In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical …
This book covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, the principles of canonical mechanics and rigid body mechanics …
This third edition closely follows the fifth German edition. In particular, it now contains an enlarged presentation of the "tippe …
This new edition of Classical Mechanics, aimed at undergraduate physics and engineering students, presents in a user-friendly style an authoritative …
This new edition of Classical Mechanics, aimed at undergraduate physics and engineering students, presents ina user-friendly style an authoritative approach …
More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This …
Historians of mathematics have devoted considerable attention to Isaac Newton's work on algebra, series, fluxions, quadratures, and geometry. In Isaac …
This book has resulted from a course in the general theory of relativity at the University of Oslo where the …
Originally published in Italian as Sulle spalle dei giganti : lezioni alla Milanesiana, 2001–2015. On the Shoulders of Giants collects …
Drawing on observations from Chandra, Newton, and previous X- ray observatories, the author provides an accessible introduction to the history, …
Carl Sagan once noted that there is only one generation that gets to see things for the first time. We …
The internationally renowned physicist Harald Fritzsch deftly explains the meaning and far-flung implications of the general theory of relativity and …