Applied Physics

There’s no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the ...

Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Brief Histor...

A thorough explanation of the tenets of biomechanics At once a basic and applied science, biomechanics focuses on the mechanical cause-effect relat...

A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveriesFor centuries, people have spec...

In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakth...

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remar...

Physics to a Degree provides an extensive collection of problems suitable for self-study or tutorial and group work at the level of an undergraduat...

Relativistic hydrodynamics is a very successful theoretical framework to describe the dynamics of matter from scales as small as those of colliding...

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) describes the quantum dynamics of interacting electronic many-body systems formally exactly and in...

This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity. The topics covered include geometric formulation of special re...

The United States must operate successfully in space to help assure its security and economic well being. The Department of the Navy is a major use...

Active Galactic Nuclei This AGN textbook gives an overview on the current knowledge of the Active Galacitc Nuclei phenomenon. The spectral energy d...

As evidenced by five Nobel Prizes in physics, radio astronomy in its 80-year history has contributed greatly to our understanding of the universe. ...

Mathematical Physics for Nuclear Experiments presents an accessible introduction to the mathematical derivations of key equations used in describin...