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1891036016Boston: Houghton Mifflin And Company 1891. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . Figures In Text. 243 Pp. Ad At Rear. Second Edition Copyright 1890 Preface Dated 1890 Title Page Dated 1891 So Apparently A Later Printing Of The Second Edition. Revised. Light Wear A Few Points Of Fraying Gilt Bright Spine Cloth With Some Fading. Yellow Bookplate Illustrated In Black Of The Theosophical University Library At Point Loma With Their Stamp On The First Page No Other Marks; Small Erasure At Foot Of Spine Probably An Erased Call Number. <br/> <br/> Houghton, Mifflin And Company hardcover
1977056392Taylor & Francis / Halsted Press 1977. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. V 281 Pp. High Quality Medium Size Soft Cover. First Printing Of Second Edition 1977 With S. I. Units. Very Near Fine No Marks But Spine Leaned. <br/> <br/> Taylor & Francis / Halsted Press paperback
1999059923Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co Inc 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Xxi 125 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. First And Only Printing Hardcover Issiue. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Text Evolved From Lectures To An Honors Course For Undergraduates. Fine. Mendel Sachs 1927 -2012 Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force Strong Force Electromagnetism And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California Los Angeles He Then Moved To Columbia University New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.5 Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University 1962-1966. In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics In Trieste Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. <br/> <br/> World Scientific Publishing Co Inc hardcover
1999043092Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co Inc 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xxi 125 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. First And Only Printing Hardcover Issiue. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Text Evolved From Lectures To An Honors Course For Undergraduates. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket; Inscribed By Sachs And Dated March 18 1999. Mendel Sachs 1927 -2012 Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force Strong Force Electromagnetism And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California Los Angeles He Then Moved To Columbia University New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.5 Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University 1962-1966. In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics In Trieste Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. <br/> <br/> World Scientific Publishing Co Inc hardcover
1998PH-46North-Holland/ Elsevier Science 1998. Comprehensive interdisciplinary journal of research on excited state processes in condensed matter includes topics on: dynamics in photosynthetic systems and pigment-protein complexes quantum optics electron-photon interaction phonon dynamics ultrafast spectroscopy quantum electronics and quantum wells etc. 694 pp. Illustrated. Heavy Items. Volume 76 & Volume 77. Soft Cover. Very Good/ . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. North-Holland/ Elsevier Science Paperback
2003023889Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003. First Edition First Printing . Red Cloth. Fine/Fine Dustjacket. 148 Pp. Hardcover First Printing. Fine Book Fine Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover
1951032080Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit Te Leiden 1951. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 24 Pp In Grey Wrappers Printed In Black With Stellingen Thesis Laid In Loosely. Meijers' Doctoral Advisor Was H. A. Kramers. Some Browning Along Spine Edge No Marks Or Damage. <br/> <br/> Rijksuniversiteit Te Leiden paperback
198030589Dordrecht Holland:: D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1980. Hardcover. 9027707219 . Volume 1 only. Covers/contents exceptionally clean bright unmarked. No DJ. ; . D. Reidel Publishing Company, hardcover
2000034820Cambridge / London: The MIT Press 2000. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Xxi 135 Pp. Blue Cloth Silver Gilt. Second Printing. Inscribed By The Author To A Caltech Professor Jerry Solomon: " To Jerry With High Hopes For A Deeper Understanding Of The Laws Of Nature C A Mead". As New In As New Dj. Per Wikipedia Carver Andress Mead Born 1934 Is An American Scientist And Engineer. He Currently Holds The Position Of Gordon And Betty Moore Professor Emeritus Of Engineering And Applied Science At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech Having Taught There For Over 40 Years. He Taught Deborah Chung The First Female Engineering Graduate Of Caltech. He Advised The First Female Electrical Engineering Student At Caltech Louise Kirkbride. His Contributions As A Teacher Include The Classic Textbook Introduction To Vlsi Systems 1980 Which He Coauthored With Lynn Conway. A Pioneer Of Modern Microelectronics He Has Made Contributions To The Development And Design Of Semiconductors Digital Chips And Silicon Compilers Technologies Which Form The