Classical mechanics

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A comprehensive account of the basic theory of the mechanical behavior of heterogeneous media, this volume assembles, interprets, and interrelates contributions to the field of composite materials from theoretical research, laboratory developments, and product applications.

The third edition of Bubbles, Drops, and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids provides comprehensive coverage of the scientific foundations and the latest advances in particle motion in non-Newtonian media.

This book initiates with the story of the evolution of firearms to enable the reader to appreciate the sequence of the development of firearms.

Now in its Third Edition, the Communications Standard Dictionary maintains its position as the most comprehensive dictionary covering communications technologies available.

The analysis and simulation of multifield problems have recently become one of the most actual and vivid areas of research.

Due to safety reasons, energetic materials are rarely studied at research facilities.

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First published in 2013.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

In keeping with the tradition of previous summer schools on fundamental problems in statistical mechanics, this book contains in depth treatemnts of topics of current interest in statistical mechanics and closely related fields.

Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results in dark energy, this textbook is a thorough introduction to dark energy for graduate courses.

A rigorously comprehensive and interdisciplinary text on wave turbulence, for graduate students and researchers in physics-related fields.

This is the sixth volume in a series of books on the general topics of supersymmetry, supergravity, black holes and the attractor mechanism.

The book comprises a broad panorama of phenomena occurring in four major classes of radiophysical and mechanical systems - linear, nonlinear, parametric, and nonlinear-parametric.

A selection of survey articles and original research papers in mathematical fluid mechanics, for both researchers and graduate students.

This book examines the variety of potential laser diagnostic techniques and presents a considerable theoretical foundation elucidating physics relevant to the laser diagnostics.

This textbook treats Hydro- and Fluid Dynamics, the engineering science dealing with forces and energies generated by fluids in motion, playing a vital role in everyday life.

Encompassing both practical applications and recent research developments, this book takes the reader from fundamental physics, through cutting-edge new designs of ejectors for refrigeration.

This book reports on the application of advanced models of the human binaural hearing system in modern technology, among others, in the following areas: binaural analysis of aural scenes, binaural de-reverberation, binaural quality assessment of audio channels, loudspeakers and performance spaces, binaural perceptual coding, binaural processing in hearing aids and cochlea implants, binaural systems in robots, binaural/tactile human-machine interfaces, speech-intelligibility prediction in rooms and/or multi-speaker scenarios.

This textbook aimed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate engineering students who need to describe the large deformation of elastic materials like soft plastics, rubber, and biological materials.

Of late the demands of industry in creating new composite and functional materials with present properties stimulated an increased interest to the investigation of processes which occur in the detonation technologies of complex chemical composition with an additive of disperse particles.

The intention of this booklet is a brief but general introduction into the treatment of the Finite Element Method (FEM).

Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models represents a comprehensive collection of data describing the processing of sound by the human hearing system.

Reviews our current understanding of the subject.

Time and Space Weight and Inertia covers the relationship between time, space weight, and inertia using the principles of theory of relativity and chronogeometry.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 2014 New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture (NT2F14) Conference, which was held in Belgrade, Serbia.

This graduate-level primer presents a tutorial introduction to and overview of N = 2 supergravity theories - with 8 real supercharges and in 4, 5 and 6 dimensions.

The focus of this book is concerned with the modeling and precise numerical simulation of mechatronic sensors and actuators.

This book follows the classical division of engineering mechanics as taught at universities in Germany and is devoted to strength of materials, i.

Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications examines the latest advances in the field of cavitation and multiphase flows, including associated effects such as material erosion and spray instabilities.

In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d'Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how he tries to reduce the resistance of a moving body, which is a change of its momentum, to the hydrostatical pressure, which is related to the gravity.

Earthen levees are extensively used to protect the population and infrastructure from periodic floods and high water due to storm surges.

Devised at the beginning of the 20th century by french physicists Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot, the Fabry-Perot optical cavity is perhaps the most deceptively simple setup in optics, and today a key resource in many areas of science and technology.

This volume provides a comprehensive selection of recent studies addressing insect hearing and acoustic communication.

Despite the length of time it has been around, its importance, and vast amounts of research, combustion is still far from being completely understood.

The theory of the inhomogeneous electron gas had its origin in the Thomas- Fermi statistical theory, which is discussed in the first chapter of this book.

The aim of process calculations is to evaluate the performance of minerals and coal processing operations in terms of efficiency of the operation, grade of the final products and recovery of the required constituents.

Originally published in 1977, this book concentrates on the period since nationalisation in the history of the coal industry.

Smart cities emanate from a smart renewable-energy-aided power grid.

The Gaseous State provides a comprehensive discussion on the various areas of concerns in gases.

Corrosion Protection for the Oil and Gas Industry: Pipelines, Subsea Equipment, and Structures summarizes the main causes of corrosion and requirements for materials protection, selection of corrosion-resistant materials and coating materials commonly used for corrosion protection, and the limitations to their use, application, and repair.

Cosmology has become a very active research field in the last decades thanks to the impressing improvement of our observational techniques which have led to landmark discoveries such as the accelerated expansion of the universe, and have put physicists in front of new mysteries to unveil, such as the quest after the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Optical Metrology for Fluids, Combustion and Solids is the first practical handbook that presents the assemblage of the techniques necessary to provide a basic understanding of optical measurement for fluids, combustion, and solids.

Thermal systems are essential features of all domestic and industrial applications involving heat and fluid flow.

This book serves as a textbook for an analytical mechanics course, a fundamental subject of physics, that pays special attention to important topics that are not discussed in most standard textbooks.