All ebooks in the collection "Fundamental Theories of Physics" - Springer

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...