Physics

Introduction to Solid-State Theory is a textbook for graduate students of physics and materials science.

I am very happy to accept the translators' invitation to write a few lines of introduction to this book.

Electrical conductivity is a parameter which characterizes composition and physical state of the Earth's interior.

In the new edition only minor modifications have been made.

This volume collects papers dedicated to Jerry Ericksen on his sixtieth birthday, December 20, 1984.

This monograph treats an extensively developed field in modern mathematical physics - the theory of generalized coherent states and their applications to various physical problems.

Das Buch von Dijksterhuis erschien in deutscher Sprache erstmals 1956.

The attempt to understand the physics of the structure of stars and their change in time - their evolution - has been bothering many physicists and astronomers ever since the last century.

Erstmalig für den deutschen Sprachraum wird ein methodisches Kompendium vorgelegt, mit dessen Hilfe eine umfassende Bearbeitung von historischen menschlichen Skelettresten ohne weiterführende Literatur möglich ist.

The aim of this Conference was to become a forum for discussion of both academic and industrial research in those areas of computational engineering science and mechanics which involve and enrich the rational application of computers, numerical methods, and mechanics, in modern technology.

This volume features invited lectures presented in the workshop-cum-symposium on aspects of many-body effects in molecules and extended systems, Calcutta, February 1 - 10, 1988.

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A knowledge of linear systems provides a firm foundation for the study of optimal control theory and many areas of system theory and signal processing.

Infinite series, and their analogues-integral representations, became funda-mental tools in mathematical analysis, starting in the second half of the seven-teenth century.

We consider the basic problems, notions and facts in the theory of entire functions of several variables, i.

Hysteresis phenomena are common in numerous physical, mechanical, ecological and biological systems.

Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria is an updated record on the most recent insight into the struc- ture/function relationship of reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria.

This book grew-how could it be otherwise?

Image understanding is an attempt to extract knowledge about a 3D scene from 20 images.

This volume consists of papers selected from the proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon from 9 to 12 July, 1990.

For the past five years, my editor at Springer-Verlag has asked me to write a second edition of this text that would incorporate new material on the quark model.

This book is a course of lectures given for senior students at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

DYNAMICS REPORTED reports on recent developments in dynamical systems.

This research monograph presents a systematic treatment of the theory of the propagation of transient electromagnetic fields (such as optical pulses) through dielectric media which exhibit both dispersion and absorption.

Semiconductor-Laser Physics discusses the underlying physics and operational principles of semiconductor lasers.

Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields in a sense continues the treatment of the earlier volume 6 "e;Geometrical Optics of Inhomogeneous Media"e; in the present book series, by analysing caustics and their fields on the basis of modern catastrophe theory.

Statistical Physics II introduces nonequilibrium theories of statistical mechanics from the viewpoint of the fluctuation-disipation theorem.

The purpose and organisation of this book are described in the preface to the first edition (1988).

During the last decades the knowledge of the magnetic properties of the d transition elements and of their metallic alloys and compounds has increased widely.

The beauty of a knotty oak tree is different from that of a lovely flower.

A volume of this nature containing a collection of papers has been brought out to honour a gentleman - a friend and a colleague - whose work has, to a large extent, advanced and popularized the use of stochastic point processes.

"e;Quantum Chemistry"e; is the course material of a EuropeanSummer School in Quantum Chemistry, organized by Bj|rn O.

he problem of analyzing sequences of images to extract three-dimensional T motion and structure has been at the heart of the research in computer vi- sion for many years.

Statistical Physics I discusses the fundamentals of equilibrium statistical mechanics, focussing on basic physical aspects.

This well-known booklet, now in its third, expanded edition, provides an informal survey of applications of singularity theory in a wide range of areas.

This book describes the Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology held at Jillich in May 1991.

This complementary text provides detailed solutions for the problems that appear in Chapters 2 to 18 of Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics (CTFD), Second Edition.

Der bekannte Astronom Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916) gilt als der Begründer der Astrophysik und als hervorragender Forscher mit einer erstaunlichen Bandbreite seiner Interessen.

Seit den alten Hochkulturen vor etwa 4000 Jahren haben die Sterne die Menschen fasziniert und diese sich bemüht, durch den Bau von Sternwarten mehr über den Sternhimmel herauszufinden.

In the last ten to fifteen years there have been many important developments in the theory of integrable equations.

In diesem Buch, erstmals 1924 bzw.

In this part, we present a survey of mean-periodicity phenomena which arise in connection with classical questions in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and more generally, convolution equations.

Quantum Chromodynamics is a thorough introduction for students in theoretical physics and scientists needing a reference and exercise book in this field.

Greiner's lectures, which underlie these volumes, are internationally noted for their clarity, their completeness and for the effort that he has devoted to making physics an integral whole; his enthusiasm for his science is contagious and shines through almost every page.

The text Quantum Mechanics - An Introduction has found many friends among physics students and researchers so that the need for a third edition has arisen.