Странно, что нигде не обсуждают (и не рекомендуют) замечательную книгу, над которой уже очень давно трудится небезызвестный
Кип Торн вместе с
Роджером Блэндфордом.
Она готовится как приложение к курсу, читаемому в Калтехе Кипом Торном и др. с начала 1980-х годов.
Вот страничка курса на оф. сайте за текущий уч. год. До сих пор книга не издана в печатном виде (предполагается, что это будет сделано в 2012 году), но авторы уже давно (с начала 2000-х годов) выкладывают в общий доступ отдельные её главы как для студентов, которым читается этот курс, так и для всех остальных на свете. Книга насковзь пропитана геометрическим духом, которым (надеюсь) восхищались (восхищаются и будут восхищаться) все, кто читал (читают и будут читать) "Гравитацию" Мизнера, Торна, Уилера.
Вот сжатое (очень) описание книги, взятое из Предисловия:This book is an introduction to the fundamentals and 21st-century applications of all the major branches of classical physics except classical mechanics, electromagnetic theory, and elementary thermodynamics (which we assume the reader has already learned elsewhere).
Many of the most important recent developments in physics—and more generally in science and engineering—involve classical subjects such as optics, fluids, plasmas, random processes, and curved spacetime. Unfortunately, many young physicists today have little understanding these subjects and their applications. Our goal, in writing this book, is to rectify that. More specifically:
• We believe that every masters-level or PhD physicist should be familiar with the basic concepts of all the major branches of classical physics, and should have had some
experience in applying them to real-world phenomena; this book is designed to facilitate that.
• A large fraction of physics, astronomy and engineering graduate students in the United States and around the world use classical physics extensively in their research, and even
more of them go on to careers in which classical physics is an essential component; this book is designed to facilitate that research and those careers.Книга состоит из СЕМИ частей:(Оффтоп)
This book is divided into seven parts; see the Table of Contents:
I. Foundations — designed to teach all readers a powerful geometric point of view on the laws of physics (a viewpoint that we shall use throughout this book), and bring readers up to speed on some concepts and mathematical tools that we shall need. This Part is split into two chapters. The first deals with Newtonian Physics; the second, with Special Relativity. Since the vast majority of Parts II–VI is Newtonian, readers may choose to skip the Special Relativity chapter and the occasional special relativity sections of subsequent chapters, until they are ready to launch into Part VII, General Relativity.
II. Statistical physics — including kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, and the theory of random processes. These subjects underly some portions of the rest of the book, especially plasma physics and fluid mechanics. Among the applications we study are the statistical-theory computation of macroscopic properties of matter (equations of state, thermal and electric conductivity, viscosity, ...); phase transitions (boiling and condensation, melting and freezing, ...); the Ising model and renormalization group; chemical and nuclear reactions, e.g. in nuclear reactors; Bose-Einstein condensates; Olber’s Paradox in cosmology; the Greenhouse effect and its influence on the earth’s climate; noise and signal processing, the relationship between information and entropy; entropy in the expanding universe; and the entropy of black holes.
III. Optics — by which we mean classical waves of all sorts: light waves, radio waves, sound waves, water waves, waves in plasmas, and gravitational waves. The major concepts we develop for dealing with all these waves include geometrical optics, diffraction, interference, and nonlinear wave-wave mixing. Some of the applications we will meet
are gravitational lenses, caustics and catastrophes, Berry’s phase, phase-contrast microscopy, Fourier-transform spectroscopy, radio-telescope interferometry, gravitational wave interferometers, holography, frequency doubling and phase conjugation in nonlinear crystals, squeezed light, and how information is encoded on DVD’s and CD’s.
IV. Elasticity—elastic deformations, both static and dynamic, of solids. Here some of our applications are bifurcations of equilibria and bifurcation-triggered instabilities, stresspolishing of mirrors, mountain folding, buckling, seismology and seismic tomography.
V. Fluid Dynamics — with the fluids including, for example, air, water, blood, and interplanetary and interstellar gas. Some of the fluid concepts we study are vorticity, turbulence, boundary layers, subsonic and supersonic flows, convection, sound waves, shock waves and magnetohydrodynamics. Among our applications are the flow of blood
through constricted vessels, the dynamics of a high-speed spinning baseball, convection in stars, helioseismology, supernovae, nuclear explosions, sedimentation and nuclear
winter, the excitation of ocean waves by wind, salt fingers in the ocean, tornados and water spouts, the Sargasso Sea and the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean, nonlinear waves in fluids (solitons and their interactions), stellerators, tokamaks, and controlled thermonuclear fusion.
VI. Plasma Physics — with the plasmas including those in earth-bound laboratories and technological devices, the earth’s ionosphere, stellar interiors and coronae, and interplanetary and interstellar space. In addition to magnetohydrodynamics (treated in Part IV), we develop three other physical and mathematical descriptions of plasmas:
kinetic theory, two-fluid formalism, and quasi-linear theory which we express in the quantum language of weakly coupled plasmons and particles. Among our plasma applications are: some of the many types of waves (plasmons) that a plasma can support—both linear waves and nonlinear (soliton) waves; the influence of the earth’s ionosphere on radio-wave propagation; the wide range of plasma instabilities that have plagued the development of controlled thermonuclear fusion; and wave-particle (plasmon-electron and plasmon-ion) interactions, including the two-stream instability for fast coronal electrons in the solar wind, isotropization of cosmic rays via scattering by magnetosonic waves, and Landau damping of electrostatic waves.
VII. General Relativity — the physics of curved spacetime, including the laws by which mass-energy and momentum curve spacetime, and by which that curvature influences the motion of matter and inflluences the classical laws of physics (e.g., the laws of fluid mechanics, electromagntic fields, and optics). Here our applications include, among others, gravitational experiments on earth and in our solar system; relativistic stars and black holes, both spinning (Kerr) and nonspinning (Schwarzschild); the extraction of spin energy from black holes; interactions of black holes with surrounding and infalling matter; gravitational waves and their generation and detection; and the large
scale structure and evolution of the universe (cosmology), including the big bang, the inflationary era, and the modern era. Throughout, we emphasize the physical content of general relativity and the connection of the theory to experiment and observation.
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Please send comments, suggestions, and errata via email to kip <at> caltech.edu, or on paper to Kip Thorne, 350-17 Caltech, Pasadena CA 91125
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