Applied physics

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

This book presents the reader with a story-based narrative of discovery and development of radiation-induced graft polymerization.

This book provides results of analysis of typical solar events, statistical analysis, the diagnostics of energetic electrons and magnetic field, as well as the global behavior of solar flaring loops such as their contraction and expansion.

This book presents contributions to the 9th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials held in Porquerolles, France, May 23-26, 2011.

This book analyses the sustainability of membrane operations applied on an industrial scale, as well as that of those under investigation on lab/pilot scales, covering also the preparation of both polymeric and inorganic membranes.

For over half a century, an increasing number of satellites have fragmented in orbit, creating a large amount of hazardous orbital debris which threaten the safety of useful functioning satellites and space missions.

This book highlights recent advances in and diverse techniques for exploring the plasma membrane's structure and function.

This book provides a critical, carefully researched, up-to-date summary of membranes for membrane bioreactors.

This book presents research advances in the theory of medical physics and its application in various sectors of biomedical engineering.

This book investigates radiocesium movement in all major components of forest ecosystems, e.

This book focuses on the morphology, exine ornamentation and the associated evolutionary trends of crabapple pollen and anatomical developmental patterns.

This book explains the physics behind seismic ground motions and seismic waves to graduate and upper undergraduate students as well as to professionals.

This book illustrates the role of randomness and noise in living organisms.

There is something special about cancer compared to other diseases.

Effective field theories have been widely used in nuclear physics.

This book introduces new geological analysis and geophysical methods and techniques for lithological reservoir exploration.

This book discusses in detail the structural, evolutionary and functional role of actin and its regulatory proteins in gliding motility in apicomplexan organisms, a unique phenomenon found in actin-myosin cytoskeletal elements.

This book introduces the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), also known as the "e;The Sky Eye"e;, one of the China's big science facilities.

This book highlights the innovative applications of electromagnetics, optics, thermodynamics theories in creating methods for physical-layer collision prevention- "e;physical anti-collision"e; in radio frequency identification (RFID) systems.

This book provides insights into current radiology practices in diagnostic imaging, discussing specific features of individual imaging techniques, such as sensitivity, specificity and accuracy and signal-to-noise ratio.

This book highlights leading-edge research in multi-disciplinary areas in Physics, Engineering, Medicine, and Health care, from the 6th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET 2020) held in July 2020 at Singapore.

The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988.

This book highlights the advancements in different fields of clinical electrophysiology and gives the reader a good background of the established practices.

'The book can be a good introduction to research in the area of black hole physics.

This book describes the dynamics of biological cells and their mathematical modeling.

This volume offers a selection of papers presented at the Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology 2019 (EKC 2019).

This book attempts to explain the core of physics, the origin of everything and anything.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the authors' works which include significant discoveries and pioneering contributions on Materials Process Engineering, Materials Physics and Chemistry, Emerging Areas of Materials Science, and so on.

This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube.

This book explains the anatomy and physiology of cartilage tissue in an integrated way.

What is the origin of the universe?

The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and 'something it is like to be' remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world.

This book is an attempt to demystify the activities of a celestial object such as the Sun appealing to basic physics already available to high school students.

This is a revisit of a radical theory of cometary panspermia and cosmic life that was first proposed by Chandra Wickramasinghe and the late Sir Fred Hoyle in 1982.

All sorts of biological activities are processed thermodynamically, and at the utmost fundamental level, the laws of biology must be thermodynamics.

This book presents the physical science experiments in a space microgravity environment conducted on board the SJ-10 recoverable satellite, which was launched on April 6th, 2016 and recovered on April 18th, 2016.

This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries.

'I can wholeheartedly recommend this book students, researchers, college and university science professors, and readers of The Leading Edge.

This publication shows the three-dimensional configuration of the gigantic tectonic sag of the Osaka Bay sedimentary basin on the eastern Eurasian margin based on reflection seismic data never before published.

This lecture volume aims to give students and researchers in this rapidly expanding field of biophotonics an interdisciplinary perspective.

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The idea of colliding two particle beams to fully exploit the energy of accelerated particles was first proposed by Rolf Wideroe, who in 1943 applied for a patent on the collider concept and was awarded the patent in 1953.

This book is an attempt to provide an account of biomass recalcitrance and available physical and chemical methods for biomass pretreatment and hydrolysis.

This book aims to explain radiation from a somewhat different aspect than its traditional image as something that is scary, dangerous, hazardous, and so on, to produce the correct understanding that radiation is carrying energy, and to convince readers that radiation is not "e;scary"e; but controllable and useful.

This book discusses autonomous spacecraft navigation based on X-ray pulsars, analyzing how to process X-ray pulsar signals, how to simulate them, and how to estimate the pulse's time of arrival based on epoch folding.

This book is the result of an elaborate project initiated by the Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) of 1) the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2) the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment, 3) the International Society for Rock Mechanics, and 4) the International Geotextile Society, with the focus on natural slopes and landslides.

Using Cartan's differential 1-forms theory, and assuming that the motion variables depend on Euclidean invariants, certain dynamics of the material point and systems of material points are developed.

The book begins at the Sun then travels through the solar system to see the stars, how they work, and ultimately what they mean to us.

This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma-materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI.

Tom Kibble is an inspirational theoretical physicist who has made profound contributions to our understanding of the physical world.