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1979Best.-Nr. PH-327Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press 1979. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed monograph on how certain physically relevant phenomena derive from the defining chararcteristics of various simple theoretical model systems. Topics include: molecular and macromolecular disorder; continuum and topological disorder; statistical mechanics of substitutional disorder; thermodynamics of topological disorder; excitations on a disordered linear chain; excitations on a disordered lattice; electrons in disordered metals; excitations of a topologically disordered network; dilute and amorphous magnets; electrons in gases; etc. 525 pgs. Illustrated. Gilt spine. Prior owner's name on front endpaper and small prior nameplate pastedown removal mark on title pg. barely noticeable. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
1991Best.-Nr. PH-330Singapore: World Scientific 1991. Comprehensive text presents a detailed examination of the fundamental and classical theories in physics including topics covering Newtonian mechanics; electricity and magnetism; Faraday Maxwell and electromagnetic theory; evolution of stars; black holes; heat and thermodynamics; quantum theory; atoms molecules chemistry and condensed matter; physics of fundamental particles; atomic nucleus; Feynman diagrams; the early universe; radiating black holes; etc. 567 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. World Scientific Hardcover
1953Best.-Nr. PH-329New York: Pergamon Press 1953. Classic monograph presents detailed topics covering ion and electron chambers; valve and circuit noise; signal to noise ratio; amplifier sensitivity; proportional and scintillation counters; nature of the signals from ionisation chambers; pulse shaping; etc. 155 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper; clean pocket remnant on rear endpaper; small numerals to lower front cover. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library. Pergamon Press Hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. PH-332Southampton England: Sabberton Publications 1980. Classic thesis presents a comprehensive unification theory based upon the law of electrodynamics which accounts for anomalies in the electron-ion energy transfer process observed in experiments relating to fusion power and its connection between the properties of elementary particles and the structured character of the vacuum medium which allows for exact theoretical evaluation of several fundamental physical constants. 206 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sabberton Publications Hardcover
1990Best.-Nr. PH-334Redwood City CA.: Addison-Wesley 1990. Comprehensive text covers a broad range of topics related to the fundamental properties theory and applications of nonneutral plasma including coverage of theoretical models of nonneutral plasma; Debye shielding; thermal equilibrium; single-particle trajectories; kinetic equilibrium and stability properties; macroscopic equilibrium and stability properties; diocotron instability; coherent electromagnetic wave generation by the cyclotron maser and free electron instabilities; equilibrium and stability properties of intense nonneutral flow in high-power diodes; propagation and stability of intense charged particle beams in a solenoidal focusing field and in an alternating-gradient focusing field; etc. 735 pgs. 143 figures and illustrations. Minimal shelfwear. Corners very slightly bumped. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Addison-Wesley Hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. PH-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
1979Best.-Nr. PH-340London U.K.: Academic Press 1979. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed synthesis of the basic physical processes and background theories of laser fusion including topics on fusion reactions; nonlinear processes; laser systems; quasi-potential and ponderomotive force; absorption of laser light and plasma radiation; shock waves and implosions; stability; plasma at high density pressure and temperature; etc. 290 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. Minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academic Press Hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. PH-341Boulder CO.: Golem Press 1969. Classic highly-acclaimed treatise on the Wiener-Hopf technique as applied to waveguides antennas and electromagnetic wave propagation. Weinstein was the first to generalize the Wiener-Hopf method for application to open-ended waveguides and related problems. Part I contains topics covering the diffraction of electromagnetic and acoustic waves at the open end of plane-parallel and circular waveguides including the author's rigorous solutions. Part II contains topics covering a wide variety of diffraction and propagation problems such as axial resonators; noncontacting plungers; corrugated structures; gratings; diaphrams in waveguides; finitely conducting structures; surface waves; shore refraction; sheath helixes; radiation; etc. 411 pgs. Illustrated. This edition has been Corrected and Updated by the author with respect to the original Russian edition published in 1966. Dustjacket price-clipped on lower front flap; very minimal rubbing to edges; in mylar. Very minimal shelfwear to text; upper corners slightly bumped. Scarce. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Golem Press Hardcover
