Tous les ebooks de la collection "Fundamental Theories of Physics" - Springer

Teleparallel Gravity

Ruben Aldrovandi , Jose G Pereira

Teleparallel Gravity (TG) is an alternative theory for gravitation, which is equivalent to General Relativity (GR). However, it is conceptually different. For example in GR geometry replaces the concept of force, and the trajectories are determined by geodesics. TG...

The Arrows of Time

Laura Mersini-Houghton , Rudy Vaas

The concept of time has fascinated humanity throughout recorded history, and it remains one of the biggest mysteries in science and philosophy. Time is clearly one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe and thus a deeper understanding of nature at a...

Mass and Motion in General Relativity

Luc Blanchet , Alessandro Spallicci , Bernard Whiting

From the infinitesimal scale of particle physics to the cosmic scale of the universe, research is concerned with the nature of mass. While there have been spectacular advances in physics during the past century, mass still remains a mysterious entity at the forefront of...

Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics

Peter Mittelstaedt

Newton’s classical physics and its underlying ontology are loaded with several metaphysical hypotheses that cannot be justified by rational reasoning nor by experimental evidence. Furthermore, it is well known that some of these hypotheses are not contained in the great...

Space, Time, and Spacetime

Vesselin Petkov

Hyperbolic Triangle Centers

A.A. Ungar

After A. Ungar had introduced vector algebra and Cartesian coordinates into hyperbolic geometry in his earlier books, along with novel applications in Einstein’s special theory of relativity, the purpose of his new book is to introduce hyperbolic barycentric...

Epistemology and Probability

Arkady Plotnitsky

This book offers an exploration of the relationships between epistemology and probability in the work of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schro- ¨ dinger, and in quantum mechanics and in modern physics as a whole. It also considers the implications of these...

Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World

Vesselin Petkov

All physicists would agree that one of the most fundamental problems of the 21st century physics is the dimensionality of the world. In the four-dimensional world of Minkowski (or Minkowski spacetime) the most challenging problem is the nature of the temporal dimension....

Deformed Spacetime

Fabio Cardone , Roberto Mignani

This volume provides a detailed discussion of the mathematical aspects and physical applications of a new geometrical structure of space-time, based on a generalization ("deformation") of the usual Minkowski space, as supposed to be endowed with a metric whose...

Controlled Nucleosynthesis

Stanislav Adamenko , Alwyn Van Der Merwe , Franco Selleri , Alwyn Van Der Merwe

This book ushers in a new era of experimental and theoretical investigations into collective processes, structure formation, and self-organization of nuclear matter. It reports the results of experiments wherein for the first time the nuclei constituting our world...

Factorization Method in Quantum Mechanics

Shi-Hai Dong

This book introduces the factorization method in quantum mechanics at an advanced level, with the aim of putting mathematical and physical concepts and techniques like the factorization method, Lie algebras, matrix elements and quantum control at the reader’s disposal....

Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy

Arkady Plotnitsky

Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy offers a new perspective on Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics as complementarity, and on the relationships between physics and philosophy in Bohr's work, which has had momentous significance for our understanding of...

Introduction to Soliton Theory: Applications to Mechanics

Stefania Donescu , Ligia Munteanu

This monograph is planned to provide the application of the soliton theory to solve certain practical problems selected from the fields of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and biomechanics. The work is based mainly on the authors’ research carried out at their home...

Challenges to The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Vladislav Capek , Daniel P. Sheehan

The advance of scienti?c thought in ways resembles biological and geologic transformation: long periods of gradual change punctuated by episodes of radical upheaval. Twentieth century physics witnessed at least three major shifts — relativity, quantum mechanics and...

Vavilov-Cherenkov and Synchrotron Radiation

G.N. Afanasiev

Classical Electromagnetic Theory

Jack Vanderlinde

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) This book is a second edition of “Classical Electromagnetic Theory” which derived from a set of lecture...