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Problems and Solutions on Electromagnetism (Major American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and ...6 reviews

World Scientific Publishing Company, 1993

One of the most useful books I have ever purchased
I purchased this book to assist me in my graduate courses using Jackson's text. Many of the homework assignments were actually problems taken from qualifying exams at different universites, so this book was very helpful for those problems. As for the Jackson problems, one will be lucky to find any help at all (too bad). I strongly recommend this to anyone who is pursuing a graduate physics ... 		  
  







  
  
Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics: Major American Universities Ph. D. Qualifying Questions and ...4 reviews

World Scientific Publishing Company, 1998

An excellent handbook on the subject
Sometimes it is very difficult to teach a course in quantum mechanics because there are few problems that have solutions that do not require months of research and numerical methods to solve. I have found that in my own courses on quantum mechanics, I take a lot of notes and I do a lot of homework assignments, but I don't have a whole lot of concrete, well-explained problems and solutions to show ... 		  
  







  
  
Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense9 reviews
Arieh Ben-Naim

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007

Entropy - no big deal
"... Arieh Ben-Naim invites the reader to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years -entropy and the second law of thermodynamics". This statement on the back cover for sure will reflect the experience of many who read this book. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand or teach the mysterious concept "entropy". Just sit back, open ... 		  
  







  
  
Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Major American Universities Ph.D. ...6 reviews

World Scientific Publishing Company, 1990

Completely wonderful
The entire series is my savior. Each volume covers the material needed in the junior/senior level of physics. It truly has an emense selection of problems. I found that nearly all of my homework/exams were either exactly the same or merely a slight variation from one contained. I also have yet to find a single error, not even a sign error. One important thing is that it does need to be a ... 		  
  







  
  
Problems and Solutions on Mechanics: Major American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions ...4 reviews
Yung-Kuo Lim

World Scientific Publishing Company, 1994

My new bibles
All of these books titled "Problems and Solutions on (subject): Major American Universities Ph.D. Qualifying Questions and Solutions" are invaluable tools for a physics graduate student, in my experience. When doing homework assignments, studying for exams or the qualifying exam itself, most graduate students should be elated to have an arsenal of solved problems at their disposal. I have ... 		  
  







  
  
First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory4 reviews
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006

Excellent primer to use as supplement or for review
This is a marvelous primer on measure-theoretic probability. I came across it a couple of years after taking a course based on Chung's famous text ("A Course in Prob. Theory") and found it to be an excellent book for review and remediation--that is, it helped me get a better overview of the material I had already learned and it helped me learn topics such as, say, uniform integrability, that ... 		  
  







  
  
Feynman's Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory4 reviews
Laurie M. Brown, Richard Phillips Feynman

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005

Pure Feynman - a real joy
I did a course on quantum theory in the 1970s with John Ward who was recommended for the Nobel Prize in 1965 (Feynman, Schwinger and Tomogana shared it). Those close to the action will know of Ward's Identity. John (died in 2002 from memory) used Feynman's lectures as his course notes. I must confess a soft spot for Feynman. I would have loved to have been in his lectures (buy his audio ... 		  
  







  
  
An Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe6 reviews
Leonard Susskind, James Lindesay

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004

Easy to understand - very simple, no-nonsense style.
The title of the book reminds me of the classic physics question: yes, this equation can be expanded for small values of the parameter. But before you whip out that expansion, first tell me what "small" means in this context? I would venture to say that the title of the book is a misnomer on some level. This is a technical book, there's no question about that. If you are not a physicist, ... 		  
  







  
  
Elementary Stochastic Calculus With Finance in View (Advanced Series on Statistical Science & Applied ...15 reviews
Thomas Mikosch

World Scientific Publishing Company, 1999

Not a finance book, but one hell of an applied math book...
First of all, and most importantly, this is a math book with some finance in it, not the other way around, so you need to know some math before tackling it! If you find Newtonian Calculus complicated, Stochastic Calculus (which, in the realm of mathematics, is not the easiest of topics to start with) is not for you. The aim of the book is not to present mathematical finance theory, such as ... 		  
  