1995Best.-Nr. PH-344Cambridge MA.: Perseus Books 1995. Classic text presents a detailed monograph covering calculations and techniques of perturbative quantum chromodynamics including perturbative predictions for electron-positron annihilations; deep inelastic lepton nucleon scattering; large-mass muon pair production in hadron-hadron collisions; renormalization and the running coupling constant in QCD; production of particles and jets in hadron-hadron collisions; upsilon decay; pion form factor; s-matrix formulas; etc. 366 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Perseus Books Paperback
1985Best.-Nr. PH-345Menlo ParkCA.: Benjamin/Cummings 1985. Classic comprehensive text presents a special collection of technical articles covering the ee- physics including charmed mesons; psionic matter; the tau lepton; upsilon resonances; quantum chromodynamics; charmed hadrons; D and F mesons; the ee- annihilation process; radiative transitions; two-photon physics; single-beam limitations; space charge limitations; performanceof ee- storage rings; etc. 478 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's name-stamp on front endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Benjamin/Cummings Hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. PH-349Oxford U.K.: Oxford University Press 1989. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed outline of all key concepts concerning the description and applications of novel semiconductor microstructures such as quantum wells superlattices heterojunction microdevices optical detectors etc. Includes coverage of properties of materials and optoelectronics applications in electronic and optical devices and contains over 80 problems with solutions. 245 pgs. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford University Press Paperback
1985Best.-Nr. PH-355: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1985. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed monograph covering select thermodynamic formulas including tables of Jacobians for one-component systems of unit mass and of variable mass and for binary systems of unit mass and of variable total mass by means of which relationscan be obtained between the thermodynamic quantities and their first derivatives. Includes an explanation of the experimental measurements necessary to obtain complete thermodynamic information; proofs of the relations; transformation of the work and heat line integrals fromone coordinate space to other coordinate spaces. 294 pgs. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carnegie Institution of Washington unknown
1970Best.-Nr. PH-357Washington D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1970. Classic monograph presents detailed topics covering ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium; Lame's functions; theory of Poincare; theory of Jeans; theory of Lichtenstein; theory of Liapounov; Poincare's tidal theory; general properties of equilibrium figures; etc. 168 pp. Illustrated. Slight crease to upper front corner. No spine cracks. Scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Paperback
1989Best.-Nr. PH-359Oxford UK: Pergamon Press 1989. Comprehensive text presents detailed topics covering the concepts and methodology of physics of low-speed fluid mechanics including mechanical and thermodynamic properties of fluids; dimensional analysis; fluid statics and kinematics; frictionless flow; Euler and Bernoulli equations; one dimensional analysis; dynamic and hydrostatic pressure; motion with rotation; conservation of mass; streamlines viscous fluids; vortex lines and stream functions; momentum theorem; boundary layers and turbulence; etc. 300 pgs. Illustrated. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pergamon Press Paperback
1986Best.-Nr. PH-250: World Scientific 1986. Classic comprehensive text presents detailed topics on cosmology and galaxy formation; quantum theory of the universe; baryogenesis; standard cosmology; formation of structure in the universe; axions astrophysics and cosmology; inflation; monopoles cosmology and astrophysics; Friedmann universes; etc. 220 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. Minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . World Scientific Hardcover
Best.-Nr. PH-252New York & Berlin: Academic Press/Springer-Verlag 1957. Classic comprehensive text presents calculations pertaining to hydrogen-like and helium-like atoms and their comparison with experiments including methodology and physical aspects. Detailed topics include: the hydrogen and helium atom without external fields; atoms in external fields; relativistic and nonrelativistic theory; interaction with radiation; spherical harmonics; etc. 368 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's name on front cover. Dustjacket has two small chunks missing on top and lower edge and a few tint closed tears. In mylar. Minimal shelfwear. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academic Press/Springer-Verlag Hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. PH-257New York: Springer-Verlag 1989. Classic comprehensive text contains detailed technical papers presented by leading scientists and field experts on a variety of topics including: pseudo-differential operator techniques; inverse problems; mathematical foundations of wave propagation in random media; Fast-Hartley transform; computational algorithms for electromagnetic scattering problems; nonlinear wave interaction problems in fluid mechanics; wave phenomena in physics and the atmosphere; viscous fingering in liquid crystals; solitons and wave localization; etc. 275 pgs. Illustrated. