Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for th...

Focus on the fundamentals and help students see connections between problem types Richard Wolfson's Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life applications in an affordable and streamlined text. The book teaches sound problem-solving strategies and emphasises conceptual understanding, using features such as annotated figures and step-by-step problem-solving strategies. Realising st...

Fourier analysis is a ubiquitous tool that has found application to diverse areas of physics and engineering. Goodman focuses on applications in optics, and in particular with applications to diffraction, imaging, optical information processing, holography, and optical communications.

Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics satisfies the needs of several different types of Physics and Engineering courses. Directed towards both physicists and engineers this text is suitable for audiences focus...

Einstein has succeeded in separating far more completely than hitherto the share of the observer and the share of external nature in the things we see happen. The perception of an object by an observer depends on his own situation and circumstances; for example, distance will make it appear smaller and dimmer. We make allowance for this almost unconsciously in interpreting what we see. But it now appears that the allowance made for the motion of the observer has hitherto been too crude|a fact...

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin for Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726. The Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a de...

Het is waarschijnlijk nooit eerder in de geschiedenis van een wetenschap voorgekomen dat de grondslagen ervan zo vol komen en in zo korte tijd werden herzien als die van de natuurkunde omstreeks 1920. Niels Bohr gaf in 1913 een krachtige stoot in de richting van de moderne natuurkunde toen hij de quantum"hypothese' toepaste op het atoommodel van Rutherford. Het is op dit moment nog maar moeilijk te begrijpen hoe revolutionair deze gedachte op dat ogenblik was. Bohr gaf echter niet alleen de ...

Overzichtelijk en in beknopte vorm verschaft dit handige gebruiksboek de basisgegevens, grootheden, eenheden en formules van de natuurkunde. Van groot nut voor studerenden. Onmisbare geheugensteun voor de vrouw of man uit de praktijk.

De aangewezen methode om enigzins thuis te geraken in de overstelpende hoeveelheid en menigvuldigheid van de natuurkundige verschijnselen, is die welke begint bij de grondslagen en een systematisch geheel van oorzaak en gevolg opbouwt, zodat men de grote samenhangen leert zien en ongemerkt zelf natuurkundig leert denken. Braunbek volgt dan ook de beproefde indeling van beweging en energie, geluid, warmte, magnetisme en elektriciteit om te eindigen, met de hoofdzaak van de moderne atoomfysica.

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