Cambridge's respected physics list seeks to combine an innovative and cutting edge approach with the highest standards of scholarship, writing and production across the whole range of the discipline. This encompasses everything from academic monographs to student textbooks and professional handbooks. We aim to reflect the latest developments in research, and also to provide materials for graduate and undergraduate students.

Physics publishing at Cambridge started in 1703 with the publication of the second edition of Newton's Principia, and has continued to the present day through the publication of many influential physicists, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Erwin Schrödinger, Gerard 't Hooft, Martinus Veltman, Steven Weinberg, Emil Wolf, John Schwarz, Ed Witten, Michael Green, Stephen Hawking and many others.

Professional, Popular, Literary

Nicholas Russell

In recent years governments and scientific establishments have been encouraging the development of professional and popular science communication.

John H. Moore, Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. Coplan, Sandra C. Greer

Unrivaled in its coverage and unique in its hands-on approach, this practical guide to the design and construction of scientific apparatus, or laboratory instruments, is essential reading for every scientist and student of engineering, and physical, chemical, and biological sciences.

For the Twenty-First Century

Gordon Fraser

Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions.

Curt Suplee

Plasma physics is the fascinating science behind lightning bolts, fluorescent lights, solar flares, ultra-bright TV screens, fusion reactors, cosmic jets and black hole radiation, to name but a few examples.

Jerry B. Griffiths, Jiri Podolsky

Einstein’s theory of general relativity is a theory of gravity and, as in the earlier Newtonian theory, much can be learned about the character of gravitation and its effects by investigating particular idealized examples.

Hans Stephani, Dietrich Kramer, Malcolm MacCallum, Cornelius Hoenselaers, Eduard Herlt

A completely revised and updated edition of this classic text, covering important new methods and many recently discovered solutions.

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$90.00 (Z)

Belal E. Baaquie

The economic crisis of 2008 has shown that the capital markets need new theoretical and mathematical concepts to describe and price financial instruments.

David P. Landau, Kurt Binder

Dealing with all aspects of Monte Carlo simulation of complex physical systems encountered in condensed-matter physics and statistical mechanics, this book provides an introduction to computer simulations in physics.

Piotr Jaranowski, Andrzej Krolak

Research in this field has grown considerably in recent years due to the commissioning of a world-wide network of large-scale detectors.

Celebrating Stephen Hawking's Contributions to Physics

Edited by G. W. Gibbons, E. P. S. Shellard, S. J. Rankin

Based on lectures given in honor of Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday, this book comprises contributions from the world's leading theoretical physicists.

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$55.00 (Z)

Quantized Fields and Gravity

Leonard Parker, David Toms

This book develops quantum field theory in curved spacetime in a pedagogical style, suitable for graduate students.

David K. Ferry, Stephen M. Goodnick, Jonathan Bird

The advent of semiconductor structures whose characteristic dimensions are smaller than the mean free path of carriers has led to the development of novel devices, and advances in theoretical understanding of mesoscopic systems or nanostructures.

Bernard Carr

Recent developments in cosmology and particle physics, such as the string landscape picture, have led to the remarkable realization that our universe - rather than being unique - could be just one of many universes.

Inverse-Square Interaction Models

Yoshio Kuramoto, Yusuke Kato

One-dimensional quantum systems show fascinating properties beyond the scope of the mean-field approximation.

Robert N. Cahn, Gerson Goldhaber

Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments.

The Deformation and Flow of Matter

Patrick Oswald

This book addresses problems involving the flow of matter, covering the main aspects of the mechanical response of fluids and solids to applied stress or strain.

A Guided Tour for Graduate Students

Michael Stone, Paul Goldbart

An engagingly-written account of mathematical tools and ideas, this book provides a graduate-level introduction to the mathematics used in research in physics.

Michael Cross, Henry Greenside

Many exciting frontiers of science and engineering require understanding the spatiotemporal properties of sustained nonequilibrium systems such as fluids, plasmas, reacting and diffusing chemicals, crystals solidifying from a melt, heart muscle, and networks of excitable neurons in brains.

Principles, Calculation and Applications of Low-Energy Reactions

Ian J. Thompson, Filomena M. Nunes

Describing the processes in stars which produce the chemical elements for planets and life, this book shows how similar processes may be reproduced in laboratories using exotic beams, and how these results can be analyzed.

Lewis Ryder

A student-friendly style, over 100 illustrations, and numerous exercises are brought together in this textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics and mathematics.