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  • Any education in theoretical physics begins with the laws of classical mechani... Any education in theoretical physics begins with the laws of classical mechanics. The basics of the subject were laid down long ago by Galileo and Newton and are enshrined in the famous equation F=ma that we all learn in school. But there is much... more
  • Any education in theoretical physics begins with the laws of classical mechani... Any education in theoretical physics begins with the laws of classical mechanics. The basics of the subject were laid down long ago by Galileo and Newton and are enshrined in the famous equation F=ma that we all learn in school. But there is much... more
  • Take anything in the universe put it in a box and heat it up. Regardless of wh... Take anything in the universe put it in a box and heat it up. Regardless of what you start with the motion of the substance will be described by the equations of fluid mechanics. This remarkable universality is the reason why fluid mechanics is... more
  • The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness come... The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness comes about because at the most fundamental level the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This is the most spectacularly accurate and powerful theory ever... more
  • Take anything in the universe put it in a box and heat it up. Regardless of wh... Take anything in the universe put it in a box and heat it up. Regardless of what you start with the motion of the substance will be described by the equations of fluid mechanics. This remarkable universality is the reason why fluid mechanics is... more
  • The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness come... The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness comes about because at the most fundamental level the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This is the most spectacularly accurate and powerful theory ever... more
  • There are four forces in our universe. Two act only at the very smallest scale... There are four forces in our universe. Two act only at the very smallest scales and one only at the very biggest. For everything inbetween there is electromagnetism. The theory of electromagnetism is described by four gloriously simple and beautiful... more
  • Any education in theoretical physics begins with the laws of classical mechani... Any education in theoretical physics begins with the laws of classical mechanics. The basics of the subject were laid down long ago by Galileo and Newton and are enshrined in the famous equation F=ma that we all learn in school. But there is much... more
  • There are four forces in our universe. Two act only at the very smallest scale... There are four forces in our universe. Two act only at the very smallest scales and one only at the very biggest. For everything inbetween there is electromagnetism. The theory of electromagnetism is described by four gloriously simple and beautiful... more
  • The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness come... The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness comes about because at the most fundamental level the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This is the most spectacularly accurate and powerful theory ever... more
  • Elementary excitations in solid state physics.- Ideal Bose gas.- Interacting B... Elementary excitations in solid state physics.- Ideal Bose gas.- Interacting Bogoliubov Bose gas.- Superfluid helium Sounds and vortices.- Superfluidity of the two dimensional systems. Berezinskii Kosterlitz Thouless BKT phase transition.- Phonons... more
  • Take anything in the universe put it in a box and heat it up. Regardless of wh... Take anything in the universe put it in a box and heat it up. Regardless of what you start with the motion of the substance will be described by the equations of fluid mechanics. This remarkable universality is the reason why fluid mechanics is... more
  • Introduction.- Foundations of Classical Physics.- Semiclassical -Semi-q-physic... Introduction.- Foundations of Classical Physics.- Semiclassical -Semi-q-physics.- Foundations of q-physics.- Two-state q-system: Qubit Representations.- One-qubit Manipulaitons.- Composite q-system Pure State.- All q-operations.- Classical... more
  • This book covers the theory and applications of the Wigner phase space distrib... This book covers the theory and applications of the Wigner phase space distribution function and its symmetry properties. The book explains why the phase space picture of quantum mechanics is needed in addition to the conventional Schrödinger or... more
  • Based on courses given at the CRM Banff summer school in 1999 this volume prov... Based on courses given at the CRM Banff summer school in 1999 this volume provides a snapshot of topics engaging theoretical physicists is at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty -first. Young physicists will find in... more
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