MU Libraries New Books: Physics

About the new book list

5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Computational methods for physicists : compendium for students / Simon Širca, Martin Horvat. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: QC21.3 .S57 2012

How to teach relativity to your dog / Chad Orzel. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: QC173.57 .O79 2012

Spectral theory and quantum mechanics : with an introduction to the algebraic formulation / Valter Moretti [translated by Simon G. Chiossi]. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: QC20.7.S64 M67 2013

Spectral theory and its applications / Bernard Helffer, Université Paris-Sud. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: QC20.7.S64 H45 2013

The collected papers of Albert Einstein / Anna Beck, translator Peter Havas, consultant. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Review

The volume is attractive, the editing perceptive and informative without being intrusive; the translation, an entirely appropriate and insightful compromise between the literary and the literal. (International Journal of Theoretical Physics ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Call #: QC16.E5 A2 1987b

The Oxford handbook of sound studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Review

"The wealth of audiovisual examples in these links and the breadth of the topics covered make this handbook a valuable scholarly reference and teaching resource. Bibliographies and notes at the end of each essay and the comprehensive index increase the book's usefulness as a reference tool...Essential." --Choice

"Discusses persuasively a breadth of sounds--birdsong to underwater music to television advertising--current-day digital practices for sound in video games, movies, iPods, and computers, and challenges readers (and researchers) to rethink the way they hear and understand the world." --Leonardo

Call #: QC225.15 .O93 2012

100 years of superconductivity / edited by Horst Rogalla and Peter H. Kes. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Review

the book is a retrospective chronicling 100 years of serendipitous discoveries and intellectual triumphs—and technological breakthroughs that Onnes could not have imagined in 1911. … From start to finish, the book includes historical vignettes, provides a comprehensive introduction to the science and technology behind a wide range of applications, and presents authoritative and often personal accounts of specialists in the field. The insights and anecdotes captured in 100 Years of Superconductivity will be a delight to those engaged in the field and a significant resource to historians.
—Richard Kautz, Physics Today, July 2012

Call #: QC611.96 .A16 2012

Earthmasters : the dawn of the age of climate engineering / Clive Hamilton. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Call #: QC928 .H36 2013

A cultural history of physics / Károly Simonyi translated by David Kramer. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: QC7 .S55313 2012

A short history of physics in the American century / David C. Cassidy. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Review

David Cassidy tells a big story in a short book written for anyone interested in the place of science in American society. American physics began to stir at the end of the 19th century and rose to world hegemony by the beginning of World War II. The creation of the atomic bomb, the Cold War, and the consequent lavish support for physics meant that American dominance endured until the last decades of the 20th century. Cassidy stresses the perennial opposition between pure and applied physics, the gigantizing of science dependent on the federal purse, the transition from powerful science administrators to functionaries, globalization, and the relative marginalization of women. His conclusion on the rise of solid-state physics, computing, and the Internet brings this dramatic story to a dramatic close.
--J. L. Heilbron, author of Galileo

The real history of America in the twentieth century was shaped by the obscure struggles of physicists: from the electrification of the nation, to the nuclear standoff of the Cold War, to the information revolution, the lives of Americans have been affected in fundamental ways by the achievements of the physics community. Cassidy tells this essential story with brevity and style, filling a major gap in modern historiography.
--Spencer Weart, AIP Center for History of Physics

This is a must read for physics students and indeed anyone who wants to understand the development of the American physics enterprise and the interlocking roles of universities, private laboratories, and the federal government.
--A. Spero (Choice 20120401)

A Short History of Physics in the American Century by David Cassidy presents a brisk but excellent institutional and political history of the discipline, ornamented by lucid descriptions of physics concepts and discoveries...[It] deserves a wide audience, including physicists curious about their discipline's prominent role in modern U.S. history...A snappy and enjoyable read.
--Benjamin Wilson (Physics Today 20120501)

Call #: QC9.U5 C36 2011

Introduction to the quantum theory of scattering / [by] Leonard S. Rodberg [and] R. M. Thaler. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: QC174.2 .R6 1967

Photo and thermoelectric effects in semiconductors / translated by Margaret Laner. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: QC612.S4 I58 2

The Demography of adaptation to climate change / George Martine and Daniel Schensul, editors coordination, José Miguel Guzmán. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: QC903 .D46 2013

The practical Einstein : experiments, patents, inventions / József Illy. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: QC16.E5 I45 2012

Dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts and inner magnetosphere / Danny Summers ... [et al.], editors. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: QC809.M35 D96 2012

Equations in mathematical physics : a practical course / Victor P. Pikulin, Stanislav I. Pohozaev translated by Andrei Iacob. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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From the Back Cover

Many physical processes in fields such as mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism or optics are described by means of partial differential equations. The aim of the present book is to demonstrate the basic methods for solving the classical linear problems in mathematical physics of elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic type. In particular, the methods of conformal mappings, Fourier analysis and Green`s functions are considered, as well as the perturbation method and integral transformation method, among others. Every chapter contains concrete examples with a detailed analysis of their solution. The book is intended as a textbook for students in mathematical physics, but will also serve as a handbook for scientists and engineers. ------------ [A] manual for future engineers must strongly differ from the textbook for pure mathematicians, and the book by Pikulin and Pohozaev is the good example. (…) The purpose (…) is to offer quick access to the principal facts (…) This well written book is a reader-friendly and good-organized textbook in the field of PDE. It can be highly recommended for students of technology universities and institutes as well as for engineers. (Zentralblatt MATH) Each chapter contains concrete examples with a detailed analysis of their solution and ends with problems for independent study and answers to them. (EMS Newsletter)

Call #: QC20.7.D5 P5513 2011

Lagrangian modeling of the atmosphere / John Lin ... [et al.], editors. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: QC874.3 .L34 2012

Storms of my grandchildren : the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity / James Hansen illustrations by Makiko Sato. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, lays all the cards on the table in this thorough, detailed analysis of the history, science and politics of climate change, a Silent Spring-style warning cry that predicts "a rough ride" for our grandchildren. Using numerous charts and graphs alongside accessible explanations, Hansen presents copious climate data for a broad audience. After discussing the recent history of global warming science, from the Climate Task Force of 2000 to his up-to-the-minute carbon dioxide limit of 350ppm, Hansen provides recommendations for achieving greenhouse gas reduction, as well as strategies for reducing or eliminating fossil fuel use: "For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we cannot allow our government to continue to connive with the coal industry in subterfuges that allow dirty-coal use to continue." The most significant step, he says, would be creating a cost structure that escalates cost as carbon emissions increase. With of-the-moment discussion of topics such as climate vs. weather (addressing in particular the cool U.S. summer of 2009), cap-and-trade vs. fee-and-dividend, and climate change politics as well as activism, this is certain to be as controversial as it is informative. Hansen's message is stirring as well as urgent, and should be required reading for anyone involved in public policy.

Call #: QC981.8.G56 H365 2009

Nonlinear dispersive waves : asymptotic analysis and solitons / Mark J. Ablowitz. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: QC174.26.W28 A264 2011

Interactions between Pacific sea-surface temperatures and the Northern Hemisphere circumpolar vortex / by Oliver W. Frauenfeld, Robert E. Davis. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: QC981 .P82 v.65, no. 1