Read article 'The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas'
The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas
A useful reference work, packed with data as well as equations.
Read article 'The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas'
Read article 'Gateways into Electronics'
Gateways into Electronics
This textbook aims to enable students in engineering and the experimental sciences to gain a quantitative understanding of modern electronics and thus design their own instrumentation.
Read article 'Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger'
Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger
Robert Finkelstein reviews in 2000 Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger.
Read article 'Four decades in the proton stronghold'
Four decades in the proton stronghold
Some 40 years after it was commissioned, and as well as continuing to provide particles to its own physics programme, Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron has a new future as the injector ...
Read article 'Synchrotron radiation is brighter than ever'
Synchrotron radiation is brighter than ever
What began life as an unwanted energy loss has become a major research industry. Dominique Cornuéjols of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble looks at the history and accomplishm...
Read article 'Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects'
Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects
Now in paperback, this comprehensive textbook looks at a fruitful area of inflationary cosmological dynamics.
Read article 'Knots and Feynman Diagrams'
Knots and Feynman Diagrams
This book should be useful for theoretical physicists and for mathematicians.
Read article 'The Physics of Particle Detection'
The Physics of Particle Detection
Claus Grupen reviews in 2000 The Physics of Particle Detection.
Read article 'Wolfgang Pauli: never to be excluded'
Wolfgang Pauli: never to be excluded
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli, who was born in Vienna on 25 April 1900 and died in Zürich on 15 December 1958. Maurice Jacob describes several events that have been arrang...
Read article 'Rutherford – Scientist Supreme'
Rutherford – Scientist Supreme
Gordon Fraser reviews in 2000 Rutherford - Scientist Supreme.
