Applied physics

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The latest edition of the leading forum in chemical physics Edited by Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A.

This book systematically presents the concept, history, implementation, theory system and basic methods of pulsar and space flight, illustrating the characteristics of pulsars.

This monograph discusses cosmological inflation and provides exact and slow roll solutions.

This book is a unified presentation of waves and flows occurring in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, for graduate students and researchers.

Language of the Earth is a collection of essays that provides a particular category of and describes the current content in each area of earth science.

Proteins: A Structural Biology Perspective explains how advances in modern physics fueled the birth of structural biology and modern molecular biology in the early to mid 20th century.

Biomimetic photonics is a burgeoning field.

Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries.

The purpose of the book is a dual one: to detail the nature and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and present-day CIS, and to destroy two long-standing myths still held in the West.

This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity.

This book deals with fractals in understanding problems encountered in earth science, and their solutions.

While innovative technologies in remediation need to be developed, so do innovative ways of site assessment.

Imaging for Students delivers step-by-step guidance to the range of imaging techniques available, providing a clear explanation of how each imaging modality actually works, and including information on the associated risks and hazards.

Using a novel approach that combines high temporal resolution of the laser T-jump technique with unique sets of fluorescent probes, this study unveils previously unresolved DNA dynamics during search and recognition by an architectural DNA bending protein and two DNA damage recognition proteins.

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The vitality of the cardiovascular system, which consists of the heart, vas- culature, and blood, depends on its response to a host of complex stimuli, including biological, chemical, electrical, mechanical, and thermal.

Radioactive sources such as nuclear power installations can pose a great threat to both humans and our environment.

This volume focuses on Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), a powerful tool allowing luminescence lifetime measurements to be made with high temporal resolution, even on single molecules.

It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi- nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column.

This book explains how the car, as a structure, behaves in various types of accidents.

This book serves as an introduction to cryocooler technology and describes the principle applications of cryocoolers across a broad range of fields.

Detailed reviews of new and emerging topics in chemical physics presented by leading experts The Advances in Chemical Physics series is dedicated to reviewing new and emerging topics as well as the latest developments in traditional areas of study in the field of chemical physics.

This book surveys the most recent advances in physics-inspired cell movement models.

This workshop includes about 110 papers describing the flux pinning and related electromagnetic phenomena in superconductors.

Wouldn't it be great if there were a physics book that showed you how things work instead of telling you how?

A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report.

Herbig-Haro objects were discovered 50 years ago, and during this half century they have developed from being mysterious small nebulae to be- coming an important phenomenon in star formation.

This book covers the latest environmental issues based on current research objectives.

Learn how to use estimation techniques to solve real-world IC design problems and accelerate design processes with this practical guide.

Earthquakes come and go as they please, leaving behind them trails of destruc- tion and casualties.

This monograph is the result of a course given to graduate students and to the faculty of the Dept.

In our daily lives we conceive of our surroundings as an objectively given reality.

Experimental microdosimetry deals with the measurement of charged particle energy deposition in tissue equivalent volumes, ranging in size from nanometres to micrometres.

This textbook on plate tectonics is designed for students in geology and geophysics to acquire in-depth knowledge of quantitative methods in plate kinematics and dynamics.

This book is a collection of all pertinent information on radiation safety applicable in nuclear medicine and research using radioactive materials.

As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster.

This book presents a novel method for the numerical simulation of swimming animals.

This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Geilo, Norway, 24 March - 3 April 2003, the seventeenth ASI in a series held every two years since 1971.

There has been phenomenal growth in the field of remote sensing over the last two to three decades.

The last decade has witnessed a breathtaking expansion of ideas concerning the origin and evolution of the universe.

Cluster was one of the two missions - the other being the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) - constituting the Solar Terrestrial Science Programme (STSP), the first `cornerstone' of ESA's Horizon 2000 Programme.

Geologists must be able to "e;read"e; a geological map.

The treatment of a patient with radiation therapy is planned to find the optimal way to treat a tumour while minimizing the dose received by the surrounding normal tissues.

This introductory textbook on experimental physics covers the fields of electrodynamics and optics.

This volume represents the fIrst of a series of proceedings of the EL.

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity.