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Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Praise for Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers, Third Edition

"Tom McLaughlin is a proven master at making the daunting concepts of nonprofit financial management clear and engaging. This book is a superb introduction for new nonprofit executives, board members, and students. It is also an...

One Hundred Physics Visualizations Using MATLAB (with DVD-Rom)

World Scientific Publishing, 2013

This book provides visualizations of many topics in general physics. The aim is to have an interactive MATLAB script wherein the user can vary parameters in a specific problem and then immediately see the outcome by way of dynamic "movies" of the response of the system in question. MATLAB tools are used throughout and the software...

3+1 Formalism in General Relativity: Bases of Numerical Relativity (Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 846)

Springer, 2012

This graduate-level, course-based text is devoted to the 3+1 formalism of general relativity, which also constitutes the theoretical foundations of numerical relativity. The book starts by establishing the mathematical background (differential geometry, hypersurfaces embedded in space-time, foliation of space-time by a family of space-like...

Astronomy Demystified (Demystified)

McGraw-Hill, 2002

This book is for people who want to learn basic astronomy without taking a formal course. It also can serve as a supplemental text in a classroom, tutored, or home-schooling environment. I recommend that you start at the beginning of this book and go straight through.

In this book, we’ll go on a few “mind...

String Theory For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

Why are scientists so excited about string theory? Because string theory is the most likely candidate for a successful theory of quantum gravity — a theory that scientists hope will unite two major physical laws of the universe into one. Right now, these laws (quantum physics and general relativity) describe two totally different types...

Effective Field Approach to Phase Transitions And Some Applications to Ferroelectrics (World Scintific Lecture Notes in Physics)

World Scientific Publishing, 2006

The effective field approach to a phase transition, used by Pierre Weiss at the beginning of this century to describe theoretically ferromagnetic transitions in iron, nickel, and cobalt, is the second oldest (surpassed in this respect only by Van der Waals theory of liquid-vapor transitions) and certainly the simplest approach...

A First Course in String Theory

Cambridge University Press, 2004

An accessible introduction to string theory, this book provides a detailed and self-contained demonstration of the main concepts involved. The first part deals with basic ideas, reviewing special relativity and electromagnetism while introducing the concept of extra dimensions. D-branes and the classical dynamics of relativistic strings are...

The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries in Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

Oxford University Press, 2009

Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. Together, they formed a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the...

Foundations of Modern Cosmology

Oxford University Press, 2005

Recent discoveries in astronomy, especially those made with data collected by satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, have revolutionized the science of cosmology. These new observations offer the possibility that some long-standing mysteries in cosmology might be answered, including such...

Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)

Springer, 2013

"Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks" is the outcome of the authors' long and varied teaching experience in different countries and for different audiences, and gives an accessible and eminently readable introduction to all the main ideas of modern physics. The book’s fresh approach, using a novel...

Introduction to 2-Spinors in General Relativity

World Scientific Publishing, 2003

... useful for those who are working with the two-spinor formalism and/or are interested in the Lanczos theory. -- General Relativity and Gravitation

This book deals with 2-spinors in general relativity, beginning by developing spinors in a geometrical way rather than using representation theory, which can be a little...

Quantum Physics: A Text for Graduate Students

Springer, 2002

This text develops quantum theory from its basic assumptions, beginning with statics, followed by dynamics and details of applications and the needed computational techniques. The discussion is based on the view that the fundamental entities of the universe are not particles but fields, with the observed particles arising as their quanta. Quantum...

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