Modern classical physics : optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thorne, Kip S. (Author), Blandford, Roger D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Foundations. Newtonian physics : geometric viewpoint ; Special relativity : geometric viewpoint
  • Part II. Statistical phpysics. Kinetic theory ; Statistical mechanics ; Statistical thermodynamics ; Random processes
  • Part III. Optics. Geometric optics ; Diffraction ; Interference and coherence ; Nonlinear optics ; Elastostatics ; Elastodynamics
  • Part V. Fluid dynamics. Foundations of fluid dynamics ; Vorticity ; Turbulence ; Waves ; Compressible and supersonic flow ; Convection ; Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Part VI. Plasma physics. The particle kinetics of plasma ; Waves in cold plasmas : two-fluid formalism ; Kinetic theory of warm plasmas ; Nonlinear dynamics of plasmas
  • Part VII. General relativity. From special to general relativity ; Fundamental concepts of general relativity ; Relativistic stars and black holes ; Gravitational waves and experimental tests of general relativity ; Cosmology.