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A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip
W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most
accomplished and influential physicists of the second half of the
twentieth century. Anderson (1923-2020) was a theoretician who
specialized in the physics of matter, including window glass and
metals, magnets and semiconductors, liquid crystals and
superconductors. More than any other single person, Anderson
transformed the patchwork subject of solid-state physics into the
deep, subtle, and coherent discipline known today as condensed
matter physics. Among his many world-class research achievements,
Anderson discovered an aspect of wave physics that had been missed
by all previous scientists going back to Isaac Newton. He became a
public figure when he testified before Congress to oppose its
funding of an expensive project intended exclusively for particle
physics research. Over the years, he published many articles
designed to influence a broad audience about issues where science
impacted public policy and culture. Anderson grew up in the
American mid-west, was educated at Harvard, and rose to the
pinnacle of his profession during the first decade of his
thirty-five career as a theoretical physicist at Bell Telephone
Laboratories. Almost uniquely, he spent many years working
half-time as a professor at the University of Cambridge and at
Princeton University. The outspoken Anderson enjoyed broad
influence outside of physics when he helped develop and champion
the concepts of emergence and complexity as organizing principles
to help attack very difficult problems in technically challenging
disciplines.
An engaging writing style and a strong focus on the physics make
this comprehensive, graduate-level textbook unique among existing
classical electromagnetism textbooks. Charged particles in vacuum
and the electrodynamics of continuous media are given equal
attention in discussions of electrostatics, magnetostatics,
quasistatics, conservation laws, wave propagation, radiation,
scattering, special relativity and field theory. Extensive use of
qualitative arguments similar to those used by working physicists
makes Modern Electrodynamics a must-have for every student of this
subject. In 24 chapters, the textbook covers many more topics than
can be presented in a typical two-semester course, making it easy
for instructors to tailor courses to their specific needs. Close to
120 worked examples and 80 applications boxes help the reader build
physical intuition and develop technical skill. Nearly 600
end-of-chapter homework problems encourage students to engage
actively with the material. A solutions manual is available for
instructors at www.cambridge.org/Zangwill.
Physics at Surfaces is a unique graduate-level introduction to the
physics and chemical physics of solid surfaces, and atoms and
molecules that interact with solid surfaces. A subject of keen
scientific inquiry since the last century, surface physics emerged
as an independent discipline only in the late 1960s as a result of
the development of ultra-high vacuum technology and high speed
digital computers. With these tools, reliable experimental
measurements and theoretical calculations could at last be
compared. Progress in the last decade has been truly striking. This
volume provides a synthesis of the entire field of surface physics
from the perspective of a modern condensed matter physicist with a
healthy interest in chemical physics. The exposition intertwines
experiment and theory whenever possible, although there is little
detailed discussion of technique. This much-needed text will be
invaluable to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter
physics, physical chemistry and materials science working in, or
taking graduate courses in, surface science.
Featuring 71 papers from the 1991 MRS Spring Meeting (April 29 -
May 3, Anaheim, California), this volume focuses on the rapidly
expanding scientific interest in growing materials with
fundamentally different crystal structures, one upon the other, to
achieve a wider range of available thin film materials and
heterostructures for novel thin film applications ranging from
magnetic recording to high Tc superconductors to novel
metal/semiconductor heterojunction devices. Topics discussed
include: novel heteroepitaxial systems; growth morphology; in situ
and ex situ characterization; epitaxial metastability; interfacial
phases and chemical effects; Si/Ge and III-V/Si; and strain
effects.
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