This second edition of a popular text demonstrates how physics can be appreciated through a series of case studies spanning a complete university physics course. Highlights include three new chapters on Newton's laws (one on ancient astronomy up to the time of Galileo, one on Galileo, and one on Newton); a new chapter on dimensional methods, chaos and self-organized criticality...(展开全部)

马尔科姆·朗盖尔（Malcolm Longair）教授1941年出生于苏格兰，1967年在剑桥大学卡文迪许（Cavendish）实验室获博士学位。1968—1969年，他作为英国皇家学会的交换访问学者在莫斯科列别捷夫（Lebedev）研究所工作。其后他又六次作为交换学者访问前苏联空间研究所，并在美国多个研究所和天文台担任访问教授。从1980年到1990年，他同时担任苏格兰皇家学会天文学家、爱丁堡（Edinburgh）大学钦定天文学讲座教授和爱丁堡皇家天文台台长。他在1991—1997年期间任卡文迪许实验室副主任，专门负责物理教学工作，并在1997年以后成为卡文迪许实验室主任。朗盖尔教授获得过多项奖项，其中包括在1986年2月获得首届大不列颠学习与丰富生活传播奖。1990年12月，他在电视上作了题为“我们宇宙的起源”的系列讲座，该讲座是皇家科学研究所在...(展开全部)

Review From the reviews of the second edition: "The new edition contains a lot of additional material and new examples, and more emphasis is put on an interactive problem solving. In particular, advantage is taken of many special functions and frequently used operations which are available in Mathematica, in order to demonstrate how Mathematica can be used to replace lengthy ‘b...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a de...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a ...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a ...(展开全部)

Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rather than following the standard axiomatic approach, this book adopts a historical perspective, explaining clearl...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a de...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a ...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a ...(展开全部)