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Springer-Verlag Hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. PH-258Oxford U.K.: Pergamon Press 1979. Classic comprehensive text translated from the original Russian presents a detailed monograph on the theoretical and analytical applications of statistical diffraction theory and the scattering of electromagnetic and acoustic waves from randomly rough surfaces. Includies topics on fundamental equations of wave propagation; statistical formulation of the diffraction problem; wave scattering from a slightly rough and moving rough surfaces; fluctuations in the wave field scattered by a statistically rough surface; scattering from large-scale irregularities; scattering from rough bodies of finite dimension; field fluctuations for scattering from large-scale irregularities; two-scale rough surface scattering model; Green's function methods in the theory of multiple scattering; etc. 527 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's name strikethrough on front endpaper. Minor small scuff on front cover. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pergamon Press Hardcover
1991Best.-Nr. PH-260Mineola N.Y.: Dover 1991. Comprehensive classic text by two leading physicists presents an uncommonly clear and cogent investigation and correlation of key aspects of theoretical nuclear physics. Topics include studies of the nucleus nuclear forces nuclear spectroscopy two- three- and four-body problems nuclear reactions beta-decay and nuclear shell structure explorations of nuclear reactions etc. 878 pgs. 112 Illustrations. Upper corner of front cover slightly creased. No spine cracks or creases. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dover Paperback
Best.-Nr. PH-261London U.K.: Cambridge University Press 1966. Classic comprehensive revised text contains detailed topics covering the theory of imperfect gases; dissociation and evaporation; interatomic forces; Nernst's heat theorem and the chemical constants; the electron theory of metals thermionics and metallic conduction; ferromagnetism; chemical kinetics in gaseous systems; collision processes; applications to stellar interiors; mechanisms of interaction; etc. 864 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cambridge University Press Paperback
1973Best.-Nr. PH-264Boulder CO.: Golem Press 1973. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed monograph covering the first publication of a method explicitly treating non-Gaussian random processes with virtually any probability distribution and correlation function including sections on non-classical polynomials; polynomials of a discrete variable; othogonalization procedures; etc. 280 pgs. Illustrated. This was the late Professor Beckmann's personal copy. Minor rubbing to dustjacket; in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Golem Press Hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. PH-266Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag 1986. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed analysis of electromagnetic systems based on field concepts in preference to the wide-spread lumped-parameter approach. Topics include: principles of magneto-electric interactions; electromagnetic induction: steady-state and transient phenomena; dynamic phenomena; electrodynamics of shielding; etc. 296 pgs. Illustrated with 88 figures. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Springer-Verlag Hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. PH-268Amsterdam The Netherlands: North-Holland 1992. Classic comprehensive text contains technical papers contributed by leading respected international field experts and scientists covering fundamental studies of macroscopic quantum phenomena predominantly properties of new systems such as small circuits at low temperatures and high-Tc superconductors. Topics include: specific heat of high-Tc superconductors; thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of 3He-4He mixtures; ultrasonic spectroscopy of the order parameter collective modes of superfluid 3He; etc. 394 pgs. Illustrated. Small stamps on front endpaper and copyright pg. dustjacket has two small closed edge-tears taped; in mylar. Virtually no shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex- Professional Library. North-Holland Hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. HS-29Washington D.C.: Naval Research Laboratory 1981. Comprehensive historical text presents a detailed scholarly case study of mission-oriented research and development during the critical period between WWI through WWII including the development of radar at the Naval Research Laboratory combined with the personalities and objectives of the people who were involved in the various projects. Text further examines how how new ideas and technology are introduced to society; how institutions develop their positions shape their thoughts generate thoughts and respond to constraints of the time. 228 pgs. Illustrated. Gilt spine and front cover. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Naval Research Laboratory Hardcover
1990Best.-Nr. PH-269New York: Springer-Verlag 1990. Classic comprehensive text contains updated sections on quantum mechanics coherent states field quantization planetary motion optics and continuous systems. Text discusses chaotic nonlinear dynamics and the difference between classical and quantum theories of continuous fields. 333 pgs. Illustrated with 101 figures. Pgs. 136-137 has four lines of very neat underlines which does not affect the text. . Second Edition Enlarged. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Springer-Verlag Hardcover
