College Physics, Topics in the Frontiers of Contemporary Physics

Author: Cai Shu
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: "University Physics: Topics in Contemporary Physics (2nd Edition)" is published by Higher Education Press. The book is written by more than ten renowned physicists from home and abroad, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang and Zhu Weigang. Through 10 topics and 11 articles, it presents major issues, achievements, and developments in the forefront of contemporary physics to readers, covering areas such as superconductivity, space physics, chaos phenomena, nonlinear non-equilibrium self-organization, biophysics, and more. The content is novel, well-organized, and fluently written. This book can be used by instructors to teach physics seminars for students in various science and engineering disciplines, or as supplementary reading material for students.