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1. |  By: Somnath Datta Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 12-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mechanics
Mechanics meets the requirement for an ideal text on Mechanics for undergraduate students. The book gives the readers a better understanding of topics like Rectilinear Motion, Conservation of Energy and Equation of Motion, provides a good number of examples with good use of real-time illustrations and exercises for practice and challenge. The book comprehensively covers topics like Newton's Law of Motion, Conservation Laws of momentum, Energy and Law of Gravitation and includes 180 worked-out examples and 185 end-of-chapter exercises.
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2. |  By: Susan Loepp; William K. Wootters Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 10-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Protecting Information
For many everyday transmissions, it is essential to protect digital information from noise or eavesdropping. This undergraduate introduction to error correction and cryptography is unique in devoting several chapters to quantum cryptography and quantum computing, thus providing a context in which ideas from mathematics and physics meet. By covering such topics as Shor's quantum factoring algorithm, this text informs the reader about current thinking in quantum information theory and encourages an appreciation of the connections between mathematics and science.Of particular interest are the...
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3. |  An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics By: W. N. Cottingham; D. A. Greenwood Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 22-FEB-2007 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
The new edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions, and the observations on matter-antimatter asymmetry. It has become clear that neutrinos are not mass-less, and this book gives a coherent presentation of the phenomena and the theory that describes them. It includes an account of progress in the theory of strong interactions and of advances in neutrino physics. The book clearly develops the theoretical concepts from the...
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4. |  Introduction to High Energy Physics, Fourth Edition By: Donald H. Perkins Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 13-APR-2000 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to High Energy Physics, Fourth Edition
This highly-regarded text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to modern particle physics. Extensively rewritten and updated, this 4th edition includes all the recent developments in elementary particle physics, as well as its connections with cosmology and astrophysics. As in previous editions, the balance between experiment and theory is continually emphasised. The stress is on the phenomenological approach and basic theoretical concepts rather than rigorous mathematical detail. Short descriptions are given of some of the key experiments in the field, and how they...
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5. |  Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics By: Alessandro Bettini Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 08-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics
The Standard Model is the most comprehensive physical theory ever developed. This textbook conveys the basic elements of the Standard Model using elementary concepts, without the theoretical rigor found in most other texts on this subject. It contains examples of basic experiments, allowing readers to see how measurements and theory interplay in the development of physics. The author examines leptons, hadrons and quarks, before presenting the dynamics and the surprising properties of the charges of the different forces. The textbook concludes with a brief discussion on the recent...
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6. |  By: Katrin Becker; Melanie Becker; John H. Schwarz Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 07-DEC-2006 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: String Theory and M-Theory
String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string geometry and flux compactifications, applications to cosmology and particle physics, black holes in string theory and M-theory, and the...
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7. |  By: G. L. Squires Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 30-AUG-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical Physics
Practical Physics demonstrates the purposive and critical approach that should be made to all experimental work in physics. It does not describe a systematic course of experiments, but is intended as a companion to any undergraduate course of practical work. The text is in three parts. The first deals with the statistical treatment of data, the second with experimental methods, and the third with such essential matters as keeping efficient records, accuracy in calculations, and scientific writing. The text is liberally illustrated with examples and exercises, with solutions to the latter....
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8. |  By: R. J. Singh Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 21-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Solid State Physics
Solid state physics forms an important part of the undergraduate syllabi of physics in most of the universities. The existing competing books by Indian authors have too complex technical language which makes them abstractive to Indian students who use English as their secondary language. Solid State Physics is written as per the core module syllabus of the major universities and targets undergraduate B.Sc students. The book uses lecture style in explaining the concepts which would facilitate easy understanding of the concepts. The topics have been dealt with precision and provide adequate...
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9. |  By: Gordon Fraser Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 13-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 26-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The New Physics
Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions. Recent scientific advances have led to dramatic reassessment of our understanding of the world around us, and made a significant impact on our lifestyle. In this book, leading international experts, including Nobel prize winners, explore the frontiers of modern physics, from the particles inside an atom to the stars that make up a galaxy, from nano-engineering and brain research to high-speed data networks. Revealing how physics plays a vital role in what we...
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10. |  By: Yuli V. Nazarov; Jeroen Danon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 25-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Quantum Mechanics
An accessible introduction to advanced quantum theory, this graduate-level textbook focuses on its practical applications rather than mathematical technicalities. It treats real-life examples, from topics ranging from quantum transport to nanotechnology, to equip students with a toolbox of theoretical techniques. Beginning with second quantization, the authors illustrate its use with different condensed matter physics examples. They then explain how to quantize classical fields, with a focus on the electromagnetic field, taking students from Maxwell's equations to photons, coherent states...
