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The Jacket and Other Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

The Jacket and Other Stories

From adventure to fantasy to romance, the reader encounters all the following: a man having to deal with immortality, another with a chance for redemption while standing on the gallows, a woman finding new meaning in life, two Newfoundlanders who change the fashion world, an Indian boy fleeing from a residential school, and many more.

From Quanta To Quarks: More Anecdotal History Of Physics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

From Quanta To Quarks: More Anecdotal History Of Physics

This enlightening book, a sequel to QUIPS, QUOTES, AND QUANTA, helps readers to understand how physicists think about and look at the world. Starting with the discovery and investigation of cosmic rays, the book proceeds to cover some major areas of modern physics in laymen's terms. Unlike other books that deal with the history of physics, this volume concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists who created the new ideas, with a heavy emphasis on personal incidents and quotes. At the same time it presents, in every day language, the ideas created by these physicists. Both thematic and biographical in nature, readers will be entertained with humorous events in the lives of some famous scientists. Readers will also learn quite a lot about modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts intact.

Primary Sources
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Primary Sources

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11
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  • Publisher: CreateSpace

Harl Novak, a PH.D. student of history discovers a puzzling sentence in the preamble to a treaty. Although he is under time pressure to finish he tries to unravel the meaning of this enigmatic sentence. In the process he almost loses his love and his chance for an academic career while discovering a plot that he traces back to the CIA.

Problems & Solutions in Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

Problems & Solutions in Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics

This invaluable book consists of problems in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics together with their solutions. Most of the problems have been tested in class. The degree of difficulty varies from very simple to research-level. The problems illustrate certain aspects of quantum mechanics and enable the students to learn new concepts, as well as providing practice in problem solving.The book may be used as an adjunct to any of the numerous books on quantum mechanics and should provide students with a means of testing themselves on problems of varying degrees of difficulty. It will be useful to students in an introductory course if they attempt the simpler problems. The more difficult problems should prove challenging to graduate students and may enable them to enjoy problems at the forefront of quantum mechanics.

Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

This book develops and simplifies the concept of quantum mechanics based on the postulates of quantum mechanics. The text discusses the technique of disentangling the exponential of a sum of operators, closed under the operation of commutation, as the product of exponentials to simplify calculations of harmonic oscillator and angular momentum. Based on its singularity structure, the Schrödinger equation for various continuous potentials is solved in terms of the hypergeometric or the confluent hypergeometric functions. The forms of the potentials for which the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation is exactly solvable are derived in detail. The problem of identifying the states of two-level systems which have no classical analogy is addressed by going beyond Bell-like inequalities and separability. The measures of quantumness of mutual information in two two-level systems is also covered in detail.

Quips, Quotes And Quanta: An Anecdotal History Of Physics (2nd Edition)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Quips, Quotes And Quanta: An Anecdotal History Of Physics (2nd Edition)

When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy.When a young boy tried to visualize what a beam of light would look like by riding alongside it at the same speed, he began thinking along lines that eventually changed our views of space and time.When a student caught hay fever and went to recover on Heligoland, he started a major revolution in physics. These are but just some of the stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930.Quips, Quotes and Quanta (2nd Edition) is unique in that it contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Often the thinking of the creators of what is now called “modern physics” is revealed through quotes. Thematic and biographical in nature, this book also includes many personal incidents.This second edition has been revised to include new material: a prologue, epilogue, glossary and chronology, and photographs as well as additional quotes and anecdotes.

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

This invaluable textbook is divided into two parts. The first part includes a detailed discussion on the discrete transformations for the Dirac equation, as well as on the central force problem for the Dirac equation. In the second part, the external field problem is examined; pair production and vacuum polarization leading to charge renormalization are treated in detail. Relativistic Quantum Mechanic's and Introduction to Quantum Field Theory has arisen from a graduate course which the author taught for several years at the University of Alberta to students interested in particle physics and field theory.

Introduction to Electrodynamics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 494

Introduction to Electrodynamics

This introductory text begins with an examination of vector calculus. Boundary value problems of electrostatics and magnetostatics are thoroughly discussed. Other topics such as radiation, relativity, radiation from an accelerated charge, Lorentz group, Green's function, and a motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields are presented.

Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 766

Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics

The material for these volumes has been selected from 20 years of examination questions for graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, University of Chicago, MIT, SUNY at Buffalo, Princeton University and the University of ...

Quips, Quotes And Quanta: An Anecdotal History Of Physics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Quips, Quotes And Quanta: An Anecdotal History Of Physics

This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major topics include relativity theory (both special and general) and quantum mechanics.This book is unique in that it concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. Both thematic and biographical in nature, it contains a heavy emphasis on personal incidents or quotes. Readers will be entertained with humorous incidents in the lives of some famous scientists, and simultaneously learn quite a bit of modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts. Academics and anyone interested in science in the most general sense are likely to want to read this book.