New Books

New Books List for June 2008

The following books were received at the Physics Library during June 2008. Please check library stacks or ask library staff for assistance. Check MadCat to see if anyone has the book checked out or request that a book be sent to a library near you with our Book Retrieval Service.

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QC411 H35 2007 . . . . BASICS OF INTERFEROMETRY.  2nd Edition.  By P. Hariharan.  Boston:  Elsevier Academic Press, 2007. 

QC793.5 F42 J34 2007 . . . . COMPOSITE FERMIONS.  By Jainendra K. Jain.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QC20 M36 v.28 . . . . A DRESSING METHOD IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS.  By Evgeny Doktorov and Sergey Leble.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [Mathematical Physics Studies, v.28]

QC174.12 B69 2008 . . . . ESSENTIAL QUANTUM  MECHANICS.  By Gary Bowman.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.

QC176 S64 2007 v.1 . . . . FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PHYSICS OF SOLIDS.  Volume 1:  Structure and Dynamics.  By Jenö Sólyom.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.

QC793.3 G38 H43 2007 . . . . GAUGING WHAT’S REAL:  THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY GAUGE THEORIES.   By Richard Healey.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2007.

RESERVE QC30 G7 v.2008 . . . . 2008 GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND RELATED FIELDS.  New York:  American Institute of Physics, 2008.  (on reserve)  (Available on the Internet at http://www.gradschoolshopper.com/)

QC179 M34 2008 v.1 . . . . GRAVITATIONAL WAVES.  Volume 1:  Theory and Experiments.  By Michele Maggiore.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.

QC173.65 B43 2007 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF MODERN PHYSICS:  SPECIAL RELATIVITY, QUANTUM AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS.  By Carlo Maria Becchi and Massimo D’Elia.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.

Q125 A75 v.61, no.6 . . . . ON THE VERGE OF “UMDEUTUNG” IN MINNESOTA:  VAN VLECK AND THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE.  By Anthony Duncan and Michel Janssen.  In:  Archive for History of Exact Sciences, v.61, no.6, pp.553-624 (2007).

QC689.5 L35 A84 2006 . . . . OPTICAL TRAPPING AND MANIPULATION OF NEUTRAL PARTICLES USING LASERS:  A REPRINT VOLUME WITH COMMENTARIES.  By Arthur Ashkin.  Hackensack, NJ:  World Scientific, 2006.

QC173.4 P65 S77 2007 . . . . THE PHYSICS OF POLYMERS:  CONCEPTS FOR UNDERSTANDING THEIR STRUCTURES AND BEHAVIOR.  3rd Edition.  By Gert Strobl.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.

QC174.45 R345 2007 . . . . QUANTUM FIELD THEORY OF NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATES.  By Jørgen Rammer.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QC173.59 S65 G67 2001 . . . . TIME TRAVEL IN EINSTEIN’S UNIVERSE:  THE PHYSICAL POSSIBILITIES OF TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.  By J. Richard Gott.  Boston:  Houghton-Mifflin, 2001.

QA935 M37 2008 . . . . WAVE PROPAGATION:  FROM ELECTRONS TO PHOTONICS CRYSTALS AND LEFT-HANDED MATERIALS.  By Peter Markoš and Costas M. Soukoulis.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2008.