Applied physics

This book offers new findings on the impact of galaxy mergers on galaxy evolution and related processes.

The applications involving electromagnetic fields are so pervasive that it is difficult to estimate their contribution to the industrial output: generation of electricity, power transmission lines, electric motors, actuators, relays, radio, TV and microwave transmission and reception, magnetic storage, and even the mundane little magnet used to hold a paper note on the refrigerator are all electromagnetic in nature.

Explains for researchers the rapidly evolving field of protein condensation and the relation to disease.

Complex Systems lie at the heart of a variety of large-scale phenomena of great significance - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty, pandemics - and this text uses these case studies as motivations and contexts to explore complex systems and related topics of nonlinear dynamics and power-law statistics.

Presents advanced reservoir simulation methods used in the widely-used MRST open-source software for researchers, professionals, students.

Since the Sun is the main source of space weather effects, the first part of the book is devoted to a general introduction to the physics of the Sun.

Quantum physics provides the concepts and their mathematical formalization that lend themselves to describe important properties of biological networks topology, such as vulnerability to external stress and their dynamic response to changing physiological conditions.

That trees should have been cut down to provide paper for this book was an ecological afIront.

This book presents the fundamentals and the state of the art of the photophysics of molecular oxygen.

Due to the increasing number of digital mammograms and the advent of new kinds of three-dimensional x-ray and other forms of medical imaging, mammography is undergoing a dramatic change.

Advances in Geophysics

Acquisition and Processing of Marine Seismic Data demonstrates the main principles, required equipment, and suitable selection of parameters in 2D/3D marine seismic data acquisition, as well as theoretical principles of 2D marine seismic data processing and their practical implications.

This book reviews the status of developing tailor-made low-cost membranes and membrane-based separation processes for applications in wastewater treatment.

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Follow Nobel laureate and legendary teacher Enrico Fermi's lost course on geophysics.

Advances in Geophysics, the latest in this critically acclaimed serialized review journal that has published for over 50 years, contains the latest information available in the field.

Public misperception of radiological risk consistently directs limited resources toward managing minimal or even phantom risks at great cost to government and industry with no measurable benefit to overall public health.

Background: Physicist Jack Simmons' research led him to develop a new paradigm to quantify radiation effects.

Cis-Trans Isomeric Carotenoids, Vitamins A, and Arylpolyenes focuses on the reactions, characteristics, and properties of cis-trans isomeric carotenoids, vitamins A, and arylpolyenes.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the foundations of spacetime physics.

Fundamentals of Space Biology is the third textbook addressing Space Life Sciences in this Space Technology Library series.

Multidimensional Lithium-Ion Battery Status Monitoring focuses on equivalent circuit modeling, parameter identification, and state estimation in lithium-ion battery power applications.

Revised second edition for advanced undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics.

An introductory textbook presenting the key concepts and applications of thermodynamics, including numerous worked examples and exercises.

Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'.

This book takes a multiscale overview and theoretical framework for all existing brain imaging modalities.

Organized Multienzyme Systems: Catalytic Properties describes the kinetic and catalytic properties of organized enzyme systems.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

With growing public pressure and increasingly stringent environmental legislation, the waste industry is now being called upon to develop more sustainable methods of dealing with refuse.

Current Topics in Bioenergetics, Volume 6 provides information pertinent to the phenomenon of energy transduction.

This book addresses time-bound geotectonic evolution of the various geological terrains of the Indian continent, on the basis of integrated geophysical studies, like seismic, seismological, gravity, magnetic, magnetotelluric and heat flow, carried out over the past five decades.

This book summarizes the results of studies of molecules and molecular complexes using techniques based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in a novel scientific direction called molecular plasmonics.

Nanotechnology in biology and medicine: Research advancements & future perspectives is focused to provide an interdisciplinary, integrative overview on the developments made in nanotechnology till date along with the ongoing trends and the future prospects.

This book is a compilation of carefully chosen chapters that cover the subjects of nanoscale matter, sensing, and labelling applications.

The NATO Science Committee and its subsidiary Programme Panels provide support for Advanced Research Institutes (ARI) in various fields.

A unique presentation that unifies the field, this book brings together concepts and information about contaminant effects at all levels of the biological hierarchy.

Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts.

GIS and Geostatistical Techniques for Groundwater Science provides a detailed synthesis of the application of GIS and geostatistics in groundwater studies.

The critically acclaimed serialized review journal for over 50 years, Advances in Geophysics is a highly respected publication in the field of geophysics.

Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics provides an introductory-level exploration of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), the principles governing air and water flows on large terrestrial scales.

This book gives an accessible, detailed overview on techniques of single molecule biophysics (SMB), showing how they are applied to numerous biological problems associated with understanding the molecular mechanisms of DNA replication, transcription, and translation, as well as functioning of molecular machines.

NMR spectroscopy has found a wide range of applications in life sciences over recent decades.

Presents an explanation of diffractive nuclear scattering in terms of semi-classical trajectories.

The handbook aims to provide a comprehensive resource for understanding ionizing radiation dosimetry, catering to experts, policymakers, and interested readers.

From its early days in the 1950s, the electron microanalyzer has offered two principal ways of obtaining x-ray spectra: wavelength dispersive spectrometry (WDS), which utilizes crystal diffraction, and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS), in which the x-ray quantum energy is measured directly.

This graduate-level text collects and synthesizes a series of ten lectures on the nuclear quantum many-body problem.

Linear Accelerators for Radiation Therapy, Second Edition focuses on the fundamentals of accelerator systems, explaining the underlying physics and the different features of these systems.