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Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colors of Light

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic aberration in the traditional refracting telescope, and so impressed the Royal Society that they encouraged him to publish his work. «Opticks» was Newton's second major contribution in this field, and offered new insights into the nature of color, light, and the phenomena of diffraction. The book also includes Newton's Queries, which address a wide range of physical phenomena, include the nature and transmission of heat, the possible cause of gravity, electrical phenomena, chemical action, and ethics of both science and human conduct.

Рассуждения об основах физики

Анатолий Николаевич Овчинников

Книга посвящена критике иллюзорных физических теорий: теории относительности и теории расширения Вселенной. Показано, что эти теории отрицательно влияют на образование и мировоззрение современного человека. В книге критикуются идеалистические взгляды на основания физики, астрономии, математики. Часть книги посвящена проблемам измерения времени, другая её часть – анализу негативного влияния теорий относительности и расширения Вселенной на основные понятия физики: длину, время, массу, пространство и геометрию, абсолютное и относительное. Книга полезна не только физикам, астрономам, математикам, но и любому человеку, который намерен заниматься наукой.

The Art and Science of Staff Fighting

Joe Varady

NINE LEVELS, EASY TO EXPERT This book stands apart from other staff training manuals. While most titles focus on forms and twirling, The Art and Science of Staff Fighting emphasizes the dynamics of combat. The author draws on thirty years of martial experience, presenting the best of both Eastern and Western traditions. Joe Varady lays out a comprehensive course of study in nine levels, from beginner to expert. He guides readers through such fundamentals as stances, striking, blocking, and footwork. In advanced lessons, readers learn disarming techniques, groundwork, and facing multiple opponents. But this book is not just for staff enthusiasts. Even those unfamiliar with martial arts can adapt these techniques, increasing their skill and confidence in defending themselves. "Our environment is usually full of improvised weapons,” Varady writes. “Staff fighting techniques can be effectively applied in a self-defense situation using a walking stick, coatrack, curtain rod, floor lamp, hockey stick, fallen tree branch, broom, mop, shovel, or rake.” Equipped with this knowledge, readers will begin to realize that, in one way or another, they are nearly always armed and capable of defending themselves. This book features: Nine levels of instruction, progressing from easy to expert Over 600 photos with motion arrows A “nondenominational” approach to staff, utilizing the best of Eastern and Western arts A comprehensive, methodical approach to building staff skills If you are already a student of the staff, these lessons will not conflict with your katas or current style. Instead, they will augment your techniques, broadening your options. Whether you are an experienced staff fighter or a layman seeking practical techniques for self-defense, The Art and Science of Staff Fighting will help you develop the skills you need.

Fight Like a Physicist

Jason Thalken

An in-depth look into the physics behind martial arts. Whether you are an experienced martial artist or a curious enthusiast, this book gives you an “unfair advantage” by unraveling the complex science of effective fighting techniques and examining the core principles that make them work. Did you know? Momentum is for knocking people over Energy is for breaking bones and causing pain A haymaker travels 3.14159 times farther than a jab You are only an “object” when you are rigid Fight Like a Physicist blends inquiry, skepticism, and irreverent humor—all while punching holes in myth and mysticism. Highlights include Making physics your “unfair advantage,” in the ring and on the street Examining center of mass, pi, levers, wedges, angular momentum, and linear momentum for martial artists Reducing traumatic brain injury in contact sports Exposing the illusion of safety provided by gloves and helmets Overturning conventional wisdom on compliance during an assault Busting up Hollywood action clichés Fight Like a Physicist reads like a manifesto on the rational practice of martial arts. It’s intelligent, fun, and dangerous—and nothing short of iconoclastic.

Lattice Boltzmann and Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers

Yan Wang

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been widely applied in a wide variety of industrial applications, including aeronautics, astronautics, energy, chemical, pharmaceuticals, power and petroleum.This unique compendium documents the recent developments in CFD based on kinetic theories, introducing flux reconstruction strategies of kinetic methods for the simulation of complex incompressible and compressible flows, namely the lattice Boltzmann and the gas kinetic flux solvers (LBFS or GKFS). LBFS and GKFS combine advantages of both Navier-Stokes (N-S) solvers and kinetic solvers.Detailed derivations, evaluations and applications of LBFS and GKFS, and their advantages over conventional flux reconstruction strategies are analyzed and discussed in the volume.The must-have reference text is useful for scholars, researchers, professionals and students who are keen in CFD methods and numerical simulations.Contents: <ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Kinetic Equations</li><li>Lattice Boltzmann Flux Solver for Isothermal and Thermal Flows</li><li>Multiphase Lattice Boltzmann Flux Solver for Two-Phase Flows</li><li>Maxwellian Function-Based Gas Kinetic Flux Solver</li><li>Simplified Distribution Function-Based Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers</li><li>Discrete Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers</li><li>Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers for Incompressible Flows</li></ul> Readership: Professionals, academics, researchers, and graduate students in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, engineering mechanics and mathematical physics. Finite Volume Method;Navier-Stokes Equations;Lattice Boltzmann Method;Gas Kinetic Scheme;Latice Boltzmann Flux Solver;Gas Kinetic Flux Solver00

