Classical mechanics

Now in an updated second edition, this classroom-tested textbook covers fundamental and advanced topics in orbital mechanics and astrodynamics designed to introduce readers to the basic dynamics of space flight.

This book bridges the huge gap between popular science and mathematical treatments of Einstein's theories.

This book emphasizes engineering applications of elasticity.

This volume presents state-of-the-art developments in theoretical and applied fluid mechanics.

The thesis tackles two distinct problems of great interest in gravitational mechanics - one relativistic and one Newtonian.

The book provides an accessible overview of audio signal processing, and enables readers to design and write algorithms for the analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of musical and acoustic signals for any programming language.

In physics, classical mechanics is one of the two major sub-fields of mechanics, which is concerned with the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces.

This book presents fundamental theoretical and experimental studies of well-known scientists in solid mechanics, hydromechanics, aeromechanics, biomechanics, etc.

Principles of Nuclear Rocket Propulsion, Second Edition continues to put the technical and theoretical aspects of nuclear rocket propulsion into a clear and unified presentation, providing an understanding of the physical principles underlying the design and operation of nuclear fission-based rocket engines.

This book provides a concise introduction to the physics of gravitational waves.

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and industrial trends in field of industrial acoustics and vibration.

Energy Security in the 1980s examines energy industries, power resources, and energy policy, and international economics.

Spontaneous pattern formation in nonlinear dissipative systems far from equilibrium is a paradigmatic case of emergent behaviour associated with complex systems.

Aircraft Performance: An Engineering Approach, Second Edition introduces flight performance analysis techniques of fixed-wing air vehicles, particularly heavier-than-aircraft.

Magnetically responsive soft matter is a colloidal model system where interparticle interactions can be tuned through external magnetic fields.

Aircraft Performance: An Engineering Approach, Second Edition introduces flight performance analysis techniques of fixed-wing air vehicles, particularly heavier-than-aircraft.

This book addresses the prediction and control of noise and vibration in ventilation systems and their psychoacoustic effects on people.

Adsorption, Ion Exchange and Catalysis is essentially a mixture of environmental science and chemical reactor engineering.

This book addresses the prediction and control of noise and vibration in ventilation systems and their psychoacoustic effects on people.

There is a huge gulf between the real physics of space travel and the way it is commonly portrayed in movies and TV shows.

This book presents a comprehensive review of how acoustic waves are processed by the auditory system into structured sounds such as musical melodies, speech utterances, or environmental sounds.

Magnetically responsive soft matter is a colloidal model system where interparticle interactions can be tuned through external magnetic fields.

The purpose of this second edition is to provide an overview of important principles in the fields of finance and accounting, and the application of those principles for financial analysis of energy and non-energy capital investments.

The purpose of this second edition is to provide an overview of important principles in the fields of finance and accounting, and the application of those principles for financial analysis of energy and non-energy capital investments.

Related closely to the field of physical acoustics is that of psychoacoustics, which deals with the phenomena of musical hearing from a psychological and aesthetic point of view.

This monograph presents a comprehensive and rigorous new framework for the theoretical description and modelling of enriched continua.

Plants offer some of the most elegant applications of soft matter principles in Nature.

This book presents the mathematics behind the formulation, approximation, and numerical analysis of contact and friction problems.

This book presents the mathematics behind the formulation, approximation, and numerical analysis of contact and friction problems.

This book is the 3rd edition of an introduction to modern computational mechanics based on the finite element method.

Classical Mechanics in designed as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate students of Physics.

This is the first book which systematically describes an integral approach on dimensional analysis.

This book provides an introduction to relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics, with particular emphasis on its derivation from microscopic transport theory.

The book presents topical theoretical and experimental studies for developing advanced methods of detecting materials fracture and assessing their structural state using acoustic emission.

This book provides an introduction to classical celestial mechanics.

This book addresses research challenges in the rapidly developing area of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and fluctuation kinetics.

Christoph Schafer introduces the great world of programming with Python and provides a quick introduction to independent script development.

This revised, updated edition provides a comprehensive and rigorous description of the application of Hamilton's principle to continuous media.

This book presents the basic elements of theoretical physics in a highly accessible, captivating way for university students in the third year of a degree in physics.

Focusing on the theory and state-of-the-art technologies of ultrasonic testing (UT), this book examines ultrasonic propagation in solids and its detection applications, and explores the intersection of UT technology with various fields of electromagnetics, optics and physics.

This book, designed as a tool for young researchers and graduate students, reviews the main open problems and research lines in various fields of astroparticle physics: cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrinos, cosmology, and gravitational physics.

This book presents selected mathematical problems involving the dynamics of a two-dimensional viscous and ideal incompressible fluid on a rotating sphere.

This book examines blast waves-their methods of generation, their propagation in several dimensions through the real atmosphere and layered gases, and their interactions with simple structures-thereby providing a broad overview of the field.

This book includes select papers presented during the 16th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, held in JNCASR, Bangalore, and presents the latest developments in computational, experimental and theoretical research as well as industrial and technological advances.

How can we predict the trajectory of a baseball from bat to outfield?

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 2019 (AeroMech 2019), held at the Universiti Sains Malaysia's School of Aerospace Engineering.

This book is about singular limits of systems of partial differential equations governing the motion of thermally conducting compressible viscous fluids.

This textbook provides a concise, clear, and rigorous presentation of the dynamics of linear systems that delivers the necessary tools for the analysis and design of mechanical/ structural systems, regardless of their complexity.