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DIRECTION OF TIME by REICHENBACH HANS
Category: Science | Series: Dover Books on Physics Ser.
Ever a source of philosophical conjecture and debate, the concept of time represents the beating heart of physics. This final work by the distinguished physicist Hans Reichenbach represents the culmination and integration of a lifetime's philosophical contributions and inquiries into the analysis of tim ...Show more
Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Max Born
Category: Science | Series: Dover Books on Physics Ser.
About the Book Books about Physics discuss the science that is concerned with the universe, energy and matter, and how they behave over time and space. Titles include: Fundamental measurements, properties of matter and optics, An Introduction to Electrodynamics from the Standpoint of the Electron Theory ...Show more
Electrodynamics and Classical Theory of Fields and Particles by Asim O. Barut
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Dover Books on Physics Ser.
"We can only hope that more such striking expositions will be written." -- Bulletin of the American Mathematical SocietyThis is a systematic, covariant treatment of the classical theories of particle motion, fields, and the interaction of fields and particles. Particular attention is given to the intera ...Show more
Functional Methods and Models in Quantum Field Theory by H. M. Fried
Category: Popular Science | Series: Dover Books on Physics Ser.
Functional Methods and Models in Quantum Field Theory presents a unified description of the major soluble and approximate models of relativistic quantum field theory. The first half offers a compact expression and derivation of functional methods applicable to relativistic quantum field theory. The seco ...Show more
Reasoning about Luck - Probability and Its Uses in Physics by Vinay Ambegaokar
Category: Other Science | Series: Dover Books on Physics Ser.
This book introduces college students and other readers to the uses of probability and statistics in the physical sciences, focusing on thermal and statistical physics and touching upon quantum physics. Widely praised as beautifully written and thoughtful, Reasoning About Luck explains concepts in a way ...Show more
Special Relativity for Physicists by G. Stephenson; C. W. Kilmister
Category: Science | Series: Dover Books on Physics Ser.
"Even in the most technical sections, the authors' writing is delightfully lucid, and they give many applications to classical and modern physics . . . Undergraduates, and those who require some understanding of special relativity for their work in other fields, will find this elegant work a pleasure to ...Show more
Theory of Relativity by W. Pauli; Arnold Sommerfeld (Preface by)
Category: Science | Series: Dover Books on Physics Ser.
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) was one of the 20th-century's most influential physicists. He was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize for physics for the discovery of the exclusion principle (also called the Pauli principle). A brilliant theoretician, he was the first to posit the existence of the neutrino and one ...Show more
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