Roman Jackiw

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Professor Roman Jackiw is a theoretical physicist renowned for his many fundamental contributions and discoveries in quantum and classical field theories, ranging from high energy physics and gravitation to condensed matter and the physics of fluids. Among his major achievements is the establishment of the presence of the famous Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomalies in quantum field theory, a discovery with far-reaching implications for the structure of the Standard Model of particle physics and all attempts to go beyond it. Other important contributions, among many, that one may mention here are the topological mass term in gravity and gauge theories, and the fractionalization of fermion number and charge in the presence of topological objects.Roman Jackiw, a Professor Emeritus at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, is the recipient of several international awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and the Dirac Medal of the ICTP. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and honorary doctor of Kiev, Montreal, Tours, Turin and Uppsala universities.To celebrate his 80th birthday, many students and colleagues of Professor Jackiw have come together to share interesting anecdotes of working with him as well as their latest research, some of it inspired by his work. Edited by his former students Antti Niemi and Terry Tomboulis together with his long-time friend KK Phua, this festschrift volume is a must-have collection for all theoretical physicists.Contents: <ul><li>Personal Recollections:<ul><li>Recent Path Crossings with Roman and Anomalies (Stephen L Adler)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and the Family Structure (Luis Álvarez-Gaumè)</li><li>Romaniana: A Student's Appreciation of Roman Jackiw, on His 80th Birthday (Michael Bos)</li><li>Electron Fractionalization in Celebration of Roman Jackiw's 80th Birthday (Claudio Chamon)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and Our Physics in Common (John Mike Cornwall)</li><li>Fun in 2+1 (Stanley Deser)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and Gauge Field Theory: Reminiscences of MIT Postdoc Days (Nicholas Manton)</li><li>Recollections of a Most Fruitful and Enjoyable Collaboration: Looking Back at My Work with Roman Jackiw (Claudio Rebbi)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and My MIT Days (Paolo Rossi)</li><li>Roman Jackiw: A Beacon in a Golden Period of Theoretical Physics (Luc Vinet)</li><li>Roman Jackiw (Steven Weinberg)</li><li>Tribute to a Mentor (L C Rohana Wijewardhana)</li></ul></li><li>Scientific Contributions:<ul><li>Entanglement in Fermionic Chains and Bispectrality (Nicolas Crampé, Rafael I Nepomechie and Luc Vinet)</li><li>Gravitational Wilson Lines in AdS₃ (Eric D'Hoker and Per Kraus)</li><li>Bions and Instantons in Triple-Well and Multi-Well Potentials (Gerald V Dunne, Tin Sulejmanpasic and Mithat Ünsal)</li><li>On the Sudakov Form Factor, and a Factor of Two (Stefano Forte)</li><li>Emerging Majorana Modes in Junctions of One-Dimensional Spin Systems (Domenico Giuliano, Andrea Trombettoni and Pasquale Sodano)</li><li>Anomalies and Bose Symmetry (Daniel Kabat)</li><li>Sasakians and the Geometry of a Mass Term (V Parameswaran Nair)</li><li>Celestial Operator Products of Gluons and Gravitons (Monica Patez, Ana-Maria Raclariu, Andrew Strominger and Ellis Ye Yuan)</li><li>How to Split the Electron in Half (Gordon W Semenoff)</li><li>Anomalies and Topologies in Quantum Field Theories (Gerard 't Hooft)</li><li>Superinsulators, a Toy Realization of QCD in Condensed Matter (Maria Cristina Diamantini and Carlo A Trugenberger)</li><li>Three Easy Pieces (in Tribute to Roman Jackiw) (Frank Wilczek)</li><li>A Note on Boundary Conditions in Euclidean Gravity (Edward Witten)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Physics students and theoretical physicists.Theoretical Physics;Quantum Field Theory;High Energy Physics;Gravitation;Condensed Matter Physics;Fluid Dynamics;Adler–Bell–Jackiw Anomalies;Standard Model of Particle Physics;Topological Mass Term;Fractionalization of Fermion Number and Charge0Key Features:<ul><li>Dedicated to Roman Jackiw, a well-known theoretical physicist</li><li>Prominent contributors including Nobel laureates</li><li>Includes interesting anecdotes of famous physicists</li></ul>

