Physics

The book gives an insight into today's operational measurement technology including analysis technology, without claiming to be complete.

X-ray experiments have been used widely in materials science, and conventional spectroscopy has been based on linear responses in light-matter interactions.

This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period.

The Asian Monsoon describes the causes, evolution and far-reaching effects of this dramatic climatic phenomenon.

Ionization and Transition Probabilities is the first volume in Atomic Inner Shell Processes which describes the relative status of the physics of atomic inner shells.

This book offers a thorough technical elaboration and philosophical defense of an objectivist informational interpretation of quantum mechanics according to which its novel content is located in its kinematical framework, that is, in how the theory describes systems independently of the specifics of their dynamics.

This is the first book to cover actinide nano research.

Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

The 2007 Abel Symposium took place at the University of Oslo in August 2007.

The first Asian Accelerator School (AAS) was organised to show the rapid development of accelerator sciences based on electron storage rings in Asia.

This textbook is the result of the enhancement of several courses on non-equilibrium statistics, stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations, anomalous diffusion and disorder.

Physics of High Temperature Plasmas, Second Edition focuses on plasma physics and the advances in this field.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in simulation on supercomputers.

The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification.

Metal removal processes - cutting and grinding in this book - are an integral part of a large number of manufacturing systems, either as the primary manufacturing process, or as an important part of preparing the tooling for other manufacturing processes.

These proceedings are devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as neutrino and astroparticle physics, tests of the standard model and beyond, and hadron physics.

This book covers varied aspects of environmental contaminants and their effect on the living organisms.

Systems of strongly correlated electrons are at the heart of recent developments in condensed matter theory.

Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic.

Popular science readers embrace epics-the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social.

Audisee(R) eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

Electronic device usage has increased considerably in the past two decades.

Be prepared for exam day with Barron's.

Fluid Transport: Pipes, part of the Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering set, provides a description and calculation of the essential equipment used for fluid transport.

The development of ion traps has spurred significant experimental activities able to link measurable quantities to the most fundamental aspects of physics.

A comprehensive review of recent advances and new directions in high pressure mineral research using static and dynamic compression methods.

Some Problems of Chemical Kinetics and Reactivity discusses two types of explosion in detail.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of mathematical theories and research results on solitons, presenting related mathematical methods and applications as well as numerical experiments.

Treats certain problems and methods of theoretical physics and astrophysics which are associated with microscopic and macroscopic electrodynamics and material concerning the theory of transition radiation and transition scattering.

The occurrence of superconductivity among the d- and f-band metals remains one of the unsolved problems of physics.

This book is based on a series of lectures for an Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) master's degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology at Padova University.

The emergence of modern physics in the first three decades of the 20th century was accompanied by a loss of determinism.

Modern physics is the post-Newtonian concept of physics.

An accessible introduction to thermodynamics for undergraduate biology and biochemistry students.

The day-to-day world of crude oil traders is not usually open to outsiders.

Wave breaking is a commonly occurring phenomena associated with wave motion in fluids, often inducing significant effects which are of fundamental and technological importance, A familiar illustration is provided with white-capping and microbreaking of the wind-driven ocean sUrface waves, which is believed to play an important part in the transfers of momentum, mass and heat across the air-sea interface, as well as in the production of underwater ambient noise and augmented microwave backscatter.

Physical scientists are problem solvers.

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Volume 68, provides a comprehensive compilation of recent developments in a field that is in a state of rapid growth, as new experimental and theoretical techniques are used on many problems, both old and new.

This book presents contributions to the 18th biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association (STAB).

This volume contains eight state of the art contributions on mathematical aspects and applications of fast boundary element methods in engineering and industry.

An essential guide to solid state physics through the lens of dimensionality and symmetry Foundations of Solid State Physics introduces the essential topics of solid state physics as taught globally with a focus on understanding the properties of solids from the viewpoint of dimensionality and symmetry.

Fluid mechanics is an important scientific field with various industrial applications for flows or energy consumption and efficiency issues.