Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics 26 Surprising Insights /

This book addresses a fascinating set of questions in theoretical physics which will both entertain and enlighten all students, teachers and researchers and other physics aficionados. These range from Newtonian mechanics to quantum field theory and cover several puzzling issues that do not appear in...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Padmanabhan, Thanu (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Σειρά:Lecture Notes in Physics, 895
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a The Grand Cube of Theoretical Physics -- The Emergence of Classical Physics -- Orbits of Planets are Circles! -- The Importance of being Inverse-square -- Potential surprises in Newtonian Gravity -- Lagrange and his Points --  Getting the most of it! --  Surprises in Fluid Flows --  Isochronous Curiosities: Classical and Quantum --  Logarithms of Nature . -  Curved Spacetime for pedestrians -- Black hole is a Hot Topic --  Thomas and his Precession .-When Thomas met Foucault --  The One-body Problem -- The Straight and Narrow Path ofWaves --  If Quantum Mechanics is the Paraxial Optics, then .... -- Make it Complex to Simplify --  Nothing matters a lot -- Radiation: Caterpillar becomes Butterfly -- Photon:Wave and/or Particle --  Angular Momentum without Rotation.-Ubiquitous RandomWalk --  More on Random Walks: Circuits and a Tired Drunkard --  Gravitational Instability of the Isothermal Sphere -- Gravity bends electric field lines -- References -- Index. 
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