Foundations Of Modern Very-Large-Scale Integration Chip Design. In The 1980S He Focused On Electronic Modelling Of Human Neurology And Biology Creating "Neuromorphic Electronic Systems."567 Mead Has Been Involved In The Founding Of More Than 20 Companies.8 Most Recently He Has Called For The Reconceptualization Of Modern Physics Revisiting The Theoretical Debates Of Niels Bohr Albert Einstein And Others In Light Of Later Experiments And Developments In Instrumentation. Carver Mead Has Developed An Approach He Calls Collective Electrodynamics In Which Electromagnetic Effects Including Quantized Energy Transfer Are Derived From The Interactions Of The Wavefunctions Of Electrons Behaving Collectively.68 In This Formulation The Photon Is A Non-Entity And Planck's Energy-Frequency Relationship Comes From The Interactions Of Electron Eigenstates. The Approach Is Related To John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics To The Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory Of Electrodynamics And To Gilbert N. Lewis's Early Description Of Electromagnetic Energy Exchange At Zero IntervalClarification Needed In Spacetime. Although This Reconceptualization Does Not Pertain To Gravitation A Gravitational Extension Of It Makes Predictions That Differ From General Relativity. For Instance Gravitational Waves Should Have A Different Polarization Under "G4v" The Name Given To This New Theory Of Gravity. Moreover This Difference In Polarization Can Be Detected By Advanced Ligo. <br/> <br/> The MIT Press hardcover
1939033842Cambridge: University Press 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Xi 355 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Clean And Unfaded Cloth All Gilt Bright And Complete Covers Clean And Unfaded Fraying At Ends Of Spine At Tips And In A Line About 2 1/2" Long Along Center Of Front Spine Edge But Hinges Tight. Ownership Signature Of A Physicist S. J. Klapman. <br/> <br/> University Press hardcover
1947006761London: Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press 1947. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the rear endpaper. Previous owner's small ink name on the front endpaper. Hinges inner and outer are perfectly sound. Text pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original blue cloth. Spine color has sun-faded a shade or two but gold lettering on the spine remains bright and shiny. From the author's preface: "The purpose of this book is to give the theory of Mathieu functions and to demonstrate its application to representative problems in physics and engineering science. It has been written for the technologist and is not addressed in any sense to the pure mathematician." The author then goes on to request that any criticism from mathematicians concerning the methods of technologists "should be entirely of a constructive and helpful nature." Sounds like a sensitive subject!. Bibliography. Index. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. xii 401pp. Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press Hardcover
1970145466North-Holland Publishing Co. 1970. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Book is in excellent condition in every respect; ex-institutional library with a couple of stamps mark on the spine glue from pocket at inside back cover; otherwise absolutely clean of marking of any kind no signs of wear in red cloth with gilt at spine. 442 pages contents include: Classical theory of elastic scattering Models of inelastic and rearrangement processes Impact parameter methods for electronic transitions Quantum theory of scattering by a potential Formal theory of scattering Excitation and ionization Electron capture. Full of formulae graphs charts tables. Keywords: Elastic Scattering Models Inelastic Rearrangement Processes Impact Parameter Methods Electronic Transitions Quantum Theory Potential Formal Excitation Ionization Electron Capture North-Holland Publishing Co. hardcover
1984PH-383Dordrecht Holland: D.Reidel 1984. Comprehensive text presents a detailed study of the the interrelationship between probabilistics and probabilistic physics. Includes coverage of consistent theories of kinetics of physical transformations decay processes and intramolecular rearrangements; statistical physics; quantum mechanics; EPR Bell and Bohm paradoxes; electromagnetic field and photons; methodological problems; etc. 373 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper; small stamp to lower title page; small numerals to lower spine; clean pocket remnant on rear endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Professional Library. D.Reidel Hardcover
199517659Cranbury NJ: Lehigh University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1995. 1st Thus. Hardcover. DJ shows wear short tear top forecorner top forecorners lightly bumped.; A bright solid book dustjacket in Mylar unclipped.; 9.30 X 6.40 X 1.50 inches; 550 pages; "This is the final volume in the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's work in gas theory molecules and thermodynamics. The papers reveal the development of his ideas and the uniqueness of his interpretation of mechanics the necessity of a statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics and his understanding of the dynamics of rare gases." . 0934223343 . Lehigh University Press hardcover
