[pdf] Physics: Principles With Applications

This book provides the principles of continuous wave and pulsed ESR techniques and illustrates the applications at a level that is accessible to masters and doctoral students as well as to scientists in physical chemistry/chemical physics, catalysis and environmental sciences, polymer science, free radical chemistry in bio-chemistry and medicine, materials science, radiation dosimetry and dating, as well as radiation physics and chemistry.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics. It is divided into four parts, the first of which equips readers with a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics of equilibrium states and of their evolution. The second part applies these principles to a series of generalized situations, presenting applications that are of interest both in their own right and in terms of demonstrating how thermodynamics, as a theory of principle, relates to different fields.

Intended for a two semester advanced undergraduate or graduate course in Solid State Physics, this treatment offers modern coverage of the theory and related experiments, including the group theoretical approach to band structures, Moessbauer recoil free fraction, semi-classical electron theory, magnetoconductivity, electron self-energy and Landau theory of Fermi liquid, and both quantum and fractional quantum Hall effects.