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It then describes more advanced topics such as superconductors, monopoles, radiation, and electromagnetism in matter. The book concludes with a detailed review of the mathematics of vector calculus.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295403422069,"sku":"9781009594653","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009594653.jpg?v=1786017362"},{"product_id":"9781009594691","title":"Fluid Mechanics","description":"Take anything in the universe, put it in a box, and heat it up. Regardless of what you start with, the motion of the substance will be described by the equations of fluid mechanics. This remarkable universality is the reason why fluid mechanics is important. The key equation of fluid mechanics is the Navier-Stokes equation. This textbook starts with the basics of fluid flows, building to the Navier-Stokes equation while explaining the physics behind the various terms and exploring the astonishingly rich landscape of solutions. The book then progresses to more advanced topics, including waves, fluid instabilities, and turbulence, before concluding by turning inwards and describing the atomic constituents of fluids. It introduces ideas of kinetic theory, including the Boltzmann equation, to explain why the collective motion of 1023 atoms is, under the right circumstances, always governed by the laws of fluid mechanics.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295546028405,"sku":"9781009594691","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009594691.jpg?v=1786017363"},{"product_id":"9781009594851","title":"Quantum Mechanics: Volume 3","description":"The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness comes about because, at the most fundamental level, the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This is the most spectacularly accurate and powerful theory ever devised, one that has given us insights into many aspects of the world, from the structure of matter to the meaning of information. This textbook provides a comprehensive account of all things quantum. It starts by introducing the wavefunction and its interpretation as an ephemeral wave of complex probability, before delving into the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics and exploring its diverse applications, from atomic physics and scattering, to quantum computing. Designed to be accessible, this volume is suitable for both students and researchers, beginning with the basics before progressing to more advanced topics.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312032199029,"sku":"9781009594851","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009594851.jpg?v=1786017364"},{"product_id":"everything-is-fields","title":"Everything is Fields","description":"At the most fundamental level, you are made not of particles or forces. You are made of fields.   These strange, fluid-like entities stretch across the universe. What we call particles are ripples in them. What we call forces are fields responding to those ripples. Even empty space is not truly empty, but alive with restless quantum activity. This is the startling vision revealed by quantum field theory: the most successful, most fundamental and least understood framework in modern physics.   In Everything is Fields, Cambridge theoretical physicist David Tong gives readers a dazzling, accessible and often very funny guide to this extraordinary idea. Quantum field theory is usually considered the hardest subject in physics, yet it underpins our deepest description of nature: the Standard Model. It explains electrons and quarks, light and magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces, the Higgs boson, antimatter, atoms, materials and the early universe.   Along the way, Tong brings to life the scientists who uncovered this hidden structure of reality: Faraday imagining invisible lines of force, Maxwell discovering that light is a ripple of electromagnetic fields, Dirac predicting antimatter, Feynman taming infinities and Higgs revealing the field that gives fundamental particles mass.   The result is a profound, landmark work of popular science which finally brings quantum field theory to a wide readership and describes everything from the smallest subatomic particle to the dynamics of the entire universe.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499319992693,"sku":"9780241846902","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-david-tong.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}