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Edexcel A2 Physics Student Unit Guide: Unit 5 Physics from Creation to Collapse
Hodder Education 2013; US$ 15.98Perfect for revision, these guides explain the unit requirements, summarise the content and include specimen questions with graded answers. Each full-colour New Edition Student Unit Guide provides ideal preparation for your unit exam:.; Feel confident you understand the unit: each guide comprehensively covers the unit content and includes topic summaries,... more...
Let There Be Light
World Scientific Publishing Company 2013; US$ 153.00This book is the first of its kind devoted to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry and the universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences such as the rules of geometrical optics and even Einstein's... more...
Physik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler
Wiley 2012; US$ 21.95Mit diesem zweibändigen Werk liegt wiederum eine erneuerte und verbesserte Auflage des bewährten Lehrbuchs von Friedhelm Kuypers vor. Band 2 umfasst die Elektrodynamik, Optik und Wellenlehre. Unter anderem werden folgende Themen behandelt: LCD-Fernseher, Laserdrucker, CD- und DVD-Spieler, Lichtleiter, Abschirmung von Feldern, Drehstrom. Zusammenhänge... more...
Laser, Licht und Leben
Wiley 2012; US$ 37.50Der Mensch hat gelernt, Licht zu kontrollieren, in dem er beobachtete, wie Materie und Licht in der natürlichen Welt sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und verändern. Die neue Disziplin der Biophotonik setzt Licht als vielseitiges Werkzeug ein, um biologische Vorgänge verstehen zu lernen, Krankheiten besser diagnostizieren und heilen zu können.... more...
A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 59.99This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It shows how light gradually became the central entity of a domain of physics that no longer referred to the functioning of the eye; it retraces the subsequent competition between medium-based and corpuscular... more...
Progress in Optics
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 218.00In the 50 years since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series that have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments, helping optical... more...
The Physics of Invisibility
Springer 2011; US$ 23.99The ability is see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film this... more...
Fundamentals of Light Sources and Lasers
Wiley 2011; US$ 150.00A comprehensive introduction to the burgeoning field of photonics The field of photonics is finding increasing applications across a broad range of industries. While many other books provide an overview of the subject, Fundamentals of Light Sources and Lasers closes a clear gap in the current literature by concentrating on the principles of laser operation... more...









