Physics

Long Wave Polar Modes in Semiconductor Heterostructures is concerned with the study of polar optical modes in semiconductor heterostructures from a phenomenological approach and aims to simplify the model of lattice dynamics calculations.

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Ray, wave and quantum concepts are central to diverse and seemingly incompatible models of light.

It has been recognised recently that the strange features of the quantum world could be used for new information transmission or processing functions such as quantum cryptography or, more ambitiously, quantum computing.

This latest collection of proceedings provides a state of the art review of research on inverse problems in engineering mechanics.

Medical electronics, or more specifically the instrumentation used in physiological measurement, has changed significantly over the last few years.

This book gives readers a coherent picture of waves in disordered media, including multiple scattered waves.

Volcanic earthquakes represent the main and often the only instrument to forecast volcanic eruptions.

Learning by experience is both a part of the daily life and the exploration life.

Industrial manufacturers are increasingly using very high pressure water jets for the cleaning and breaking up of materials.

Research advances in III-nitride semiconductor materials and device have led to an exponential increase in activity directed towards electronic and optoelectronic applications.

This book explores the fascinating field of high-temperature superconductivity.

The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the diversity and complexity of device applications where vacuum is required to support either high voltages or high electric fields.

Hearing is a comprehensive, authoritative reference work covering both the physiological and perceptual aspects of hearing.

This series provides engineers with vapor pressure data for process design, production, and environmental applications.

The Handbook of Vacuum Technology consists of the latest innovations in vacuum science and technology with a strong orientation towards the vacuum practitioner.

This volume in the Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids is the first and only book to provide comprehensive coverage of refractive index and thermo-optic coefficients.

This reference provides engineers with values for thermal conductivity as a function of temperature for the major organic compounds.

This reference provides engineers with values for thermal conductivity as a function of temperature for the major organic compounds.

This reference provides engineers with values for thermal conductivity as a function of temperature for the major organic compounds.

The field of superconductivity has tremendous potential for growth and further development in industrial applications.

The Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics is a compendium of essays that provides a survey of the major topics in the subject.

This handbook covers computational fluid dynamics from fundamentals to applications.

This book, an abridgment of Volumes I and II of the highly respected Group Theory in Physics, presents a carefully constructed introduction to group theory and its applications in physics.

Godunov-type schemes appear as good candidates for the next generation of commercial modelling software packages, the capability of which to handle discontinuous solution will be a basic requirement.

Many Neogene hydrothermal ore deposits have been formed on and near the Japanese islands from the middle Miocene to the present day and today many subaerial and submarine active geothermal systems are active.

This book is an edited volume of nine papers covering the different variants of the generalized multipole techniques (GMT).

Fuzzy Logic has gained increasing acceptance as a way to deal with complexity and uncertainty in many areas of science and engineering.

The contributors to this text, who are all biochemists who worked during the 1950s and 60s, describe what appears to them to be the conceptually significant developments in biochemistry since the mid 1950s and how these were achieved.

Fundamentals and Technology of Combustion contains brief descriptions of combustion fundamental processes, followed by an extensive survey of the combustion research technology.

This book describes the physical and chemical effects of radiation interaction with matter.

Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics emphasizes the interrelationships of physical and dynamical meteorology.

The developments in the field of ocean acoustics over recent years make this book an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields.

This fourth volume in the series on biochemistry looks at foundations in modern biochemistry.

The idea for this book came out of the EURESCO Conference on High Performance Fibers: Euroconference on Fiber Fracture in 2000.

This volume provides an overview of modern acoustical techniques for the measurement of mechanical properties.

Surface science has a wide range of applications that include semiconductor processing, catalysis, vacuum technology, microelectronics, flat-panel displays, compact disks, televisions, computers, environmental monitoring of pollutants, biomaterials, artificial joints, soft tissues, food safety, pharmacy, and many more.

Volume 36 provides an extensive introduction to magnetic imaging,including theory and practice, utilizing a wide range of magnetic sensitive imaging methods.

This is a guide for the system designers and installers faced with the day-to-day issues of achieving EMC, and will be found valuable across a wide range of roles and sectors, including process control, manufacturing, medical, IT and building management.

Following the Boltzmann-Gibbs approach to statistical mechanics, this new edition of Dr ter Haar's important textbook, Elements of Statistical Mechanics, provides undergraduates and more senior academics with a thorough introduction to the subject.

As it results from the very nature of things, the spherical symmetry of the surrounding of a site in a crystal lattice or an atom in a molecule can never occur.

This book serves two purposes: first to introduce readers to the concepts of geometrical optics, physical optics and techniques of optical imaging and image processing, and secondly to provide them with experience in modeling the theory and applications using the commonly used software tool MATLAB(R).

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning optical microscopy for scientists and engineers.

This book was primarily written for an audience that has heard about neural networks or has had some experience with the algorithms, but would like to gain a deeper understanding of the fundamental material.

Computational Electromagnetism refers to the modern concept of computer-aided analysis, and design, of virtually all electric devices such as motors, machines, transformers, etc.

During the past fifteen years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of different surfaces whose structures have been determined experimentally.

This volume emphasises studies related to classical Stefan problems.

Knowledge of thc chemical behavior of trace compounds in the atmosphere has grown steadily, and sometimes even spectacularly, in recent decades.

The first of its kind, this volume presents the latest research findings on the chaperonins, the best studied family of a class of proteins known as molecular chaperones.

Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems Comprehensive resource offering knowledge on charge and energy transfer dynamics in molecular systems and nanostructures Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems provides a unified description of different charge and energy transfer phenomena in molecular systems with emphasis on the theory, bridging the regimes of coherent and dissipative dynamics and thus presenting classic rate theories as well as modern treatments of ultrafast phenomena.