Bücher der Reihe Student Physics Series

This is a refreshing, non-historic approach to particle physics. It concentrates on the 'standard model' and the gauge symmetries, since these form the core of the subject. After this introduction, the gauge theories are covered followed by the hadrons.

In this revised and enlarged second edition, Tony Guenault provides a clear and refreshingly readable introduction to statistical physics. The treatment itself is self-contained and concentrates on an understanding of the physical ideas, without requiring a high level of mathematical sophistication.

The following four chapters provide solutions of Maxwell's equations for the propagation of electro magnetic waves in free space, in dielectrics, across interfaces and in conductors respectively.

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On the one hand the classical explanation is in terms of classical concepts: electric charge q, electric and magnetic fields (E and B) and electric currents. Although this text is primarily concerned with classical explanations in a logical, self-consistent sequence, they are related to microscopic (quantum) explanations at each stage.

8 Viscometers 160 Chapter 7 Surface effects 163 7. 2 Excess surface free energy and surface tension of liquids 163 7. 7 liquid surfaces and the Laplace-Young equation 174 7. 8 liquid spreading 178 7. 13 The measurement of surface free energies 191 Chapter 8 High polymers and liquid crystals 197 8.

This book is intended for the use of final-year undergraduates and first-year postgraduates. One appendix is devoted to calculating the scattering amplitudes for fermion + fermion going to fermion + fermion, which is, if anything, the 'basic' process.

At the present time, even though superseded on the very small scale by quantum theory and on the very large scale by the theory of relativity, the mechanics of Newton is perfectly adequate for treating a wide spectrum of problems from the * '"etic theory of gases to the motion of space vehicles.