The Versatile Soliton
Seiten
2010
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1st ed. 2000. 2nd printing. 2010
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8176-4973-9 (ISBN)
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8176-4973-9 (ISBN)
In this engaging book, the concept of the soliton is traced from the beginning of the last century to modern times, with recent applications in biology, oceanography, solid state physics, electronics, elementary particle physics, and cosmology.
If you have not already heard about solitons, you will sooner or later
encounter them.
The soliton, a solitary wave impulse preserving its shape and
strikingly similar to a particle, is one of the most fascinating and
beautiful phenomena in the physics of nonlinear waves. In this
engaging book, the concept of the soliton is traced from the beginning
of the last century to modern times, with recent applications in
biology, oceanography, solid state physics, electronics, elementary
particle physics, and cosmology.
The main concepts and results of theoretical physics related to
solitons can be explained without using much mathematics. Indeed, on
the descriptive and historical level, only some knowledge of high
school physics and mathematics is needed. At a higher level, for
understanding the elementary theory of oscillations and waves, the
reader can intuit much from the numerous illustrations and perhaps
skip the formulas presented. But to appreciate the deep connections
in this book between apparently different and diverse phenomena and
ideas, the reader must be able to follow elementary mathematical
computations. Still more advanced mathematics is required for the
appendices.
If you have not already heard about solitons, you will sooner or later
encounter them.
The soliton, a solitary wave impulse preserving its shape and
strikingly similar to a particle, is one of the most fascinating and
beautiful phenomena in the physics of nonlinear waves. In this
engaging book, the concept of the soliton is traced from the beginning
of the last century to modern times, with recent applications in
biology, oceanography, solid state physics, electronics, elementary
particle physics, and cosmology.
The main concepts and results of theoretical physics related to
solitons can be explained without using much mathematics. Indeed, on
the descriptive and historical level, only some knowledge of high
school physics and mathematics is needed. At a higher level, for
understanding the elementary theory of oscillations and waves, the
reader can intuit much from the numerous illustrations and perhaps
skip the formulas presented. But to appreciate the deep connections
in this book between apparently different and diverse phenomena and
ideas, the reader must be able to follow elementary mathematical
computations. Still more advanced mathematics is required for the
appendices.
An Early History of the Soliton.- A Century and a Half Ago.- The Great Solitary Wave of John Scott Russell.- Relatives of the Soliton.- Nonlinear Oscillations and Waves.- A Portrait of the Pendulum.- From Pendulum to Waves and Solitons.- The Present and Future of the Soliton.- Frenkel’s Solitons.- Rebirth of the Soliton.- Modern Solitons.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.5.2010 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Modern Birkhäuser Classics |
| Zusatzinfo | 77 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 261 p. 77 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Secaucus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8176-4973-5 / 0817649735 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8176-4973-9 / 9780817649739 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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