Physics

A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestsellerA Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops.

For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985).

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang-and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.

How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world.

Although amorphous semiconductors have been studied for over four decades, many of their properties are not fully understood.

Fusion: The Energy of the Universe, 2e is an essential reference providing basic principles of fusion energy from its history to the issues and realities progressing from the present day energy crisis.

Now in its 7th edition, Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists and engineers are likely to encounter as students and beginning researchers.

The first book to combine satellite and terrestrial positioning techniques - vital for the understanding and development of new technologiesWritten and edited by leading experts in the field, with contributors belonging to the European Commission's FP7 Network of Excellence NEWCOM++ Applications to a wide range of fields, including sensor networks, emergency services, military use, location-based billing, location-based advertising, intelligent transportation, and leisureLocation-aware personal devices and location-based services have become ever more prominent in the past few years, thanks to the significant advances in position location technology.

The Handbook of Ellipsometry is a critical foundation text on an increasingly critical subject.

In the United States alone, deaths due to furniture and bed fires still rank as the top-most category of fire losses.

Few Particle Problems in the Nuclear Interaction emerged from the International Conference on Few Particle Problems in the Nuclear Interaction held in Los Angeles, from August 28-September 1, 1972.

Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz is perhaps best known for his long association with his mentor Lev D Landau, with whom he co-wrote the classic Course of Theoretical Physics, but he was a noted and respected Soviet physicist in his own right.

The three volumes in the PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRON OPTICS Series constitute the first comprehensive treatment of electron optics in over forty years.

Introduction to Biomedical Engineering is a comprehensive survey text for biomedical engineering courses.

Inductively coupled plasma atomic or mass spectrometry is one of the most common techniques for elemental analysis.

Magnetic methods are widely used in exploration, engineering, borehole and global geophysics, and the subjects of this book are the physical and mathematical principles of these methods regardless of the area of application.

Environmental Fluid Dynamics provides an introduction to the principles of environmental fluid dynamics, i.

Although interesting in its own right, due to the ever-increasing use of satellites for communication and navigation, weather in the ionosphere is of great concern.

This comprehensive text provides an understanding of the physical phenomenon behind electrooptics.

Dimensionless quantities, such as p, e, and f are used in mathematics, engineering, physics, and chemistry.

Geobiology is an exciting and rapidly developing research discipline that opens new perspectives in understanding Earth as a system.

This book contains the Proceedings of the 25th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 10th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 8-12, 2003 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki in Japan.

Active geophysical monitoring is an important new method for studying time-evolving structures and states in the tectonically active Earth's lithosphere.

Optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, forty years ago.

This book focuses on functional aspects of nanostructured materials that have a high relevance to immediate applications, such as catalysis, energy harvesting, energy storage, optical properties and surface functionalization via self-assembly.

A volume in the Progress in Optics series, the papers in this book cover a range of topics, including: anamorphic beam shaping for laser and diffuse light; ultra-fast all-optical switching in optical networks; generation of dark hollow beams and their application; and two-photon lasers.

In Nucleation in Condensed Matter, key theoretical models for nucleation are developed and experimental data are used to discuss their range of validity.

As data transfer rates increase within the magnetic recording industry, improvements in device performance and reliability crucially depend on the thorough understanding of nonlinear magnetization dynamics at a sub-nanoscale level.

Environmental Radionuclides presents a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge on the use of radionuclides to study processes and systems in the continental part of the Earth's environment.

The generally accepted definitions of acids and bases together with the generalized definition for the solvent system introduced by the author for the description of both molecular and ionic solvents are discussed.

Geochemical Anomaly and Mineral Prospectivity Mapping in GIS documents and explains, in three parts, geochemical anomaly and mineral prospectivity mapping by using a geographic information system (GIS).

This volume contains five articles presenting reviews of several topics of current research which are likely to be of interest to optical scientists and optical engineers.

Modern Computational Quantum Chemistry is indispensable for research in the chemical sciences.

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy.

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy.

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy.

The third edition of Theory of Simple Liquids is an updated, advanced, but self-contained introduction to the principles of liquid-state theory.

People are immersed in electromagnetic fields from such sources as power lines, domestic appliances, mobile phones, and even electrical storms.

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

Vascular Transport in Plants provides an up-to-date synthesis of new research on the biology of long distance transport processes in plants.

Models of Itinerant Ordering in Crystals is devoted to the mathematical description of interesting phenomena which occur in solids, such as ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism and superconductivity.

The scientific basis of the technique of semiconductor chemical sensors is the main focus of this work.

In the thirty-seven years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science.

If the text you're using for general chemistry seems to lack sufficient mathematics and physics in its presentation of classical mechanics, molecular structure, and statistics, this complementary science series title may be just what you're looking for.

Dynamos is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "e;Dynamos"e;.

The first part of the book provides a pedagogical introduction to the physics of complex systems driven far from equilibrium.

Modeling in Transport Phenomena, Second Edition presents and clearly explains with example problems the basic concepts and their applications to fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, chemical reaction engineering and thermodynamics.

This book discussed fundamental problems in dynamics, which extensively exist in engineering, natural and social sciences.

Environmental problems are becoming an important aspect of our lives as industries grow apace with populations throughout the world.

Light scattering-based methods are used to characterize small particles suspended in water in a wide range of disciplines ranging from oceanography, through medicine, to industry.