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The 1952 Nobel physics laureate Felix Bloch (1905-83) was one of the titans of twentieth-century physics. He laid the fundamentals for the theory of solids and has been called the "father of solid-state physics." His numerous, valuable contributions include the theory of magnetism, measurement of the magnetic moment of the neutron, nuclear magnetic resonance, and the infrared problem in quantum electrodynamics.

Statistical mechanics is a crucial subject which explores the understanding of the physical behaviour of many-body systems that create the world around us. Bloch's first-year graduate course at Stanford University was the highlight for several generations of students. Upon his retirement, he worked on a book based on the course. Unfortunately, at the time of his death, the writing was incomplete.

This book has been prepared by Professor John Dirk Walecka from Bloch's unfinished masterpiece. It also includes three sets of Bloch's handwritten lecture notes (dating from 1949, 1969 and 1976), and details of lecture notes taken in 1976 by Brian Serot, who gave an invaluable opinion of the course from a student's perspective. All of Bloch's problem sets, some dating back to 1933, have been included.

The book is accessible to anyone in the physical sciences at the advanced undergraduate level or the first-year graduate level. ... Read more

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beautifully presented self-contained treatment
This is perhaps my favorite book on statistical mechanics. Bloch's exposition is self-contained, starting from fundamental concepts. The emphasis is on concepts. The presentation is concise and elegant, relying on mathematics rather than words to present the theory. Highly recommended to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jewish Swiss History, Swiss Jews, Synagogues in Switzerland, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Felix Bloch, Ruth Dreifuss, Ludwig Von Mises, Switzerland During the World Wars, Biala, Alain de Botton, Robert Frank, Ernest Bloch, World Jewish Congress Lawsuit Against Swiss Banks, Maurice Abravanel, Alexis Von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, Madeleine M. Kunin, Kastner Train, Georges Brunschvig, Edmond H. Fischer, History of the Jews in Switzerland, David Frankfurter, Jean Starobinski, Tadeus Reichstein, Albert Cohen, Rolf Liebermann, Rosa Rein, Jacqui Safra, Méret Oppenheim, Martin Rhonheimer, Gerard Wertheimer, Meyer Guggenheim, Léopold Szondi, Kosov, Nessim Gaon, Dani Levy, Jakob Klatzkin, Jan Heller Levi, Marcel Grossmann, Al Dubin, Michele Besso, Charles Weissmann, Jean Dunand, Pinkas Braun, Roger Schawinski, Hekhal Haness Synagogue, Paul Parin, Arthur Cohn, Basel Massacre, Regina Ullmann, Avraham Yaakov Finkel, Josué Jéhouda, Yakov Snyders. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 228. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which ex...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Chapters: Albert Einstein, Henry Dunant, Felix Bloch, Richard R. Ernst, Emil Theodor Kocher, Élie Ducommun, International Committee of the Red Cross, Vladimir Prelog, Alfred Werner, Karl Alexander Müller, Werner Arber, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Edmond H. Fischer, Charles Albert Gobat, Carl Spitteler, Paul Karrer, Kurt Wüthrich, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Tadeus Reichstein, Heinrich Rohrer, Paul Hermann Müller, Walter Rudolf Hess. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 139. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules, the photon theory and wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the semiclassical version of the Schrödinger equation, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted BoseEinstein condensation. Einstein published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works. Einstein additionally wrote and commentated prolifically on numerous philosophical and political subjects. Einstein at the age of 4. His father sh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Chapters: Albert Einstein, Louis Agassiz, Felix Bloch, Othmar Ammann, Otto Frederick Hunziker, Albert Gallatin, Robert Frank, Christoph Meili, Henry Wirz, Phil Dalhausser, Madeleine M. Kunin, Stefan Frei, Eliana Benador, Louis Chevrolet, Robert Julius Trumpler, Theodore Wirth, Edward L. Berthoud, John Bernhard, Hermann Lieb, Sebastian Gebhard Messmer, Martin Buser, John Hafen, Renata Von Tscharner, John Ulric Nef, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, John Bachmann, Florian Cajori, Silvia Spross, Otto Hess, Mark Lutz, Fernand Auberjonois, Roger Duvoisin, Louis Demartin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 169. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules, the photon theory and wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the semiclassical version of the Schrödinger equation, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted BoseEinstein condensation. Einstein published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works. Einstein...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Albert Einstein, John Von Neumann, Georg Cantor, Wernher Von Braun, Niklaus Wirth, Wilhelm Röntgen, Felix Bloch, Othmar Ammann, Richard R. Ernst, Auguste Piccard, Carlos Kleiber, Fritz Haber, Rudolf Clausius, Fritz Zwicky, Mileva Marić, Santiago Calatrava, Philippe Kahn, Bernard Tschumi, Carl Von Linde, Max Frisch, Simon Ammann, Karl Alexander Müller, Werner Arber, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Justus Dahinden, Konstantin Jovanović, Christian Menn, Hermann Müller, Hans Albert Einstein, Johannes Georg Bednorz, Armand Borel, Paul Scherrer, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Tadeus Reichstein, James J. Stoker, Michel Kervaire, Hans Frauenfelder, Nils Claus Ihlen, Preda Mihăilescu, Eduard Imhof, Henry Brunner, Duilio Arigoni, Heinrich Rohrer, Urs Hoelzle, Alfred Ilg, Maurice Koechlin, Corine Mauch, Rudolf Trümpy, Marcel Grossmann, Schak Bull, Jakob Ackeret, Richard Meyer, Åse Aulie Michelet, Gottfried Ungerboeck, Katrin Wehrheim, Xuejia Lai, Jean-Pierre Sydler, Ernst Specker, Karl Moser, Matteo Cheda. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluct...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Chapters: Felix Bloch, Carlo Rubbia, Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Compact Muon Solenoid, Overview and Differences of 1964 Prl Symmetry Breaking Papers, Willibald Jentschke, Particle Physics Experiments, Antiproton Decelerator, Riazuddin National Center for Physics, Large Electron-positron Collider, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, a Large Ion Collider Experiment, Archana Sharma, Na61/shine, Lhcb, Super Proton Synchrotron, Fast and Realistic Opengl Displayer, Cloud, Na62 Experiment, Witch Experiment, Na48 Experiment, Lhcf, Delphi Experiment, Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Gargamelle, Edoardo Amaldi, Cern Axion Solar Telescope, Intersecting Storage Rings, Isoltrap, Alien, Microcosm, Compass Experiment, Ps210 Experiment, Totem, Compact Linear Collider, Robert Aymar, Na49 Experiment, Ua1 Experiment, Jasper Kirkby, Herwig Schopper, On-Line Isotope Mass Separator, Ua2 Experiment, Low Energy Antiproton Ring, Proton Synchrotron Booster, List of Directors General of Cern, European Muon Collaboration, Big European Bubble Chamber, Na60 Experiment, Cdhs Experiment, Openlab, Aleph Experiment, L3, Opal Detector. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: ), known as CERN (see History), pronounced (French pronunciation: ), is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the FrancoSwiss border ( ), established in 1954. The organization has twenty European member states, and is currently the workplace of approximately 2,600 full-time employees, as well as some 7,931 scientists and engineers (representing 580 universities and research facilities and 80 nationalities). CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=37351 ... Read more

