Autore	Zaibun Nissa Siraj
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore ; ; New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2008
Descrizione fisica	ix, 105 p
Disciplina	152.4/2
Soggetto topico	Happiness Joy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-93428-3 9786611934286 981-279-351-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Happiness Is a Serious Matter; What Is Happiness; Be Zany; Apply Zeal; Have Zest; Put Zing into Your Life.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453175603321

Autore	Lam Harry C. S
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (247 p.)
Disciplina	523.1
Soggetto topico	Cosmology Zen Buddhism Zen Buddhism and science
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-91183-6 9786611911836 981-277-187-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Out of Emptiness; Chapter 2 Sakyamuni Buddha; Chapter 3 A Flower and a Smile; Chapter 4 Hui Neng; Chapter 5 The Platform Sutra; Chapter 6 Prologue to Our Universe; Chapter 7 Does the Universe Have a Beginning; Chapter 8 Size and Shape of the Universe; Chapter 9 Scale Factor and Redshift; Chapter 10 The Constituents of the Universe; Chapter 11 What is Matter; Chapter 12 Different Kinds of Energy; Kinetic Energy; Potential Energy; Rest Energy; Nuclear Energy; Dark Energy and Vacuum Energy; Chapter 13 Heat and Temperature; Chapter 14 The Noisy Universe Chapter 15 A Short History of the UniverseChapter 16 Inflation; The Flatness Problem; The Horizon Problem; Chapter 17 Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation; Quantum Fluctuation; Acoustic Oscillation; Sound in an Expanding Universe; Power Spectrum; The Frozen Sound Pattern; Photon Fluid Approximation; The Effect of Matter; Matter Oscillation; Polarizations; Evidence for Inflation; Chapter 18 Emergence of Matter; The Difficulty of Having Enough Matter in Our Universe; The Standard Model; Fermions; Gauge Bosons; C,P,T Operations; Higgs Bosons; Elementary Particles; Fermion Masses; Neutrinos SphaleronThe Sakharov Conditions; The First Condition; The Second Condition; The Third Condition; Leptogenesis; A Summary of the Mechanism; Details of the Mechanism; Chapter 19 Syntheses of Chemical Elements; Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN); Fusion in Stars; Supernova Explosion; Chapter 20 Epilogue; Appendix A Endnotes; Appendix B Abbreviations and Mathematical Symbols; Appendix C Important Events after Reheating; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450694903321

Autore	Rowlands Peter
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (738 p.)
Disciplina	530
Collana	K & E series on knots and everything
Soggetto topico	Physics Mathematical physics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-91873-3 9786611918736 981-270-915-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; 1. Zero; 1.1 An Origin for Everything; 1.2 The Genesis of Number; 1.3 The Genesis of Algebra; 1.4 Group Representations; 1.5 Rewriting Nature; 1.6 Quaternions and Vectors; 2. Why Does Physics Work?; 2.1 A Foundational Level; 2.2 The Origin of Abstraction; 2.3 Symmetry; 2.4 The Meaning of the Conservation Laws; 2.5 The Mathematical Structure of Physical Quantities; 2.6 Where Does Dimensionality Come From?; 2.7 A Group of Order 4; 2.8 Noether's Theorem Revisited; 2.9 Analytic Versus Synthetic; 2.10 The Power of Analogy; 2.11 The Nature of Reality; 3. The Emergence of Physics 3.1 The Mathematical Character of Physics; 3.2 The Algebra of Space, Time, Mass and Charge; 3.3 The Dirac Algebra; 3.4 The Creation of the Dirac State; 3.5 The Nilpotent Dirac Equation; 3.6 Uniqueness, Qubits and Quantum Computing; 3.7 The Completeness of Mathematical Physics; 3.8 Theoretical Computation; 4. Groups and Representations; 4.1 The Dirac Equation and Quantum Field Theory; 4.2 Reversals of Properties; 4.3 The Dual Group and Higher Symmetries; 4.4 A Broken Octonion; 4.5 A Hierarchy of Dualities; 4.6 Dimensionality; 4.7 Symmetry Hierarchy; 4.8 Colour Representation 4.9 3-D (Vector) Representation; 4.10 Tetrahedral Representation; 5. Breaking the Dirac Code; 5.1 Singularities and Redundancy; 5.2 Redundancy in the Dirac Equation; 5.3 Defragmenting the Dirac Equation; 5.4 The Dirac 4-Spinor; 5.5 The 4-Component Differential Operator; 5.6 C-Linear Maps and Lifts; 5.7 The Quaternion Form Derived from a Matrix Representation; 5.8 Bilinear Covariants and the Dirac Lagrangian; 5.9 Removing Redundancies in Relativistic Quantum; 5.10 Orthonormality of the Nilpotent Solutions of the Dirac Equation; 6. The Dirac Nilpotent; 6.1 Spin; 6.2 Helicity 6.3 Fermions and Bosons; 6.4 Vacuum; 6.5 CPT Symmetry; 6.6 Baryons; 6.7 Gluons and Exotic States; 6.8 Parities of Bosons and Baryons; 6.9 Supersymmetry and Renormalization; 6.10 Annihilation and Creation Operators; 6.11 The Quantum Field; 6.12 The Nilpotent State; 6.13 Nonlocality; 6.14 BRST Quantization; 7. Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics and the Classical Transition; 7.1 The Bispinor Form of the Dirac Equation; 7.2 The Schrödinger Approximation; 7.3 The Heisenberg Formulation of Quantum Mechanics; 7.4 Heisenberg v. Schrödinger; 7.5 The Quantum-Classical Transition; 7.6 The Classical Limit 7.7 The Dirac Nilpotent Using Discrete Differentiation; 7.8 Idempotent and Nilpotent Versions of Quantum Mechanics; 7.9 A Fundamental Quantum Mechanical Duality; 8. The Classical and Special Relativistic Approximations; 8.1 Linear Versus Orbital Dynamics; 8.2 Scaling Relations; 8.3 Special Relativity; 8.4 The Significance of the Proper Time; 8.5 The Nature of Classical Physics; 8.6 Constructed Quantities; 8.7 Classical Mechanics; 8.8 Classical Electromagnetic Theory; 9. The Resolution of Paradoxes; 9.1 Paradoxes Relating to Conservation and Nonconservation 9.2 Paradoxes Relating to Continuity and Discontinuity
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451357803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore [etc.] : World Scientific, copyr. 1994
Descrizione fisica	XIV, 319 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Disciplina	530155
Soggetto non controllato	analisi funzionale Fisica matematica funzioni z
ISBN	981-02-1441-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISA-990000271100203316