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11. |  Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics, Second Edition By: Eduardo Fradkin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 28-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 24-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics, Second Edition
Presenting the physics of the most challenging problems in condensed matter using the conceptual framework of quantum field theory, this book is of great interest to physicists in condensed matter and high energy and string theorists, as well as mathematicians. Revised and updated, this second edition features new chapters on the renormalization group, the Luttinger liquid, gauge theory, topological fluids, topological insulators and quantum entanglement. The book begins with the basic concepts and tools, developing them gradually to bring readers to the issues currently faced at the...
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12. |  By: Malcolm Longair Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Quantum Concepts in Physics
Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rather than following the standard axiomatic approach, this book adopts a historical perspective, explaining clearly and authoritatively how pioneers such as Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Pauli and Dirac developed the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and merged them into a coherent theory, and why the mathematical infrastructure of...
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13. |  The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics By: Leonard Susskind; George Hrabovsky Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 29-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
In The Theoretical Minimum, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course and associated math for the ardent amateur. Popular physics books give readers a taste of what physicists know, but shy away from teaching the skills required to do the work. By contrast, Susskind and Hrabovsky cover the minimum--the theoretical minimum of the title--that readers need to study more advanced topics. Beginning with classical mechanics, the work ends with discussions of electromagnetic fields and chaos theory. An alternative to the go-to-college method, The...
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14. |  By: S. Mani Naidu Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 06-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engineering Physics
Written in a lucid style, this book assimilates the best practices of conceptual pedagogy, dealing at length with various topics such as crystallography, principles of quantum mechanics, free electron theory of metals, dielectric and magnetic properties, semiconductors, superconductivity, lasers, holography, nanotechnology and optics.
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15. |  By: Avinash W. Joshi; Vijay H. Raybagkar; Vijayshri ; Keith V. Desa; Rajendra Mahamuni; Bhausaheb Shivajirao Bendre Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 22-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 21-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Emerging Physics
This book is designed as per the new Curriculum conceived for the students of B.Sc. (Physics). Although the approach is primarily qualitative, a reasonably large number of illustrative examples and segregated exercises are included, wherever possible, to ensure that the students develop a taste of real rigour of physics.
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16. |  Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Physics of Microdroplets
The Physics of Microdroplets gives the reader the theoretical and numerical tools to understand, explain, calculate, and predict the often nonintuitive observed behavior of droplets in microsystems.
Microdrops and interfaces are now a common feature in most fluidic microsystems, from biology, to biotechnology, materials science, 3D-microelectronics, optofluidics, and mechatronics. On the other hand, the behavior of droplets and interfaces in today's microsystems is complicated and involves complex 3D geometrical considerations. From a numerical standpoint, the treatment of interfaces...
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17. |  Introduction to Adaptive Lenses Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 24-APR-2012 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Adaptive Lenses
Presents readers with the basic science, technology, and applications for every type of adaptive lens
An adaptive lens is a lens whose shape has been changed to a different focal length by an external stimulus such as pressure, electric field, magnetic field, or temperature. Introduction to Adaptive Lenses is the first book ever to address all of the fundamental operation principles, device characteristics, and potential applications of various types of adaptive lenses.
This comprehensive book covers basic material properties, device structures and performance, image processing and...
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18. |  Exploring Quantum Physics through Hands-on Projects By: David Prutchi; Shanni Prutchi Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Exploring Quantum Physics through Hands-on Projects
Build an intuitive understanding of the principles behind quantum mechanics through practical construction and replication of original experiments
With easy-to-acquire, low-cost materials and basic knowledge of algebra and trigonometry, Exploring Quantum Physics through Hands-on Projects takes readers step by step through the process of re-creating scientific experiments that played an essential role in the creation and development of quantum mechanics.
Presented in near chronological order—from discoveries of the early twentieth century to new material on entanglement—this book...
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19. |  By: Paul Sanghera Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 12-APR-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Making quantum physics accessible to the non-physicists, Quantum Physics for Scientists and Technologists is a self-contained, cohesive, concise, yet comprehensive story of quantum physics presented for students and professionals in biology, chemistry, material science, engineering, computer science, nanotechnology, and related fields. The fact that all these fields are dealing with the molecules and atoms underlines the increasing need of learning quantum mechanics even in non-physics majors because quantum physics is the science of the micro and nano world of molecules, atoms, subatomic...
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20. |  By: S. Mani Naidu Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 09-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Textbook of Applied Physics
Written in a lucid style, this book assimilates the best practices of conceptual pedagogy, dealing at length with various topics such as crystallography, principles of quantum mechanics, free electron theory of metals, dielectric and magnetic properties, semi conductors, superconductivity, lasers, holography, and nanotechnology.
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