Handbook of Physics

Walter Benenson is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University, and a nuclear physicist at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Benenson was the one of the first physicists to join NSCL founding Director Henry Blosser’s staff in 1963, and was science consultant on the 1991 program Exploring the Hidden Nucleus. His research on rare isotopes forms the basis for Michigan State’s worldwide reputation in the field.

From the Contents: I Mechanics: Kinematics.- Dynamics.- Rigid Bodies.- Micromechanics.- Gravitation and the Theory of Relativity.- Mechanics of Continuous Media.- Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Fractals.- Tables on Mechanics; II Vibrations and Waves: Vibrations.- Waves.- Acoustics.- Optics.- Tables on Vibrations, Waves, Acoustics, and Optics; III Electricity: Charges and Currents.- Electric and Magnetic Field.- Applications in Electrical Engineering.- Current Conduction in Liquids, Gases, and Vacuum.- Plasma Physics.- Tables on Electricity; IV Thermodynamics: Equilibrium and State Variables.- Heat, Conversion of Energy, and Changes of State.- Phase Transitions, Reactions, and Equalizing of Heat.- Tables on Thermodynamics; V Quantum Physics: Photons, Electromagnetic Radiation, and Light Quanta.