Handbook of physics /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Benenson, Walter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Mechanics
  • 1. Kinematics
  • 2. Dynamics
  • 3. Rigid bodies
  • 4. Gravitation and the theory of relativity
  • 5. Mechanics of continuous media
  • 6. Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and fractals
  • 7. Tables on mechanics
  • pt. II. Vibrations and waves
  • 8. Vibrations
  • 9. Waves
  • 10. Acoustics
  • 11. Optics
  • 12. Tables on vibrations, waves, acoustics and optics
  • pt. III. Electricity
  • 13. Charges and currents
  • 14. Electric and magnetic fields
  • 15. Applications in electrical engineering
  • 16. Current conduction in liquids, gases and vacuum
  • 17. Plasma physics
  • 18. Tables on electricity
  • pt. IV. Thermodynamics
  • 19. Equilibrium and state variables
  • 20. Heat, conversion of energy and changes of state
  • 21. Phase transitions, reactions and equalizing of heat
  • 22. Tables on thermodynamics
  • pt. V. Quantum physics
  • 23. Photons, electromagnetic radiation and light quanta
  • 24. Matter waves : wave mechanics of particles
  • 25. Atomic and molecular physics
  • 26. Elementary particle physics : standard model
  • 27. Nuclear physics
  • 28. Solid-state physics
  • 29. Tables in quantum physics
  • pt. VI. Appendix
  • 30. Measurements and measurement errors
  • 31. Vector calculus
  • 32. Differential and integral calculus
  • 33. Tables on the SI.