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The Renormalization Group and Condensed Matter Physics

October 06, 2025 03:22 PM
This book develops the theory, renormalization group theory, and illustrates the broad applicability of the renormalization group to major problems in condensed matter physics. It will be especially useful for students, as well as researchers in condensed matter physics, soft matter physics, biophysics, and statistical physics.

October 2025

Shadows of the Circle: From Conic Sections to Planetary Motion

October 06, 2025 03:18 PM
This book takes the reader on a journey in the mathematical universe from conic sections to mathematical modelling of planetary systems. This book is addressed to undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers interested in the geometry of conic sections, including the historical background and mathematical methods used.

October 2025

Physics of Supernovae and their Mathematical Models

October 06, 2025 03:14 PM
This book is dedicated to the theory of supernovae, focusing on new computational methods and simulations. It contains three parts: basic principles, numerical methods, and applications.

October 2025

Low-Cost Physics Experiments Using New Technologies

October 06, 2025 03:05 PM
This book presents a set of low-cost physics experiments, making use of the new technologies available (data collection and analysis systems by computers, Internet, video, commercial electronics, smartphones, etc.), while highlighting the methodological aspects of physics and science in general. The projects are aimed at university students of science and engineering, although some may be used in high schools.

October 2025

Learning Astronomy by Doing Astronomy: Collaborative Lecture Activities

October 06, 2025 03:00 PM
This workbook, written by two master teachers, contains 36 field-tested activities that span the introductory astronomy course and can be used in any size classroom. Activities are built around a concept that leads students from basic knowledge to a deeper understanding through guided interactions.

October 2025

Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

October 06, 2025 02:56 PM
Presents a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize-winning experimental physicist hailed as 'the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century', Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988).

October 2025

Thermodynamics: From Energy and Entropy to Heat Transfer and Phase Transitions

September 26, 2025 08:44 AM
How are thermals in gliding related to thermodynamic adiabatic processes? In what way can the concept of entropy be used to analyze a solar power plant in the desert? This book presents thermodynamics with a constant focus on practical applications from everyday life and technology. A deep understanding of thermodynamic principles is skillfully conveyed by applying theory to real-world situations.

Uploaded September 2025

The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the fateful decision to use it

September 25, 2025 01:42 PM
The Hiroshima Men's unique narrative recounts the decade-long journey towards this first atomic attack. This thrilling account takes the reader from the corridors of power in the White House and the Pentagon to the test sites of New Mexico; from the air war above Germany to the Potsdam Conference of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin to the savage reconquest of the Pacific to the deadly firebombing air raids across the Japanese islands.

Uploaded September 2025

Smith-Purcell Radiation: Basic Theory and Applications

September 11, 2025 01:47 PM
The book is aimed primarily at experimentalists but starts with a relatively simple theoretical description of the origin of this radiation and then discusses its application either as a beam diagnostic tool or as a tuneable source of THz radiation. There is also a brief overview of other THz sources in order to allow the reader to assess the advantages of Smith-Purcell radiation.

Uploaded September 2025

Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers

September 11, 2025 01:43 PM
Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals working in the applied sciences, this clearly written book offers realistic, practical coverage of diffusion-type problems, hyperbolic-type problems, elliptic-type problems, and numerical and approximate methods. Each chapter contains a selection of relevant problems (answers are provided) and suggestions for further reading.

Uploaded September 2025

Dan Broadbent

Physical & Computer Sciences Librarian
dan_broadbent@byu.edu