Classical mechanics

Based on a course given at Oxford over many years, this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity.

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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions ofconsonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre.

Over the past several years, significant advances have been made in developing the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for applications in fluid flow and heat transfer.

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.

Multibody Mechanics and Visualization is designed to appeal to computer-savvy students who will acquire significant skills in mathematical and physical modelling of mechanical systems in the process of producing attractive computer simulations and animations.

This thesis makes significant advances in the use of microspheres in optical traps as highly precise sensing platforms.

This book highlights the latest developments on the numerical methods for inverse scattering problems associated with acoustic, electromagnetic, and elastic waves.

The text comprehensively explains different pathways for hydrogen production, storage and transportation technologies, safety issues, and various applications in different industries.

This book introduces a unified implementation of bond- and state-based peridynamic theory (PD) within a commercial finite element framework, Ansys, utilizing its native elements.

This textbook provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to Nonlinear Elasticity aimed at undergraduate students in a compact text.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of modeling in advancing perovskite solar cell technology and its implications for the future of renewable energy.

This book describes the basic concepts and principles of classical mechanics in the intermediate level.

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This book covers all the standard introductory topics in classical mechanics, for the first part: Statics (the analysis of forces and moments acting on a mechanical system in equilibrium with its environment).

This book offers a systemic introduction and summarization of nanoscale characterization techniques on cementitious materials.

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo.

This book is designed to facilitate teaching and informal discussion in a supportive and friendly environment.

This book introduces physics concepts and principles at a conversant but non-technical level.

This textbook presents a concise and comprehensive treatment of the theory of elasticity.

This textbook presents a concise and comprehensive treatment of the theory of elasticity.

This book compactly provides the fundamentals of experimental physics for students of the natural sciences who are taking physics as a minor or major subject.

21st Century Kinematics focuses on algebraic problems in the analysis and synthesis of mechanisms and robots, compliant mechanisms, cable-driven systems and protein kinematics.

TTSS offers a unique analysis of the relationship between the structure of sound and the structure of scale and will be use to musicians and composers who use inharmonic tones and sounds.

Texture accounts for an important part of the realism of simulated experiences, and it is most certainly true during tactile interaction.

In the 70+ year history of control theory and engineering, few applications have stirred as much excitement as flow control.

With the overwhelming use of computers in engineering, science and physics, the approximate solution of complex mathematical systems of equations is almost commonplace.

Fracture and Mechanics is concerned with the experimental method of static and dynamic caustics and the Distribution of Determinant (Det.

Designers and operators of rotating machinery have to deal with the effects of machine vibration and wear.

Professor Sluzalec is a well-known and respected authority in the field of Computational Mechanics, and his personal experience forms the basis of the book.

Whilst most contemporary books in the aerospace propulsion field are dedicated primarily to gas turbine engines, there is often little or no coverage of other propulsion systems and devices such as propeller and helicopter rotors or detailed attention to rocket engines.

Vortex Formation in the Cardiovascular System will recapitulate the current knowledge about the vortex formation in the cardiovascular system, from mechanics to cardiology.

This text presents an introduction to the application of the finite ele- ment method to the analysis of heat transfer problems.

A follow on from the author's work "e;Finite Elements in Heat Transfer"e; which we published 11/94, and which is a powerful CFD programme that will run on a PC.

Finite Element Programs for Structural Vibrations presents detailed descriptions of how to use six computer programs (written in Fortran 77) to determine the resonant frequencies of one, two, and three-dimensional skeletal structures through the finite element method.

Medical applications of ultrasound range from therapy, foetal monitoring, diagnostic imaging and blood flow measurement, to surgery and lithotripsy.

Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics of Soils provides a long-needed general scheme for the study of the important yet problematic material of soil.

Abrasive water jet machining was introduced to manufacturing ten years ago and has been increasingly used for treating hard-to-machine and multi-layered materials and as an alternative tool for milling, turning, drilling and polishing.

Thank you for opening the second edition of this monograph, which is devoted to the study of a class of nonsmooth dynamical systems of the general form: ::i; = g(x,u) (0.

Modern Methods in Analytical Acoustics considers topics fundamental to the understanding of noise, vibration and fluid mechanisms.

Special relativity is one of the high points of the undergraduate mathematical physics syllabus.

Many phenomena in the physical and biological sciences involve the collective behaviour of (very large) numbers of individual objects.

This book gives an update on recent developments in the mentioned areas of modern engineering design application.

This book covers the latest ideas and approaches in strongly nonlinear dynamical and acoustical systems and discusses appropriate modelling tools and practical examples highlighting the non-standard and non-stationary aspects of this challenging, yet so promising area.

This extensively revised second edition provides ten additional new chapters on the noise-relevant handling of input bias-current-compensated operational amplifiers.

This exceptional textbook provides extensive discussions and worked exercises to accompany a field theory course at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

This book treats the micromechanics of laminae, i.

This book highlights the range of issues involved in designing interior spaces for acoustics-that is, ensuring that the sound of a space matches its function.

This book is designed to facilitate teaching and informal discussion in a supportive and friendly environment.