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Volumes written or co-written by MSU P-A authors


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The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics: A Primer for the LHC Era
John Campbell, Joey Huston, and Frank Krauss

Hardcover; 768 pages; (Dec 2017)
Oxford University Press;
ISBN13: 978-0-199-65274-7

[Publisher's website] [Amazon.com]


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Femtosecond Laser Shaping: From Laboratory to Industry
Marcos Dantus

Hardcover & eBook formats; 106 pages; (Aug 2017)
CRC Press (Optical Sciences and Applications of Light series);
ISBN13 (Hardcover): 978-1-498-76246-5
ISBN13 (eBook): 978-1-315-15338-4

[Publisher's website] [Amazon.com]


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Pulsating Stars
Márcio Catelan, Horace A. Smith

Hardcover & eBook formats: 472 pages; (March 2015)
Wiley-VCH;
ISBN13 (Hardcover): 978-3-527-40715-6
ISBN13 (eBook): 978-3-527-65520-5

[Publisher's website] [Amazon.com]


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An Introduction to Beam Physics
Martin Berz, Kyoko Makino and Weishi Wan

Hardcover & eBook formats: 324 pages; (December 2014)
CRC Press;
ISBN13 (Hardcover): 978-0-7503-0263-0
ISBN13 (eBook): 978-1-4200-1182-1

Part of CRC Press's Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation.
[Publisher's website] [Amazon.com]


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Guide Through the Nanocarbon Jungle: Buckyballs, nanotubes, graphene and beyond
David Tománek

Paperback & eBook formats: 106 pages; (February 2014)
Morgan & Claypool Publishers;
ISBN13 (Hardcover): 978-1-627-05272-6
ISBN13 (eBook): 978-1-627-05273-3

An IOPScience Concise Physics Book
[Publisher's website] [IOPScience website]


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Principles of Musical Acoustics
William M. Hartmann

Softcover & eBook formats: 348 pages; (July 2013)
Springer;
ISBN13 (Softcover): 978-1-4614-6785-4
ISBN13 (eBook): 978-1-4614-6786-1

Part of Springer's Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics series.
[Publisher's website] [Amazon.com]


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University Physics with Modern Physics
Wolfgang Bauer and Gary D. Westfall

Hardcover: 1536 pages; 2nd edition (January 2013)
McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math;
ISBN: 978-0-07-351388-1

Introductory physics textbook. (New edition)


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Quantum Physics
Vladimir Zelevinsky

Two-volume set
Paperback: 1196 pages; 1st edition (2011)
Wiley-VCH; ISBN: 978-3-52-741057-6

Volume 1: From Basics to Symmetries and Perturbations
Paperback: 616 pages; 1st edition (2011)
Wiley-VCH; ISBN: 978-3-52-740979-2

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Volume 2: From Time-Dependent Dynamics to Many-Body Physics and Quantum Chaos
Paperback: 580 pages; 1st edition (2011)
Wiley-VCH; ISBN: 978-3-52-740984-6

 

Textbooks for full-year quantum physics course.

 


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University Physics with Modern Physics
Wolfgang Bauer and Gary D. Westfall

Hardcover: 1376 pages; 1st edition (2010)
McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 978-0-07-285736-6

Introductory physics textbook.

 


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Essential Cosmic Perspective
Jeffrey Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, and Mark Voit

Paperback: 550 pages; 4th edition (2007)
Addison-Wesley Publishing; ISBN-13: 978-0805393927

Introductory astronomy textbook.

 


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The Cosmic Perspective
Jeffrey Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, and Mark Voit

Paperback: 736 pages; 4th edition/Media Update (2006)
Addison-Wesley Publishing; ISBN-13: 978-0805366474

Introductory astronomy textbook.

 


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Physics 2 for Scientists and Engineers
Wolfgang Bauer and Gary Westfall

Softcover: (3rd ed., 2008)
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-723150-3 or 978-0-07-723150-7

Softcover: 377 pages (2nd ed., 2005)
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-321590-2 or 978-0-07-321590-7

 


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Physics 1 for Scientists and Engineers
Wolfgang Bauer and Gary Westfall

Softcover: (3rd ed., 2008)
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-723149-X or 978-0-07-723149-1

Softcover: 476 pages (2nd ed., 2005)
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-321589-9

Freshman-level textbook.

