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Astronomy, astrophysics and space research have witnessed an explosive development over the last few decades. The new observational potential offered by space stations and the availability of powerful and highly specialized computers have revealed novel aspects of the fascinating realm of galaxies, quasars, stars and planets. The present completely revised 5th edition of The New Cosmos provides ample evidence of these dramatic developments. In a concise presentation, which assumes only a modest prior knowledge of mathematics and physics, the book gives a coherent introduction to the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics. At the same time it takes into account the art of observation and the fundamental ideas behind their interpretation. Like its predecessors, this edition of The New Cosmos will provide new insight and enjoyment not only to students and researchers in the fields of astronomy, physics and earth sciences, but also to a wide range of interested amateurs.

This century has seen the development of technologies for manipulating and controlling matter and light at the level of individual photons and atoms, a realm in which physics is fully quantum mechanical. The dominant experimental technology is the laser, and the theoretical paradigm is quantum optics. The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light is a trilogy, which presents the quantum optics way of thinking and its applications to quantum devices. This book - Foundations of Quantum Optics - provides an introductory text on the theoretical techniques of quantum optics, containing the elements of what one needs to teach, learn, and "think" about quantum optics. There is a particular emphasis on the classical and quantum stochastic methods which have come to dominate the field. Book Ii will cover applications to quantum devices, such as quantum computers and simulators, and will include the more advanced techniques necessary to describe non-classical light fields. Book Iii will cover the field of ultra-cold atoms, for which the quantum-optical paradigm has proved to be highly applicable for quantitative work. For more information, please visit: http://www.icpress.co.uk/quantum-world-of-ultra-cold-atoms-and-light.html

Esta obra en dos volúmenes, de ventaindependiente, ofrece una introduccióna la física basada en cálculo. Es por elloherramienta fundamental para el estudiantede Grados de Ingeniería que requierauna base solida en Fisica.Esta tercera edicion es resultado demas de 25 años de pruebas y revisionescontinuas. Cada capitulo se completacon una seccion de problemasbreves y otra de tareas, finalizando conlas respuestas a los ejercicios propuestosa lo largo del texto.

TEXTO ACTUALIZADO A LOS NUEVOS PLANES DE ESTUDIO, ACTUALIZÁNDOSE EJEMPLOS E INCORPORÁNDOSE NUEVAS SECCIONES.TEXTO MUY CLARO Y RELATIVAMENTE CONCISO PARA PALIAR LA DISMINUCIÓN DE LOS CONOCIMIENTOS DE FISICA DEL ESTUDIANTE.AUTORES CONSOLIDADOS EN EL AREA Y DE RECONOCIDO PRESTIGIO.

William David McComb, W. D. McCombThis book is unique in occupying a gap between standard undergraduate texts and more advanced texts on quantum field theory. It covers a range of renormalization methods with a clear physical interpretation (and motivation), including meanfield theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays, there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular emphasis on the archetypal problem of fluid turbulence. The book is also unique in making this material accessible to readers other than theoretical physicists, as it requires only the basic physics and mathematics which should be known to most scientists, engineers and mathematicians. Normalization of Fourier integrals p. 1 Notation for Chapters 1-4 and 7-10 p. 2 Notation for Chapters 5, 6, and 11 p. 4 What is Renormalization? The bedrock problem: why we need renormalization methods p. 7 Easy applications of Renormalization Group to simple models p. 53 Mean-field theories for simple models p. 71 Renormalized Perturbation Theories Perturbation theory using a control parameter p. 87 Classical nonlinear systems driven by random noise p. 110 Application of renormalized perturbation theories to turbulence and related problems p. 129 Renormalization Group (RG) Setting the scene: critical phenomena p. 147 Real-space Renormalization Group p. 182 Momentum-space Renormalization Group p. 197 Field-theoretic Renormalization Group p. 228 Dynamical Renormalization Group applied to classical nonlinear system p. 260 Appendices Statistical ensembles p. 295 From statistical mechanics to thermodynamics p. 304 Exact solutions in one and two dimensions p. 310 Quantum treatment of the Hamiltonian N-body assembly p. 313 Generalization of the Bogoliubov variational method to a spatially varying magnetic field p. 318 References p. 320 Index p. 323 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell.

Atmósfera, Tiempo Y Clima Richard J. Chorley; Roger Graham Barry Esta nueva edición de Atmósfera, tiempo y clima , mundialmente conocida como la introducción esencial para el estudio de la atmósfera, conserva su popular estructura y sigue siendo la guia general mas completa sobre los procesos meteorologicos mundiales. Incluye numerosas novedades, como la explicacion de las ultimas ideas cientificas de forma clara y no matematica.

Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together, these volumes contained a wealth of information, including photographic plates of the most interesting portions of the Milky Way, descriptive text, charts and data. Only 700 copies were printed, making the original edition a collector's item. Reproduced in print for the first time, this edition combines both volumes of Barnard's Atlas. It directly replicates Barnard's text, and contains high-resolution images of the original photographic plates and charts, reordered so that they can be seen together. It also includes a biography of Barnard and his work, a Foreword and Addendum by Gerald Orin Dobek describing the importance of the Atlas and additions to this volume, and a pull-out section with a mosaic of all 50 plates combined in a single panorama.

El objetivo de este libro es cubrir las enseñanzas de la disciplina de la termodinámica en los alumnos de física, química e ingeniería. El texto está escrito fundamentalmente en unidades SI y contiene abundantes ejemplos resueltos, ejercicios y problemas

Reseña Esta edición conserva los recuadros con breves textos sobre asuntos como energía y tecnología, las ruedas de los trenes, las bandas magnéticas en las tarjetas de crédito y los trenes de levitación magnética. También aparecen recuadros sobre seudociencia, el poder de los cristales, el efecto placebo, búsqueda de mantos de agua con métodos de radiestesia, terapia magnética, ondas electromagnéticas alrededor de líneas de energía eléctrica y la fobia hacia la radiación en los alimentos y hacia cualquier objeto que ostente el adjetivo "nuclear".