Books

Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging

Wade Allison

A unique book that explains the fundamental physics behind modern probing and imaging.
Shows how physics can benefit society by reducing the fear in people's lives and raises significant questions about our attitude to safety.
A book for every physicist who has ever needed to answer the question: 'What is physics for?
Rises above individual specialised fields to give an overview of benefits that affect everyone's lives.
Provides a basis for university courses of general interest to final year undergraduate students.
Gives the guidance which enables a wider study of applications, for instance via the internet, to be understood in context.

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Concepts in Thermal Physics

Stephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a description of the historical background to their discovery. Applications are presented to subjects as diverse as stellar astrophysics, information and communication theory, condensed matter physics, and climate change.

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Magnetism in condensed matter

Stephen J. Blundell

An understanding of the quantum mechanical nature of magnetism has led to the development of new magnetic materials which are used as permanent magnets, sensors, and in information storage. Behind these practical applications lie a range of fundamental ideas, including symmetry breaking, order parameters, excitations, frustration, and reduced dimensionality. This book presents a logical account of these ideas, starting from basic concepts in electromagnetism and quantum mechanics.

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The New Cosmic Onion

Quarks and the Nature of the Universe
Frank Close, University of Oxford, UK

The book's title itself has entered popular usage as a metaphor for the layers that can be peeled away to understand the foundations of the physical world, from dimensions and galaxies, to atoms and quarks. Keeping still-groundbreaking content from the original volume, which caught the world's attention in 1983, this fresh edition of the Cosmic Onion includes new material to reflect new views of the universe.

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The Ideas of Particle Physics

An Introduction for Scientists - 3rd Edition
G. D. Coughlan, J. E. Dodd and B. M. Gripaios

The third edition of this well-received book is a readable introduction to the world of particle physics. It bridges the gap between traditional textbooks on the subject and popular accounts that assume little or no background knowledge. Carefully revised and updated, this new edition covers all of the important concepts in our modern understanding of particle physics. The theoretical development of the subject is traced from the foundations of quantum mechanics and relativity through to the most recent particle discoveries and the formulation of modern string theory. It includes a full description of the prospects for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which will allow many key ideas to be tested. The book is intended for anyone with a background in the physical sciences who wishes to learn more about particle physics. It is also valuable to students of physics wishing to gain an introductory overview of the subject.

Third edition of a well-reviewed treatment of the modern theories of matter, energy and the structure of the universe
Includes description of most recent particle experiments and discoveries and the formulation of string theory
Will be of particular interest in preparation for the operation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN due in 2007

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Bang!

Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott

Recent progress in cosmology has made it possible to tell the story of the Universe as it happened, from the first fraction of a second after the big bang until the far future. Bang! is a lavishly illustrated attempted to do just that - see www.banguniverse.com for more information

Energy Science

Principles, Technologies, and Impacts
John Andrews and Nick Jelley

Do renewable energy sources really provide a realistic alternative to fossil fuels? How does wind power compare to nuclear power, in terms of the energy it can generate? How do we get energy from the tides, and is it really a useful source of power?

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