 


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Introduction to Nuclear Reactions
Carlos Bertulani and Pawel Danielewicz

Hardcover: 550 pages (2004)
IOP Publishing, London
ISBN: 0750309326

Textbook for graduate students in nuclear and particle physics.

 


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Underneath the Bragg Peaks : Structural Analysis of Complex Materials (Pergamon Materials Series, V. 7)
Takeshi Egami and Simon J. L. Billinge

Hardcover: 500 pages (2003)
Pergamon
ISBN: 0080426980

Introduction and reference book about local atomic structure analysis using advanced x-ray and neutron scattering methods.

 


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Handbook of Physics
Walter Benenson, John Harris, Horst Stöcker, and Holger Lutz

Hardcover - 1248 pages (2002)
Springer Verlag; ISBN: 0387952691

Introductory physics textbook and reference volume.

 


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Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
Vladimir Zelevinsky

Hardcover - 499 pages 2nd edition (2002)
Siberian University Press, Novosibirsk; ISBN 5-94087-021-X

Advanced course of quantum mechanics with many practical topics, taken mainly from atomic and nuclear physics. The course includes quantum radiation theory and principles of relativistic quantum mechanics. (language: Russian).

 


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Introduction to Nuclear Physics
Carlos A Bertulani and Helio Schechter

Hardcover - 322 pages 1st edition (2002)
Nova Science Publishers; ISBN 1-59033-358-6

A comprehensive introduction to basic nuclear physics, including nuclear decays and reactions and nuclear structure. Designed to provide a core of material for students with minimal background in mathematics or quantum theory..

 


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Physics of Radioactive Beams
C.A. Bertulani, M.S. Hussein, and G. Münzenberg

Hardcover - 437 pages 1st edition (2002)
Nova Science Publishers; ISBN 1-59033-141-9

An introduction to the emerging physics of rare nuclear isotopes. A textbook on theoretical and experimental methods used to describe the structure and reactions with radioactive nuclear beams.

 


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Electromagnetism
Gerald Pollack and Daniel R. Stump

Hardcover - 680 pages 1st edition (2001)
Addison-Wesley Pub Co (Net); ISBN: 0805385673

Junior-level textbook on electromagnetism with modern applications.

 


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cliXX Physik
Wolfgang Bauer, Walter Benenson,
and Gary Westfall

Jewelbox, CD-ROM, 2nd edition (1999)
Verlag Harri Deutsch (Frankfurt, Germany); ISBN: 3-8171-1593-8

Complete algebra level introductory physics course with interactive exercises, java applets, movies, and simulations (language: German).
[link to Publisher's web site]

 


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Modern Map Methods in Particle Beam Physics
Martin Berz

Hardcover (1999)
Academic Press, San Diego; ISBN 0-12-014750-5

 


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Globular Cluster Systems
(Cambridge Astrophysics Series, No 30)
Keith M. Ashman and Stephen E. Zepf

Hardcover - 210 pages (1998)
Cambridge Univ. Press; ISBN: 0521550572

This volume presents the first comprehensive review of globular cluster systems. It summarises their observed properties, and shows how these constrain models of the structure of stars, the formation and evolution of galaxies and globular clusters, and the age of the Universe.
[link to Publisher's web site]

 


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Signals, Sound, and Sensation
(Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing)
William M. Hartmann

Hardcover - 647 pages (1996)
Springer Verlag; ISBN: 1563962837

A textbook for a second course in psychoacoustics, the study of how a physical sound as described mathematically is transformed into the perception of sound as registered by a listener.

 


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RR Lyrae Stars
(Cambridge Astrophysics Series, No 27)
Horace A. Smith

Hardcover (1995)
Cambridge Univ. Press; ISBN: 0521321808

An introduction to RR Lyrae variable stars emphasizing their use as standard candles, as probes of galactic structure, and as tests of stellar evolution theory.

 


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Group Theory in Physics
Wu-Ki Tung

World Scientific Publishing Co., 336pp (1985)
Hardcover ISBN 9971-966-56-5
Paperback ISBN 9971-966-57-3

An introductory text book for graduates and advanced undergraduates on group representation theory. It emphasizes group theory's role as the mathematical framework for describing symmetry properties of classical and quantum mechanical systems.
[link to Publisher's web site]