02004cam a2200277 i 4500991003597829707536190128s2017 nju 000 0 eng d9780691159027b14357641-39ule_inst53023LC QC21.353.1.4Thorne, Kip S.40401Modern classical physics :optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics /Kip S. Thorne and Roger D. BlandfordPrinceton, New Jersey :Princeton University Press,[2017]xl, 1511 pages :illustrations ;27 cmIncludes bibliographical references and indexesPreface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Foundations. Newtonian physics : geometric viewpoint ; Special relativity : geometric viewpoint -- Part II. Statistical phpysics. Kinetic theory ; Statistical mechanics ; Statistical thermodynamics ; Random processes -- Part III. Optics. Geometric optics ; Diffraction ; Interference and coherence ; Nonlinear optics ; Elastostatics ; Elastodynamics -- Part V. Fluid dynamics. Foundations of fluid dynamics ; Vorticity ; Turbulence ; Waves ; Compressible and supersonic flow ; Convection ; Magnetohydrodynamics -- Part VI. Plasma physics. The particle kinetics of plasma ; Waves in cold plasmas : two-fluid formalism ; Kinetic theory of warm plasmas ; Nonlinear dynamics of plasmas -- Part VII. General relativity. From special to general relativity ; Fundamental concepts of general relativity ; Relativistic stars and black holes ; Gravitational waves and experimental tests of general relativity ; CosmologyPhysicsBlandford, Roger D..b1435764109-03-2228-01-19991003597829707536LE006 53.1.4 THO12006000103725le006pE109.09-l- 00000.i1588092804-03-19Modern classical physics1749525UNISALENTOle00628-01-19ma eng 00