It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity for laypersons.

    Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson has composed an autobiography unlike any other. Dyson evocatively conveys the thrill of a deep engagement with the world-be it as scientist, citizen, student, or parent. Detailing a unique career not limited to his groundbreaking work in physics, Dyson discusses his interest in minimizing loss of life in war, in disarmament, and even in thought experiments on the expansion of our frontiers into the galaxies.

    Whilst maintaining its comprehensive depth in coverage, this edition includes up-to-date information, including sections on digital pulse processing, compound semiconductor detectors and recent detector developments.'

    Will take 25-35 days

    They infinitely warp space and time, allowing nothing to escape: not matter, not even light. They are stellar corpses that have crushed themselves into oblivion, seemingly suspending the traditional laws of physics. The Big bang may have peppered the universe with primordial black holes, as small as protons but as massive as mountains. The universe itself may be disappearing into the final black hole. Black holes (BHs) and their warping effect on spacetime are described, beginning with a discussion on stellar evolution that includes white dwarfs, supernovas and neutron stars. The structure of static, rotating, and electrically charged BHs are considered, as well as the general theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, the Einstein-Rosen bridge, and wormholes in spacetime. Attention is also given to gravitational lenses, various space geometries, quasars, Seyfert galaxies, supermassive black holes, the evaporation and particle emission of BHs, and primordial BHs, including their temperature and lifetime. The author's engrossing, non-technical explanations are enhanced by numerous illustrations.

    Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, examining the relation between heat and work in terms of heat in steam engines, air-engines, and an internal combustion machine. Translation of 1890 edition.

    It is rich in variety, large in number and provides very careful treatment of relativity. One outstanding feature is the inclusion of simple, standard examples demonstrated in different methods that will allow students to enhance and understand their calculating abilities. There are over 145 worked examples; virtually all of the standard problems are included.

    Hawking and W. Israel -- The confrontation between gravitation theory and experiment / C.M. Will -- Gravitational-radiation experiments / D.H. Douglass and V.B. Braginsky -- The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation of general relativity / A.E. Fischer and J.E. Marsden -- Global structure of spacetimes / R. Geroch and G.T. Horowitz -- The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes / B. Carter -- An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and its perturbations / S. Chandrasekhar -- Black hole astrophysics / R.D. Blandford and K.S. Thorne -- The big bang cosmology--enigmas and nostrums / R.H. Dicke and P.J.E. Peebles -- Cosmology and the early universe / Ya B. Zelʹdovich -- Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies / M.A.H. MacCallum -- Singularities and time-assymetry / R. Penrose -- Quantum field theory in curved spacetime / G.W. Gibbons -- Quantum gravity : the new synthesis / B.S. DeWitt -- The path-integral approach to quantum gravity / S.W. Hawking -- Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation / S. Weinberg.

    published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York.

    Directed to the experimental physicist working in nuclear physics or graduate students who know the essential concepts and problems. 112 illustrations.

    In recent years, because of the availability of new experimental and theoretical tools, a second stage of the physics of polymers has evolved. In this book, a noted physicist explains the radical changes that have taken place in this exciting and rapidly developing field.Pierre-Gilles de Gennes points out the three developments that have been essential for recent advances in the study of large-scale conformations and motions of flexible polymers in solutions and melts. They are the advent of neutron-scattering experiments on selectively deuterated molecules; the availability of inelastic scattering of laser light, which allows us to study the cooperative motions of the chains; and the discovery of an important relationship between polymer statistics and critical phenomena, leading to many simple scaling laws.Until now, information relating to these advances has not been readily accessible to physical chemists and polymer scientists because of the difficulties in the new theoretical language that has come into use. Professor de Gennes bridges this gap by presenting scaling concepts in terms that will be understandable to students in chemistry and engineering as well as in physics.

    It offers the most comprehensive program available.

    The text begins with an exposition of those aspects of tensor calculus and differential geometry needed for a proper exposition of the subject. The discussion then turns to the spacetime of general relativity and to geodesic motion, comparisons and contrasts with Newton's theory being drawn where appropriate. A brief consideration of the field equations is followed by a discussion of physics in the vicinity of massive objects, including an elementary treatment of black holes. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of the theory that have observational consequences. The book concludes with brief introductory chapters on gravitational radiation and cosmology, and includes an appendix that reviews the special theory of relativity. In preparing this new edition, the authors have made extensive revisions to the original text. In particular, the first three chapters -- covering coordinate systems, tensors and the geometry of curved spaces -

    Subsequently we describe various applications to quantum statistical mechanics. At the outset of this project we intended to cover this material in one volume but in the course of develop ment it was realized that this would entail the omission ofvarious interesting topics or details. Consequently the book was split into two volumes, the first devoted to the general theory of operator algebras and the second to the applications. This splitting into theory and applications is conventional but somewhat arbitrary. In the last 15-20 years mathematical physicists have realized the importance of operator algebras and their states and automorphisms for problems of field theory and statistical mechanics. But the theory of 20 years aga was largely developed for the analysis of group representations and it was inadequate for many physical applications. Thus after a short honey moon period in which the new found tools of the extant theory were applied to the most amenable problems a longer and more interesting period ensued in which mathematical physicists were forced to redevelop the theory in relevant directions. New concepts were introduced, e. g. asymptotic abelian ness and KMS states, new techniques applied, e. g. the Choquet theory of barycentric decomposition for states, and new structural results obtained, e. g. the existence of a continuum of nonisomorphic type-three factors."

    Many features of the longer work appear in this version, including: problems from the current literature; worked examples and chapter summaries; and true perspective drawings. This edition benefits from a general streamlining including revised and updated chapters on induced electric fields and simplified coverage of alternating currents.