186743456London Taylor and Francis 1867. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Vol. 157 - Part I. Titlepage to volume 155 and pp. 49-88. Titlepage with minor light browning at corners. Internally clean. A small stamp on verso of titlepage. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this seminal paper in its full version from "Transactions" representing the announcement of Maxwell's final "Theory of Gases" and introduces the "Maxwell Distribution" in its final form a statistical means of describing aspects of the kinetic theory of gases a theory together with his electromagnetic theory are considered to be SOME OF THE GREATEST ADVANCES IN PHYSICS OF ALL TIMES. Everett considers this paper 1868 to be Maxwell's greatest single paper. Maxwell's discoveries laid the foundations of special relativity and quantum mechanics.One of Maxwell's major investigations was on the kinetic theory of gases. Originating with Daniel Bernoulli this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath John James Waterston James Joule and particularly Rudolf Clausius to such an extent as to put its general accuracy beyond a doubt; but it received enormous development from Maxwell who in this field appeared as an experimenter on the laws of gaseous friction as well as a mathematician.In 1866 he formulated statistically independently of Ludwig Boltzmann the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases. His formula called the Maxwell distribution gives the fraction of gas molecules moving at a specified velocity at any given temperature. In the kinetic theory temperatures and heat involve only molecular movement. This approach generalized the previously established laws of thermodynamics and explained existing observations and experiments in a better way than had been achieved previously. Maxwell's work on thermodynamics led him to devise the Gedankenexperiment thought experiment that came to be known as Maxwell's demon. </em> unknown
1908052784London: Longmans Green And Co 1908. Reprint . Hardcover. Good. A Few Illustrations In Text. Xiv 348 Pp. Brown Cloth. "Text-Books Of Science" Series 1908 Date On Title Page. Good: Light Wear Points Of Fraying At Tips Front Spine Edge; Hinges Tight; Gilt Brilliant; Inked Owner's Information Dated 1917 <br/> <br/> Longmans, Green, And Co hardcover
2012HG42501270003Princeton University Press 2012. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. 6x0x9. Excellent hardcover copy. Clean solid copy with unmarked text. Jacket has minimal wear. Binding is tight and square. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation. Princeton University Press hardcover
1987141057London: Plenum Press 1987. Ex-Library. Sticker to spine inside cover and FEP. Stamp to FEP title page and page block. text is clean tight and bright. hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Ex-Library. Plenum Press Hardcover
200649745Privately Issued. Very Good. 2006. Paperback. Privately Issued paperback
1971032935Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xvi 671 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing Of Second Edition 1971. Very Good Rubbing At Corners But All Gilt Still Brilliant Hinges Tight Light Wear To Cloth A Couple Of Pages With Former Dents From A Paper Clip. One-Line Name Stamp Of Former Owner On Endpapers. <br/> <br/> Clarendon Press hardcover
1985PH-339Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag 1985. Classic text contains detailed lecture notes presented at the Scheveningen Conference in 1984. Topics include symmetries and solutions of the Einstein equations; gauge fields gravitation and Kaluza-Klein theory; soliton surfaces and their applications; Hamiltonian flow on an energy surface; integrable lattice systems in two and three dimensions; isovectors and prolongation structures by Vessiot's vector field; gravitational shock waves; etc. 344 pgs. Illustrated. Tiny scrape to front cover. Minimal shelfwear. No spine creases. . Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Springer-Verlag Paperback
1787g1114Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldson. Worn condition. Cover heavily rubbed. Boards detached. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. Page edges darkening but content in overall good condition. Closed tears to fold-out chart. 1787. First Edition. Brown leather cover. 180mm x 110mm 7" x 4". vi 177pp. . Alexander Donaldson hardcover
1964BOOKS028437ICambridge:: M.I.T. Pr. VG unmarked Hardback; no DJ. c. 1964. ISBN: Abdus Salam N. Wiener et al 218 pp. Catalogs: PHYSICS. Keywords: PHYSICS MATHEMATICS QUANTUM PHYSICS. M.I.T. Pr. hardcover
1811009891Paris: Chez H. Nicolle 1811. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second augmented and corrected edition of the work originally published under the title "Da Tails Scientifiques". Two volumes handsomely bound in contemporary full mottled calf the backs intricately gilt decorative end papers. Very Good some rubbed spots to end papers. a few small rubs at edges. Chez H. Nicolle Hardcover
1990j2834London: Prentice-Hall Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 1990. 3rd Edition. Illustrated laminated card cover. 230mm x 180mm 9" x 7". xviii 507pp. . Prentice-Hall Ltd unknown