New books: May 2020

Categories:

• Acoustics
• Astronomy and astrophysics
• Atomic and molecular physics
• Biological and medical physics
• Chemical physics
• Computers and computational physics
• Condensed-matter physics
• Cosmology and relativity
• Device physics
• Fluids
• Geophysics
• History and philosophy
• Instrumentation and techniques
• Materials science
• Nonlinear science and chaos
• Optics and photonics
• Particle physics
• Popularizations
• Quantum physics
• Space and planetary science
• Statistical physics and thermodynamics
• Texts and education
• Theory and mathematical methods

Acoustics

• Signal Processing and Image Processing for Acoustical Imaging, W. S. Gan (Springer, 2020) $99.99

Astronomy and astrophysics

• Astroparticle Physics, C. Grupen (Springer, 2020) $74.99
• Luna Cognita: A Comprehensive Observer’s Handbook of the Known Moon. Vols. 1-3, R. A. Garfinkle (Springer, 2020) $89.99

Atomic and molecular physics

• Pear-Shaped Nuclei, S. C. Pancholi (World Scientific, 2020) $78.00
• SU(3) Symmetry in Atomic Nuclei, V. K. B. Kota (Springer, 2020) $139.99

Biological and medical physics

• Introduction to Bionanotechnology, Y.-C. Lee, J.-Y. Moon (Springer, 2020) $72.00

Chemical physics

• Molecular Nanomagnets: Fundamental Understanding, H. C. Herper et al (Springer, 2020) $59.99

Computers and computational physics

• Computer Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems Using Wolfram SystemModeler, K. Rozhdestvensky et al (Springer, 2020) $49.99
• Quantum Computing: Physics, Blockchains, and Deep Learning Smart Networks, M. Swan, R. P. dos Santos, F. Witte (World Scientific, 2020) $138.00

Condensed-matter physics

• Advanced Quantum Condensed Matter Physics: One-Body, Many-Body, and Topological Perspectives, M. El-Batanouny (Cambridge U. Press, 2020) $89.99

Cosmology and relativity

• Topics on Strong Gravity: A Modern View on Theories and Experiments, C. A. Z. Vasconcellos, ed (World Scientific, 2020) $118.00

Device physics

• Air-Stable Inverted Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, K. Morii, H. Fukagaqa (Springer, 2020) $59.99
• Fundamentals of Layout Design of Electronic Circuits, J. Lienig, J. Scheible (Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Rubidium Atomic Clock: The Workhorse of Satellite Navigation, G. M. Saxena, B. Ghosal (World Scientific, 2020) $98.00

Fluids

• Air Lubricated and Air Cavity Ships: Development, Design, and Application, G. A. Pavlov, L. Yun, A. Bliault, S.-L. He (Springer, 2020) $119.99
• Nonlinear, Nonlocal and Fractional Turbulence: Alternative Recipes for the Modeling of Turbulence, P. W. Egolf, K. Hutter (Springer, 2020) $139.99
• Two-Phase Gas-Liquid Flow in Pipes with Different Orientations, A. J. Ghajar (Springer, 2020) $59.99

Geophysics

• Modern Singular Spectral-Based Denoising and Filtering Techniques for 2D and 3D Reflection Seismic Data, R. K. Tiwari, R. Rekapalli (Capital Publishing and Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Quantum Measurement of Gravity for Geodesists and Geophysicists, F. Sanso, F. Migliaccio (Springer, 202) $139.99

History and philosophy

• The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth, F. A. von Hippel (U. Chicago Press, 2020) $29.00
• Galileo and the Science Deniers, M. Livio (Simon & Schuster, 2020) $28.00
• Getting to Know the World Scientifically: An Objective View, P. Neeham (Springer, 2020) $74.99
• The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer, J. Conant (W. W. Norton, 2020) $27.95
• Lightspeed: The Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light, J. C. H. Spence (Oxford U. Press, 2020) $32.95
• The Majorana Case: Letters, Documents, Testimonies, E. Recami (World Scientific, 2020) $48.00
• The Making of a Scribe: Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa, R. Middeke-Conlin (Springer, 2020) $109.99
• Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World, D. Kaiser (U. Chicago Press, 2020) $26.00
• The Waters Above the Firmament: An Exemplary Case of Faith-Reason Conflict, D. Boccaletti (Springer, 2020) $89.99

Instrumentation and techniques

• Advanced Computing in Electron Microscopy, E. J. Kirkland (Springer, 2020) $139.99

