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From Newton to Mandelbrot

A Primer in Theoretical Physics

By: Dietrich Stauffer,H. Eugene Stanley,Annick Lesne

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From Newton to Mandelbrot

A Primer in Theoretical Physics

By: Dietrich Stauffer,H. Eugene Stanley,Annick Lesne

This textbook takes the reader on a tour of the most important landmarks of theoretical physics: classical, quantum, and statistical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics, as well as the most modern and exciting of all: elementary particles and the physics of fractals. The second edition has been supplemented with a new chapter devoted to concise though complete presentation of dynamical systems, bifurcations and chaos theory. The treatment is confined to the essentials of each area, presenting all the central concepts and equations at an accessible level. Chapters 1 to 4 contain the standard material of courses in theoretical physics and are supposed to accompany lectures at the university; thus they are rather condensed. They are supposed to fill one year of teaching. Chapters 5 and 6, in contrast, are written less condensed since this material may not be part of standard lectures and thus could be studied without the help of a university teacher. An appendix on elementary particles lies somewhere in between: It could be a summary of a much more detailed course, or studied without such a course. Illustrations and numerous problems round off this unusual textbook. It will ideally accompany the students all along their course in theoretical physics and prove indispensable in preparing and revising the exams. It is also suited as a reference for teachers or scientists from other disciplines who are interested in the topic.

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Scale Invariance

From Phase Transitions to Turbulence

By: Annick LESNE,Michel Laguës

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Scale Invariance

From Phase Transitions to Turbulence

By: Annick LESNE,Michel Laguës

During a century, from the Van der Waals mean field description (1874) of gases to the introduction of renormalization group (RG techniques 1970), thermodynamics and statistical physics were just unable to account for the incredible universality which was observed in numerous critical phenomena. The great success of RG techniques is not only to solve perfectly this challenge of critical behaviour in thermal transitions but to introduce extremely useful tools in a wide field of daily situations where a system exhibits scale invariance. The introduction of scaling, scale invariance and universality concepts has been a significant turn in modern physics and more generally in natural sciences. Since then, a new "physics of scaling laws and critical exponents", rooted in scaling approaches, allows quantitative descriptions of numerous phenomena, ranging from phase transitions to earthquakes, polymer conformations, heartbeat rhythm, diffusion, interface growth and roughening, DNA sequence, dynamical systems, chaos and turbulence. The chapters are jointly written by an experimentalist and a theorist. This book aims at a pedagogical overview, offering to the students and researchers a thorough conceptual background and a simple account of a wide range of applications. It presents a complete tour of both the formal advances and experimental results associated with the notion of scaling, in physics, chemistry and biology.

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From Newton to Mandelbrot

A Primer in Theoretical Physics

By: Dietrich Stauffer,H. Eugene Stanley,Annick Lesne

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A Primer in Theoretical Physics

By: Dietrich Stauffer,H. Eugene Stanley,Annick Lesne

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Scale Invariance

From Phase Transitions to Turbulence

By: Annick LESNE,Michel Laguës

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From Phase Transitions to Turbulence

By: Annick LESNE,Michel Laguës

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From Newton to Mandelbrot

From Newton to Mandelbrot

Scale Invariance

Scale Invariance

From Newton to Mandelbrot

From Newton to Mandelbrot

Scale Invariance

Scale Invariance

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