Classical mechanics

Suitable as a one-semester course in general relativity for senior undergraduate or beginning graduate students, this text clarifies the mathematical aspects of Einstein's general theory of relativity without sacrificing physical understanding.

The first edition of this book presented the principles of vibration and sound with only a little discussion of applications of these principles.

The vast majority of important applications in science, engineering and applied science are characterized by the existence of multiple minima and maxima, as well as first, second and higher order saddle points.

An engineer's introduction to concepts, algorithms, and advancements in Digital Signal Processing.

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.

EMATs for Science and Industry comprises the physical principles of electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) and the applications to scientific and industrial ultrasonic measurements on materials.

The Centre de recherches matMmatiques (CRM) was created in 1968 by the Universite de Montreal to promote research in the mathematical sciences.

The Centre de recherches mathematiques (CRM) was created in 1968 by the Universite de Montreal to promote research in the mathematical sciences.

As the field of Microsystems expands into more disciplines and new applications such as RF-MEMS, Optical MEMS and Bio-MEMS, thermal management is becoming a critical issue in the operation of many microdevices, including microelectronic chips.

Microfluidics and BioMEMS Applications central idea is on microfluidics, a relatively new research field which finds its niche in biomedical devices, especially on lab-on-a-chip and related products.

Inverse problems have a long history in acoustics, optics, electromagnetics and geophysics, but only recently have the signals provided by ocean acoustic sensors become numerous and sophisticated enough to allow for realistic identification of the ocean parameters.

Scope, Aims, and Audiences This primer is intended to provide the theoretical background for the standard undergraduate course in dynamics.

Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis gives a first review of this new field.

Ready access to computers at an institutional and personal level has defined a new era in teaching and learning.

Motivated by practical problems in engineering and physics, drawing on a wide range of applied mathematical disciplines, this book is the first to provide, within a unified framework, a self-contained comprehensive mathematical theory of duality for general non-convex, non-smooth systems, with emphasis on methods and applications in engineering mechanics.

Benefiting from Thermal and Mechanical Simulation in Micro-Electronics presents papers from the first international conference on this topic, EuroSimE2000.

The quality of a telecommunication voice service is largely inftuenced by the quality of the transmission system.

Recent Developments in Time-Frequency Analysis brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

This volume, Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology, has been put together over the past four years.

The present work grew out of a study of the Maslov class (e.

The present book is a sequel to "e;Elastomers and Rubber Elasticity,"e; edited by J.

This book is an attempt to bring the full range of relativity theory within reach of advanced undergraduates, while containing enough new material and simplifications of old arguments so as not to bore the expert teacher.

The aim of the present book is to address practical aspects of nonlinear vibration analysis.

The term singular spectrum comes from the spectral (eigenvalue) decomposition of a matrix A into its set (spectrum) of eigenvalues.

In this book we have tried to provide a user-friendly introduction to the topic of convection in porous media.

Transport phenomena is used here to descril>e momentum, energy, mass, and entropy transfer (Bird et al.

Automatic modulation recognition is a rapidly evolving area of signal analysis.

Colloidal dispersions play a very important role in nature, industry, and daily life.

Turbulence-the randomly disordered movement of volumes of air of widely varying size-is one of the characteristic features of atmospheric air flows; its investigation is essential for the solution of several theoretical and practical problems.

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The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017'Does Einstein proud .

Phase Change Heat Transfer covers theory and experiments in heat transfer associated with boiling and condensation.

This book examines how the on-paper hydropower boom impacts the safe and fair access to water and energy in emerging economies.

'A typically Mayesque celebration of classic engineering .

Energy is probably the defining topic of our age.

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.

Einstein's theory of general relativity is one of the pillars of modern physics and it is our standard framework for describing gravitational fields and the spacetime structure.

For applied mathematicians, physicists, and engineers interested in either nonlinear dynamics or classical mechanics and fluid dynamics.

The topic of this book is homogenization theory and its applications to optimal design in the conductivity and elasticity settings.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications PARTICULATE FLOWS: PROCESSING AND RHEOLOGY is based on the proceedings of a very successful one-week workshop with the same title, which was an integral part of the 1995-1996 IMA program on "e;Mathematical Methods in Materials Science.

The central subject matter of this book is Einstein's special theory of relativiry.

In light of the barrage of popular books on physics and cosmology, one may question the need for another.

The reader will find in this volume the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy between August 6 and August 17, 1990 under the title "e;Predictability, Stability, and Chaos in N-Body Dynamical Systems"e;.

This book is based on the contributions to the 17th International School of Materials Sci- ence and Technology, entitled Nonlinear Waves in Solid State Physics.

As we enter the nineties, there is worldwide awareness that the future of all mankind is inexorably linked by the world we share, and its response to man's activities.

This volume contains papers contributed to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "e;Nonlinear Evolution of Spatio-Temporal Structures in Dissipative Continuous Systems"e; held in Streitberg, Fed.