Modern classical physics : optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics /
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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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.