New Books

New Books List for March 2008

The following books were received at the Physics Library during March 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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QC174.12 S3 2007 . . . . ADVANCED QUANTUM THEORY.  3rd Edition.  By Michael D. Scadron.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC173.456 N38 2007 . . . . CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS:  THE SCIENCE OF THE WORLD AROUND US.   By the National Research Council.  Washington, DC:  National Academies Press, 2007.  (Available on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11967)

QC793.3 G38 H385 2007 . . . . FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE:  THE STORY OF GAUGE FIELDS.  By Kerson Huang.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC476 C6 W65 2007 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF COHERENCE AND POLARIZATION OF LIGHT.  By Emil Wolf.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QC20.7 D52 B35 2007 . . . . LECTURES ON FUZZY AND FUZZY SUSY PHYSICS.  By A. P. Balachandran, S. Kürkçüoğlu and S. Vaidya.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

LH 7V42 v.166 . . . . METROLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS.  (Proceedings)  Edited by T.W. Haensch, S. Leschiutta and A.J. Wallard.  Amsterdam:  IOS Press, 2007.  [Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi,” no.166]

Online only . . . . MICROSCALE AND NANOSCALE HEAT TRANSFER.  Edited by Sebastion Volz.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [Topics in Applied Physics, v.107]  (Available on the Internet at http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/978-3-540-36056-8/)

QC718.5 P55 I74 2007 . . . . MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN PLASMAS:  COLLISIONS OF CHARGED PARTICLES WITH MOLECULES.  By Yukikazu Itikawa.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [Springer Series on Atomic, Optical and Plasma Physics, v.43]

Q111 S71 v.228 . . . .  THE NMR PROBE OF HIGH-TC MATERIALS.   By R.E. Walstedt.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2008.  [Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, no.228]  (Available on the Internet at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1615-0430&volume=228)

QC381 M66 2007 . . . . OPTICS:  LEARNING BY COMPUTING, WITH MODEL EXAMPLES USING MATHCAD, MATLAB, MATHEMATICA AND MAPLE.  2nd Edition.  By Karl Dieter Möller.  New York:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.

QC793.2 J35 2007 . . . . PEDESTRIAN APPROACH TO PARTICLE PHYSICS.  By Chueng-Ryong Ji.  Seoul:  Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, 2007.  [APCTP Monograph]  (gift)

QC718.6 N38 2007 . . . . PLASMA SCIENCE:  ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST.  By The National Research Council.  Washington, DC:  National Academies Press, 2007.  (Available on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11960)

QA76.889 B46 2004 . . . . PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM COMPUTATION AND INFORMATION.  Volume 1:  Basic Concepts.  By Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati and Giuliano Strini.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2004.

QC793.3 F5 W46 2007 . . . . SPACE-TIME-MATTER:  MODERN HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL COSMOLOGY.  2nd Edition.  By Paul S. Wesson.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC776 F723 2007 . . . . SUBATOMIC PHYSICS.  3rd Edition.  By Ernest M. Henley and Alejandro García.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC174.17 S9 A38 2007 . . . . SUPERSYMMETRY IN PARTICLE PHYSICS:  AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION.  By Ian J.R. Aitchison.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.