Dover Books on Physics
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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry
$19.95 Read moreWhen this classic text was first published in 1935, it fulfilled the goal of its authors to produce a textbook of practical quantum mechanics for the chemist, the experimental physicist, and the begin
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Pauling, Linus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486648710
- Language: English
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The Direction of Time
$16.95 Read moreEver a source of philosophical conjecture and debate, the concept of time represents the beating heart of physics. This final work by the distinguished physicist Hans Reichenbach represents the culmin
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Reichenbach, Hans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0486409260
- Language: English
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Theoretical Physics
$50.00 Read moreAmong the finest, most comprehensive treatments of theoretical physics ever written, this classic volume comprises a superb introduction to the main branches of the discipline and offers solid groundi
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Joos, Georg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0486652270
- Language: English
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Thermodynamics
$16.99 Read moreIndisputably, this is a modern classic of science. Based on a course of lectures delivered by the author at Columbia University, the text is elementary in treatment and remarkable for its clarity and … [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Fermi, Enrico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1956
- ISBN10: 048660361X
- Language: English
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Physics and Music: The Science of Musical Sound
$27.00 Add to cartThis foundational text is written for students who want to go beyond the perceptual stage of music to learn how musical sound is created and perceived. It surveys a wide range of topics related to aco… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: White, Harvey E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0486779343
- Language: English
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Introduction to Modern Optics
$22.95 Read moreThis incisive text provides a basic undergraduate-level course in modern optics for students in physics, technology and engineering. The first half of the book deals with classical physical optics; th
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Fowles, Grant R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486659577
- Language: English
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Quantum Field Theory
$39.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive text begins with the standard quantization of electrodynamics and perturbative renormalization, advancing to functional methods, relativistic bound states, broken symmetries, nonabe… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Itzykson, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: February 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0486445682
- Language: English
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Statistical Thermodynamics
$9.95 Add to cartNobel laureate’s brilliant attempt to develop a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics – classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Schrodinger, Erwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486661016
- Language: English
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States of Matter
$28.95 Add to cartThis unique overview by a prominent CalTech physicist provides a modern, rigorous, and integrated treatment of the key physical principles and techniques related to gases, liquids, solids, and their p… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Goodstein, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 20 2014
- ISBN10: 048664927X
- Language: English
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Science and Information Theory
$19.95 Add to cartGeared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this classic resource by a giant of 20th-century mathematics applies principles of information theory to Maxwell’s demon, thermodynamics… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Brillouin, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0486497550
- Language: English
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Sources of Quantum Mechanics
$19.95 Add to cartMax Planck’s famous lecture of 1900 expressed quantum theory in its essential form, but his statement was just the beginning. This volume features seventeen early papers that developed quantum theory … [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Van Der Waerden, B. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2007
- ISBN10: 048645892X
- Language: English
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Gauge Theory and Variational Principles
$12.95 Add to cartDetailed and self-contained, this text supplements its rigor with intuitive ideas and is geared toward beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Topics include principal fiber bundles a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Bleecker, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445461
- Language: English
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Introduction to Light
$14.95 Add to cartDesigned for a nonmathematical undergraduate optics course addressed to art majors, this four-part treatment discusses the nature and manipulation of light, vision, and color. 170 black-and-white illu… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Waldman, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2002
- ISBN10: 048642118X
- Language: English
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The Variational Principles of Mechanics
$30.00 Read moreAnalytical mechanics is, of course, a topic of perennial interest and usefulness in physics and engineering, a discipline that boasts not only many practical applications, but much inherent mathematic
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Lanczos, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0486650677
- Language: English
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An Introduction to Theory and Applications of Quantum Mechanics
$19.95 Add to cartBased on a Cal Tech introductory course for advanced undergraduates in applied physics, this text explores a wide range of topics culminating in semiconductor transistors and lasers. 1982 edition.
Auth… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Yariv, Amnon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: May 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0486499863
- Language: English
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Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua
$37.95 Add to cartThis two-part text supplies a lucid, self-contained account of classical mechanics and provides a natural framework for introducing advanced mathematical concepts in physics. Topics include Lagrangian… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Walecka, John Dirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432610
- Language: English
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Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals
$35.00 Read moreFrom astrophysics to condensed matter theory, nearly all of modern physics employs the path integral technique. In this presentation, the developer of path integrals and one of the best-known scientis… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0486477223
- Language: English
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Physics of Waves
$35.00 Read moreBecause of the increasing demands and complexity of undergraduate physics courses (atomic, quantum, solid state, nuclear, etc.), it is often impossible to devote separate courses to the classic wave p
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Elmore, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01, 1985
- ISBN10: 0486649261
- Language: English
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Quantum Mechanics
$69.95 Read more“Strongly recommended” by the American Journal of Physics, this volume serves as a text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics as well as a reference for professionals. Clear in… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Messiah, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: February 17 2014
- ISBN10: 048678455X
- Language: English
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Physics of Electric Propulsion
$22.95 Add to cartGeared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this text systematically develops the concepts of electrical acceleration of gases for propulsion. Starting with primary physical principle… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Jahn, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0486450406
- Language: English
