Classical mechanics

This new edition of A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings begins by asking why we need to control energy use in buildings and proceeds to discuss how the energy consumption of a building can be assessed or estimated through an energy audit.

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

The book addresses computational methods for solving the problem of vibration, response, loads and stability of a helicopter rotor blade modeled as a rotating beam with flap or out-of-plane bending.

Die fünfte Auflage wurde in Einzelheiten überarbeitet und um zwei neue Abschnitte erweitert: eine genauere Analyse des "Aufstehkreisels" in Kapitel 3 und ein Beispiel für die Anwendung Riemannscher Geometrie in der Mechanik in Kapitel 5.

Introduces Hamiltonian dynamics from the very beginning, culminating in the most important recent results: Kolmogorov''s and Nekhoroshev''s.

Problems in Undergraduate Physics, Volume I: Mechanics focuses on solutions to problems in physics.

Aeroacoustics of Low Mach Number Flows: Fundamentals, Analysis, and Measurement provides a comprehensive treatment of sound radiation from subsonic flow over moving surfaces, which is the most widespread cause of flow noise in engineering systems.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Experimental and Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ICECME 2020), held as a virtual conference and organized by Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on 13-14 October 2020.

This text provides a quantitative introduction to general relativity for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Among electrode materials, inorganic materials have received vast consideration owing to their redox chemistry, chemical stability, high electrochemical performance, and high-power applications.

This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting entitled, "e;The IGM/Galaxy Connection: The Distribution of Baryons at z = 0.

Innovative Wind Turbines is a tribute to the inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and companies that through their efforts have envisioned, designed, and constructed models and prototypes for wind energy devices.

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

The book presents theoretical and experimental studies to establish the relationship between volume jumps of the 90(deg) domain wall in a ferromagnetic material and the magnitude of the half-space surface displacement caused by it.

Air Distribution in Buildings is a concise and practical guide to air distribution system design and managing air conditioning systems in buildings.

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning.

This book discusses basic thermodynamic behaviors and 'abnormal' properties from a thermo-physical perspective, and explores basic heat transfer and flow properties, the latest findings on their physical aspects and indications, chemical engineering properties, microscale phenomena, as well as transient behaviors in fast and critical environments.

Originally published in 1985.

Written by two leading researchers from the world-renowned Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Hydrogen Production Handbook is an unrivalled overview of current and future prospects for the effective production of hydrogen via nuclear energy.

The laws of nature encompass the small, the large, the few, and the many.

This book starts with the mathematical basis of the theory - i.

Two-fluid dynamics is a challenging subject rich in physics and prac- tical applications.

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.

From 29 August to 7 September 2007, a large group of distinguished lecturers and young physicists from various countries met in Erice, Italy, at the "e;Ettore Majorana"e; Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) to attend the 45th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics: "e;Search for the 'Totally Unexpected' in the LHC era"e;.

Since many processes in the food industry involve fluid flow and heat and mass transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) provides a powerful early-stage simulation tool for gaining a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the performance of food processing, allowing engineers to test concepts all the way through the development of a process or system.

This graduate text provides a unified treatment of the fundamental principles of two-phase flow and shows how to apply the principles to a variety of homogeneous mixture as well as separated liquid-liquid, gas-solid, liquid-solid, and gas-liquid flow problems, which may be steady or transient, laminar or turbulent.

Covered from the vantage point of a user of a commercial flow package, Essentials of Computational Fluid Dynamics provides the information needed to competently operate a commercial flow solver.

Solid-Liquid Thermal Energy Storage: Modeling and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of solid-liquid phase change thermal storage.

This book covers essential ideas and methods behind applications of variational theory in theoretical physics and chemistry.

This book represents the fifth part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots.

A self-contained presentation of the dynamics of nonlinear waves in combustion and other non-equilibrium energetic systems for students and specialists.

The worldwide petroleum industry is facing a dilemma: the production level of heavy petroleum is higher than that of light petroleum.

This book develops the theoretical foundations of disperse two-phase flows, which are characterized by the existence of bubbles, droplets or solid particles finely dispersed in a carrier fluid, which can be a liquid or a gas.

Das Buch, für das du dich gerade entschieden hast, ist ganz bewusst kein „richtiges“ Lehrbuch, aber eben auch nicht nur eine Aufgaben- oder reine Formelsammlung.

This book systematically presents the consolidated findings of the phenomenon of self-organization observed during the onset of thermoacoustic instability using approaches from dynamical systems and complex systems theory.

This book presents a review of various issues related to Lorentz symmetry breaking.

In the post-9/11 world, the possibility of energy infrastructure-terrorism-the use of weapons to cause devastating damage to the energy industrial sector and cause cascading effects-is very real.

This book addresses how water supply systems can be planned, designed, and managed for sustainability by presenting unique approaches and methodologies in rural drinking water supply schemes.

It is two decades since Mitchell Feigenbaum's landmark papers on period doubling and the modern beginnings of what is now called "e;Chaos Theory"e;.

This Topics volume is devoted to a study of sound propagation in the ocean.

Sound is produced by vibrations and as such can be dampened or augmented based on materials selection.

This book is primarily for undergraduates, graduates and research scholars working in the field of energy storage systems.

Modern communication devices, such as mobile phones, teleconferencing systems, VoIP, etc.

The present volume aims to be a comprehensive survey on the derivation of the equations of motion, both in General Relativity as well as in alternative gravity theories.

The need to predict, understand, and optimize complex physical and c- mical processes occurring in and around the earth, such as groundwater c- tamination, oil reservoir production, discovering new oil reserves, and ocean hydrodynamics, has been increasingly recognized.

This monograph is based on a graduate course, Mechanical Engipeering 266, which was developed over a number of years at the University of California-Berkeley.