One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe

William Carpenter

First published in 1895, this volume contains a series of arguments against the idea that the world is round. The belief that the Earth is flat and not a globe existed in many ancient civilisations, but we now know that this is not true. However, even today there are those who believe in a flat earth, just as there was when ideas of a spherical earth were relatively new. Within this book, the author explains why these new ideas of the planet as a globe are absurd, with interesting examples and explanations as to precisely why. Highly recommended for those with an interest in Flat Earth theory and the history of astronomy. Contents include: “Ships 'Going Down!'”, “How Much Loner Will it Be?”, “Absurd Theory!”, “No Proof to be Had”, “When the Man Has Time!”, “Earth A Globe”, “The Scientific Wager of 1870”, “Our Opponents Ways and Means”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book today in an affordable, modern edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Let There Be Light!

Robert S. Dutch

Have you ever wondered what it is like to work on a nuclear power plant? Robert Dutch worked in the UK's nuclear industry for many years as a scientist and then as a tutor at a nuclear training center. He also holds degrees in theology. Drawing upon his qualifications and experience Robert addresses the controversial issue of nuclear power from a Christian perspective. In contrast to a negative nuclear narrative often portrayed, he presents a positive nuclear narrative alongside other ways of generating electricity. Be prepared to be challenged to think seriously about nuclear's merits in providing clean, low-carbon electricity.

Creating Materials with a Desired Refraction Coefficient (Second Edition)

Alexander G. Ramm

In Ramm’s second edition on refraction coefficient the author shares his recipe for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient and solves the many-body wave scattering problem for many small impedance bodies. Technical problems are described which, when solved, make this theory practically applicable. It also provides physical and mathematical arguments for the possibility to produce such particles. Inverse scattering with non-over-determined scattering data is discussed. Revised and expanded, this new edition includes three new chapters: the discussion of technological problems to be solved for immediate applicability for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient; symmetry properties of the solutions to the Helmholtz equation and new results on symmetry properties in harmonic analysis; and theorems in inverse scattering. Key Features   Presents a method for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient Includes a process for creating wave-focusing materials Highlights inverse problems of finding the potential from the non-over-determined scattering data Provides an overview of symmetry properties in scattering theory

Fractional Quantum Hall Effects

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The fractional quantum Hall effect has been one of the most active areas of research in quantum condensed matter physics for nearly four decades, serving as a paradigm for unexpected and exotic emergent behavior arising from interactions. This book, featuring a collection of articles written by experts and a Foreword by Klaus von Klitzing, the discoverer of quantum Hall effect and winner of 1985 Nobel Prize in physics, aims to provide a coherent account of the exciting new developments and the current status of the field.Contents: <ul><li>Foreword (K von Klitzing)</li><li>Preface (B I Halperin and J K Jain)</li><li>Thirty Years of Composite Fermions and Beyond (J K Jain)</li><li>The Half-Full Landau Level (B I Halperin)</li><li>Probing Composite Fermions Near Half-Filled Landau Levels (M Shayegan)</li><li>Edge Probes of Topological Order (M Heiblum and D E Feldman)</li><li>Exploring Quantum Hall Physics at Ultra-Low Temperatures and at High Pressures (G A Csáthy)</li><li>Correlated Phases in ZnO-Based Heterostructures (J Falson and J H Smet)</li><li>Fractional Quantum Hall Effects in Graphene (C Dean, P Kim, J I A Li and A Young)</li><li>Wavefunctionology: The Special Structure of Certain Fractional Quantum Hall Wavefunctions (S H Simon)</li><li>Engineering Non-Abelian Quasi-Particles in Fractional Quantum Hall States — A Pedagogical Introduction (A Stern)</li><li>Fractional Quantum Hall States of Bosons: Properties and Prospects for Experimental Realization (N R Cooper)</li><li>Index</li></ul> Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in the current status of the field that has seen significant progress in the last 10 years.Berry Phase;Fermi Sea;Phase Tranistions;Particle Hole Symmetry;FQHE0Key Features:<ul><li>Useful for researchers as well as for newcomers and interested readers who wish to educate themselves on the current status of the field</li><li>Essential aspects of each chapter can be comprehended by any graduate student</li><li>First book to be published in this field in last ten years</li></ul>