Materials science

• Emerging Trends in Terahertz Solid-State Physics and Devices: Sources, Detectors, Advanced Materials and Light-Matter Interactions, A. Biswas et al., eds (Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Flexible Engineering Toward Green Aircraft: CAE Tools for Sustainable Mobility, M. E. Biancolini, U. Cella, eds (Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Fracture Mechanics of Electrically Passive and Active Composites with Periodic Cracking along the Interface, S. Kozinov, V. Loboda (Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Fracture Mechanics: An Introduction, E. E. Gdoutos (Springer, 2020) $109.99
• Handbook of Materials Modeling. Applications: Current and Emerging Materials, W. Andreoni, S. Yip, eds (Springer, 2020) $999.99
• The Physics of Graphene, M. I. Katsnelson (Cambridge University Press, 2020) $84.99
• Representation Surfaces for Physical Properties of Materials: A Visual Approach to Understanding Anisotropic Materials, M. Laso, N. Jimeno (Springer, 2020) $109.99

Nonlinear science and chaos

• Income Distribution Dynamics of Economic Systems: An Econophysical Approach, M. B. Ribeiro (Cambridge University Press, 2020) $74.99

Optics and photonics

• Introduction to Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics, V. V. Shtykov, S. M. Smolskiy (Springer, 2020) $89.99
• Optical Communications: Components and Systems, M. Sibley (Springer, 2020) $74.99
• Optics, Photonics and Laser Technology 2018, P. Ribeiro, M. Raposo, eds (Springer, 2019) $149.99
• Polariton Physics: From Dynamic Bose-Einstein Condensates in Strongly-Coupled Light-Matter Systems to Polariton Lasers, A. Rahimi-Iman (Springer, 2020) $139.99

Particle physics

• Physics of Fast Processes in Scintillators, M. Korzhik, G. Tamulaitis, A. N. Vasil’ev (Springer, 2020) $149.99

Popularizations

• Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space, K. P. Hand (Princeton U. Press, 2020) $27.95
• Built on Sand: The Science of Granular Materials, E. Guyon, J.-Y. Delenne, F. Radjai (The MIT Press, 2020) $39.95
• Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum, L. Smolin (Penguin, 2020) $18.00
• Every Breath You Take: Exploring the Science of Our Changing Atmosphere, M. Broomfield (Pegasus Books, 2019) $27.95
• Fly, Fly Again, K. Jaffe, J. Lawson (Greenleaf, 2020) $15.95
• From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way, M. Bond (Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press, 2020) $29.95
• The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System, P. Murdin (Pegasus Books, 2020) $27.95
• Spacefarers: How Humans will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond, C. Wanjek (Harvard U. Press, 2020) $29.95
• Underland: A Deep Time Journey, R. Macfarlane (W. W. Norton, 2019) $17.95

Quantum physics

• The Amazing World of Quantum Computing, R. K. Bera (Springer, 2020) $74.99
• Understanding Quantum Mechanics: The World According to Modern Quantum Foundations, D. Dürr, D. Lazarovici (Springer, 2020) $69.99

Space and planetary science

• Basic Calculus of Planetary Orbits and Interplanetary Flight: The Missions of the Voyagers, Cassini, and Juno, A. J. Hahn (Springer, 2020) $69.99
• Communicating Space Exploration: Challenges, State of the Art and Future Trends, F. Drigani (Springer, 2020) $89.00

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

• Analytic Combustion: With Thermodynamics, Chemical Kinetics and Mass Transfer, A. W. Date (Springer, 202) $109.99
• Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, A. Feldmeier (Springer, 2019) $109.99

Texts and education

• Electronics for Physicists: An Introduction, B. H. Suits (Springer, 2020) $74.99
• Problems and Puzzles in Electric Fields, T. Takuma, T. Shindo (Springer, 2020) $79.99
• A Student’s Guide to the Schrödinger Equation, D. A. Fleisch (Cambridge U. Press, 2020) $24.99

Theory and mathematical methods

• N = 2 Supergravity in D = 4, 5, 6 Dimensions, E. Lauria, A. Van Proeyen (Springer, 2020) $69.99
• Charge Transport in Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures: The Maximum Entropy Approach, V. D. Camiola, G. Mascali, V. Romano (Springer, 2020) $139.99
• Feature Learning and Understanding: Algorithms and Applications, H. Zhao, Z. Lai, H. Leung, X. Zhang (Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Foundations of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 2: Algorithms, Approximation, Optimization, J. Humphreys, T. J. Jarvis (SIAM, 2020) $94.00
• Interpolatory Methods for Model Reduction, A. C. Antoulas, C. A. Beattie, S. Güğercin (SIAM, 2020) $79.00
• An Introductory Path to Quantum Theory: Using Mathematics to Understand the Ideas of Physics, S. B. Sontz (Springer, 2020) $59.99
• Mathematical Methods for Oscillations and Waves, J. Franklin (Cambridge U. Press, 2020) $64.99
• Mathematical Methods of Theoretical Physics, K. Svozil (World Scientific, 2020) $78.00
• Semiclassical and Stochastic Gravity: Quantum Field Effects on Curved Spacetime, B.-L. B. Hu, E. Verdaguer (Cambridge U. Press, 2020) $200.00
• Transient Magnetic Fields, N. R. Sheeley, Jr. (Springer, 2020) $139.99