, and “Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime” in 2019. His next book project is “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe,” which will consist of three books. The first, “Space, Time, and Motion,” appears in September 2022.

La partícula al final del universo: del bosón de Higgs al umbral de un nuevo mundo book pdf download By Sean Carroll

El bosón de Higgs ha sido descrito por muchos como el mayor avance en la comprensión de nuestro universo y como uno de los descubrimientos científicos más fascinantes de nuestro tiempo. Fundamental para comprender por qué existe la masa y por qué existen los átomos, esta escurridiza partícula ha sido hallada por fin después de una inversión de 9.000 millones de dólares, décadas de esfuerzo y el trabajo de cerca de seis mil investigadores en el Gran Colisionador de Hadrones de Ginebra.
El físico del Caltech, Sean Carroll, lleva a los lectores entre los bastidores del Gran Colisionador de Hadrones en el CERN, para encontrarse con teóricos, ingenieros y experimentalistas, arroja luz sobre este hito científico y explica la ciencia del bosón de Higgs, erróneamente conocido como «la partícula divina».
Con el bosón se descubre la última pieza del rompecabezas de la materia ordinaria: los átomos y las fuerzas que subyacen en todas partes, desde el ADN hasta el calentamiento global. Ahora se abre una puerta de entrada a lo extraordinario: el alucinante mundo de la materia oscura y más allá.
La partícula al final del universo no solo explica la importancia del bosón de Higgs, sino también la del Gran Colisionador de Hadrones. Una historia de cómo el ansia de conocimiento del ser humano ha conducido el mayor logro científico de nuestro tiempo.

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Language	: English
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-29
Section	: modern physics
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 14.7MB
Department	: Natural Science
Auther	: Sean Carroll
Number of Pages	: 394

Author: Sean Carroll

About the Author: ean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He has wide-ranging interests, including in philosophy, complexity theory, and information.
Carroll is an active science communicator, and has been blogging regularly since 2004. His textbook “Spacetime and Geometry” has been adopted by a number of universities for their graduate courses in general relativity. He is a frequent public speaker, and has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report and Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has produced a set of lectures for The Teaching Company on dark matter and dark energy, and another on the nature of time. He has served as a science consultant for films such as Thor and TRON: Legacy, as well as for TV shows such as Fringe and Bones.
His 2010 popular book, “From Eternity to Here,” explained the arrow of time and connected it with the origin of our universe. “The Particle at the End of the Universe,” about the Large Hadron Collider and the quest to discover the Higgs boson, was released November 2012, “The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself” in May 2016, and “Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime” in 2019. His next book project is “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe,” which will consist of three books. The first, “Space, Time, and Motion,” appears in September 2022.

The particle at the end of the universe book pdf download By Sean Carroll

It was the universe’s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider don’t happen without incredible risks – and occasional skullduggery. In the definitive account of this landmark event, Caltech physicist and acclaimed science writer Sean Carroll reveals the insights, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs discovery, and takes us on a riveting and irresistible ride to the very edge of physics today.

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