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The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about "a great fall,"the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simplydocumentary or elegiac. What interests Chana Bloch is the inner life:how we are formed by our losses and our parents' losses, how we learnwhat we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how wedeny and delay and finally discover who we are.

"I was spellbound by Mrs. Dumpty. Chana Bloch deals with themost agonizing personal experience with hair-raising honesty and,always, unwavering control. Her command of metaphor is absolutelyauthoritative. . . . Mrs. Dumpty isn't a comforting book, but Iadmire the speaker's rare ability to step outside herself, to look atherself and her situation with harrowing candor, wit, hard-won wisdom,deep feeling. The supply of forceful metaphor seems inexhaustible, thelanguage sounds like a living voice. This is a stunningcollection."-X. J. Kennedy

"Chana Bloch's Mrs. Dumpty is an exceptionally strong book. Themore powerful the words, the more piercing the images, the deeper thehealing. That is what real poetry can do. And that is whatMrs. Dumpty succeeds in doing: healing with words, making thislife livable."-Yehuda Amichai

"Whether searing or celebratory, ironic and analytic or rueful andreproachful, Chana Bloch's bitterly honest poems are as beautifullycadenced as they are poignantly frank. This intimate portrait of amarriage becomes also a history of lives in motion and thus a movingtale of chance, change, and survival. For even while Bloch offers us achronicle of pain, she demonstrates that 'the end of safety' is thebeginning of revelation and transformation, as 'Lightning flares atthe windows / zinc-white' in a 'wind that can drive / a nail through atree trunk.'"-Sandra Gilbert ... Read more

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Well written and consistent
This book of poems by Chana Bloch (Hah-nuh Block) is an excellent insight into the mind of a woman whose husband slowly contracted mental disease.The poems all center around this topic--being the wife a mentally ill man and the impact in had on her emotional well-being.The majority of the poems are stories told from her marriage and fall in chronological order.

Ms. Bloch is a master of metaphor and it is fun to try and interpret what she was thinking and picturing in her mind as she wrote these poems.The only downer is that there are only about 60 pages of material, but definitely one to check out. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more