Physics

Heat provides the energy that drives almost all geological phenomena and sets the temperature at which these phenomena operate. This book explains ...

This three-volume series presents the ideas, models and approaches essential to understanding plasma dynamics and self-organization for researchers...

The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines...

Aimed at advanced undergraduates, this self-contained textbook covers the key ideas of special and general relativity together with their applicati...

Dark matter is among the most important open problems in modern physics. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book describes the theore...

Aimed at graduate students in physics and mathematics, this book provides an introduction to recent developments in several active topics at the in...

Most astronomers and physicists now believe that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by dark matter: hypothetical particles which inter...

Covering host systems of accreting, relativistic bodies, and the high-energy phenomena associated with them, this self-contained astrophysics textb...

Exploiting Seismic Waveforms introduces a range of recent developments in seismology including the application of correlation techniques, understan...

Exploiting Seismic Waveforms introduces a range of recent developments in seismology including the application of correlation techniques, understan...

A state-of-the-art review of key topics in medical image perception science and practice, including associated techniques, illustrations and exampl...

The stratified ocean mixes episodically in small patches where energy is dissipated and density smoothed over scales of centimeters. The net effect...

The large-scale structure of the Universe is dominated by vast voids with galaxies clustered in knots, sheets, and filaments, forming a great 'cosm...

Capturing the excitement and accomplishments of X-ray astronomy, this second edition now includes a broader range of astronomical phenomena and dra...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to particle physics, bridging the gap between traditional textbooks on the subject and popular accounts t...

Why do elephants have sturdier thigh bones than humans? Why can't ostriches fly? How do bacteria swim through fluids? With each chapter structured ...

Magnetic resonance is a field that has expanded to a range of disciplines and applications, both in basic research and in its applications, and pol...

On the centenary of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, this book reviews the state-of-the-art research in geomagnetism, aeronomy an...

Category theory is unmatched in its ability to organize and layer abstractions and to find commonalities between structures of all sorts. No longer...

The Assouad dimension is a notion of dimension in fractal geometry that has been the subject of much interest in recent years. This book, written b...