  
  
Mathematical Methods For Foreign Exchange: A Financial Engineer's Approach7 reviews
Alexander Lipton

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2001

State of the Art
I own pretty much all of the books on quantitative finance and this one holds a cherished place on my bookshelf. Anybody either working as a quant or with aspirations to become one should dust off some space on their bookshelf as well. Anybody who does serious research in finance in either academia or industry already knows that it is somewhat rare for top researchers to pen books of any length. ... 		  
  







  
  
Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction: A Comprehensive Compilation of Evidence and Explanations about Cold ...2 reviews
Edmund Storms

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007

Science of LENR is a comprehensive work
This is the definitive work on low energy nuclear reactions. No fusion researcher should be without this book. It provides a newcomer to the field a rapid comprehensive exposure to the scientific work to date, provided with more than 1000 references, and is a valuable continuing resource. Dr. Edmond Storms is one of the leading experts in the field. He began work in the field in 1989 at Los ... 		  
  







  
  
Pleasures of Pi,e and Other Interesting Numbers
Y. E. O. Adrian

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006

This is a mathematics book written specifically for the enjoyment of non-mathematicians and those who hated math in school. The book is organized into two sections: (I) Beauty for the Eye (shallow water for the non-swimmer); and (II) A Feast for the Mind (slowly getting deeper for the more adventurous). 		  
  







  
  
Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics11 reviews
Martinus Veltman

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2003

Wonderful - both instructive and entertaining
Martinus Veltman has a rare gift - to have indepth knowledge of a complex subject, and be able to give the layman a plausible explanation of it. I have almost completed my second reading of the book. Such was the wealth of information, and my eagerness to read, that I could not take it all in on the first reading. The reader must persist with some of Dr Veltman's language quirks , but this is a ... 		  
  







  
  
A Farewell To Entropy2 reviews
Arieh Ben-Naim

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2008

The basics of Statistics, Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics in a nutshell
As all previous books of Arieh Bem-Naim have already shown, he is an excellent writer. This is a very clearly written book, wherein the explanations are sufficiently detailed for non-experts to understand. The book is very complete and stands for its own. It starts by presenting all the statistical background needed for the ulterior chapters. Then, the author presents the core construction and ... 		  
  







  
  
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics: Solutions to the Exercises
M. G. Calkin

World Scientific Publishing Company, 1999 		  
  







  
  
Subatomic Physics5 reviews
Ernest M. Henley, Alejandro Garcia

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007

Subatomic physics 3rd edition is an update, but not a new book
This review is an edit. I would change the 5 stars to 3 stars, if there were this option. I adopted Subatomic Physics 3rd ed. by Henley and Garcia for my physics course at Illinois for the spring, 2008 semester. The 3rd ed. is an update to the 2nd ed. by Frauenfelder and Henley. The new material accounts for 30 out of some 600 pages. The figures are redrawn, there are now some color photos, ... 		  
  







  
  
Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets2 reviews
Hagen Kleinert

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006

A Phenomenal Treatise
Kleinert's work is NOTHING short of phenomenal. After reading Feynman(+Hibbs) this is the text to follow up. Sadly the second edition which is in print contained MANY typos. The third edition fixes much, if not all; it also has added many new topics of various interest. The core physics remains as solid, and even clearer than the previous editions. Without casting aspersions on ... 		  
  







  
  
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORLD ENERGY: An Introductory Textbook (World Scientific Series on Energy and ...
Ferinand E. Banks

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007

This easy-to-read book presents an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to modern energy economics. Mathematical content is kept to a minimum, and advanced numerical concepts are placed in appendices. The two survey chapters are suitable for readers with little or no formal training in economics. Differing greatly from other energy textbooks, the book aims to provide the reader with an informed advantage. Principally intended as a textbook ... 		  
  







  
  
Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields
Kerson Huang

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields, from Maxwell's 1860 theory of electromagnetism to the 1954 theory of Yang and Mills that ... 		  
  







  
  
Multiphysics Modeling With Finite Element Methods (Series on Stability, Vibration and Control of Systems, ...
William B. J. Zimmerman

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006 		  
  







  




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