Classical mechanics

A comprehensive but accessible advanced undergraduate treatment of classical mechanics, adaptable to a one or two-semester course.

Information is a core concept in animal communication: individuals routinely produce, acquire, process and store information, which provides the basis for their social life.

Dieses Lehrbuch stellt die Strömungslehre als einheitliche Wissenschaft dar, die in allen Zweigen den gemeinsamen Prinzipien der Kontinuumsmechanik folgt.

Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Theory is a collection of papers presented at the 1977 conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Theory, held in New Orleans.

Magnetic materials can support propagating waves of magnetization; since these are oscillations in the magnetostatic properties of the material, they are called magnetostatic waves (sometimes "e;magnons"e; or "e;magnetic polarons"e;).

This volume explores state-of-the-art developments in theoretical and applied fluid mechanics with a focus on stabilization and control.

Progress in Surface and Membrane Science, Volume 13 covers the progress in understanding certain aspects of surface and membrane science, including catalysis, permeability, and biomembranes.

Recent years have seen acceleration in the development of cleaner energy systems.

Der Frankfurter Soziologe Dieter Prokop analysiert, wie in Bezug auf die kommende Schuldenkrise und Eurokrise und die europäische Grenzschutzkrise die Wählerinnen und Wähler mit rhetorischen Phrasen abgespeist werden.

The Physical World offers a grand vision of the essential unity of physics that will enable the reader to see the world through the eyes of a physicist and understand their thinking.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the research and development in designing electrode and electrolyte materials for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors.

This important new book covers recent advancements, innovations, and technologies in industrial biotechnology, specifically addressing the application of various biomolecules in industrial production and in cleaning and environmental remediation sectors.

Creep and Relaxation of Nonlinear Viscoelastic Materials with an Introduction to Linear Viscoelasticity deals with nonlinear viscoelasticity, with emphasis on creep and stress relaxation.

This book deals with aspects of thermodynamic restrictions in modern continuum mechanics and with particular problems of the kinetic theory and statistical mechanics.

The first volume (General Theory) differs from most textbooks as it emphasizes the mathematical structure and mathematical rigor, while being adapted to the teaching the first semester of an advanced course in Quantum Mechanics (the content of the book are the lectures of courses actually delivered.

This volume contains 25 review articles by experts which provide up-to-date information about the recent progress in computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Fluid mechanics, the study of how fluids behave and interact under various forces and in various applied situations-whether in the liquid or gaseous state or both-is introduced and comprehensively covered in this widely adopted text.

The principle aim of the book is to present a self-contained, modern account of similarity and symmetry methods, which are important mathematical tools for both physicists, engineers and applied mathematicians.

343 Whilst this may be so it is also true that this in itself is not sufficient to deter- mine it completely.

Das erfolgreiche Lehrbuch entwickelt die Einzeldisziplinen der modernen Strömungslehre aus den allgemein gültigen Prinzipien der Kontinuumsmechanik nach dem Grundsatz „vom Allgemeinen zum Besonderen“.

This book presents an alternative representation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which makes Special Relativity much more comprehensible.

Polymer composites represent materials of great and of continuously growing importance.

This concise textbook offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to special relativity, one of the core components of undergraduate physics courses.

Aimed at both researchers and professionals who deal with this topic in their routine work, this introduction provides a coherent and rigorous access to the field including relevant methods for practical applications.

Energy Management: Conservation and Audit discusses the energy scenario, including energy conservation, management, and audit, along with the methodology supported by industrial examples.

Experimental Methods in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics focuses on how to analyze and solve the classic heat transfer and fluid mechanics measurement problems in one book.

High pressures play a more and more important role in modern technology.

Petroleum Science and Technology: Petroleum Generation, Accumulation and Prospecting describes natural hydrocarbon geology along with applicable aspects of physics, chemistry, biology, environmental science, mathematics, and engineering/technology.

This thesispresents a series of mechanical test methods and comprehensively investigatesthe deformation and damage behavior of Cu/Pb-free solder joints under differentloading conditions.

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

This book is an introduction to a comprehensive and unified dynamic transition theory for dissipative systems and to applications of the theory to a range of problems in the nonlinear sciences.

Prospects of Hydrogen-fueled Power Generation brings together experts to explore the various challenges and opportunities of hydrogen as a fuel in power generation, transportation, storage, and safety.

Turbulence, mixing and the mutual interaction of turbulence and chemistry continue to remain perplexing and impregnable in the fron- tiers of fluid mechanics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products.

Written by an industry-leading scientist, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells explains the theoretical foundations of PEM fuel cells in relation to practical design and operation to not only help beginners grasp the essentials, but also guide industry professionals in tackling technical challenges.

Energy Geotechnics includes 97 technical papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT 2016, Kiel, Germany, 29-31 August 2016).

As global consumption of fossil fuels such as oil increases, previously abundant sources have become depleted or plagued with obstructions.

An accessible, nontechnical introduction to Earth resources and energy systems, for a broad audience ranging from undergraduate students to lifelong learners.

This primer proposes a journey from Newton's dynamics to Einstein's relativity.

This book, originally published in 1978 concentrates on the structure and growth of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland.

Five articles on recent developments in solids and structures comprise Volume 33 of the Advances in Applied Mechanics.

Process machines are critical to the profitability of processes.

The purpose of this text is to present the theory and mathematics of inverse scattering, in a simple way, to the many researchers and professionals who use it in their everyday research.

This book focuses on environmental sustainability by employing elements of engineering and green computing through modern educational concepts and solutions.

After an extensive introduction to the asymptotic safety approach to quantum gravity, this thesis explains recent key advances reported in four influential papers.

The basic subject chosen for this book is directly associated with physics of piezoelectricity and some other electro-magneto-thermo-elastic coupling phe- nomena in solids.