Physics

This book is an introduction to contemporary plasma physics that discusses the most relevant recent advances in the field and covers a careful choice of applications to various branches of astrophysics and space science.

The classic work that shaped the thought of a generation with its powerful insights into the true nature of mind and reality.

This book shows how one can combine Yang-Mills gauge symmetry and effective Einstein-Grossmann metric tensors to tackle physical problems at microscopic, macroscopic and super-macroscopic length scales.

Radiation Detection: Concepts, Methods, and Devices provides a modern overview of radiation detection devices and radiation measurement methods.

Optoelectronic devices operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range offer applications in a variety of areas from environmental gas monitoring around oil rigs to the detection of narcotics.

A practical introduction to network science for students across business, cognitive science, neuroscience, sociology, biology, engineering and other disciplines.

This book consists of select proceedings of the National Conference on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations (WMVC 2018).

This book offers a concise yet thorough introduction to the notion of moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.

Providing an introduction to the theory of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, this book discusses fundamental properties of transient and stationary solutions, emphasizing the stability analysis of stationary solutions by means of self-consistency equations, linear stability analysis, and Lyapunov's direct method.

Fluid Mechanics, as a scientific discipline in a modern sense, was established between the last third of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th one.

The use of MATLAB(R) in clinical Medical Physics is continuously increasing, thanks to new technologies and developments in the field.

This symposium provided a forum for interchange of state-of-the-art techniques and databases and for standardization of radiation metrology.

In the past ten years, there has been much progress in understanding the global dynamics of systems with several degrees-of-freedom.

An electrical power system consists of a large number of generation, transmission, and distribution subsystems.

An Up-to-Date Compendium on the Physics and Mathematics of Polarization PhenomenaPolarized Light and the Mueller Matrix Approach thoroughly and cohesively integrates basic concepts of polarization phenomena from the dual viewpoints of the states of polarization of electromagnetic waves and the transformations of these states by the action of material media.

The aim of this book is to explore and understand the activities undertaken by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento, one of Europe's first scientific societies.

Civil Engineering and Energy-Environment focuses on the research of civil engineering, environment resources and energy materials.

This textbook introduces modern techniques based on computer simulation to study materials science.

This textbook is an introduction to Scientific Computing, in which several numerical methods for the computer-based solution of certain classes of mathematical problems are illustrated.

This title was originally published in 1968.

This book is a complete treatment of work done to resolve the problems of position-, current-, and shape-control of plasma in tokamak-type (toroidal) devices being studied as a potential means of commercial energy production by nuclear fusion.

The Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow brings togetherinternational researchers from different fields ranging from physics tocomputer science and engineering to discuss the latest developments intraffic-related systems.

Introduces the basic tools in spectral analysis using numerous examples from the Schrödinger operator theory and various branches of physics.

This book gathers selected papers from the Chinese Materials Conference 2018 (CMC2018) held in Xiamen City, Fujian, China, on July 12-16, 2018.

During the last ten to fifteen years, researchers have made considerable progress in the study of inorganic scintillators.

Reviews in Plasmonics 2015, the second volume of the new book series from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of Plasmonics and closely related disciplines.

This book is your graduate level entrance into battery, fuel cell and solar cell research at synchrotron x-ray sources and free electron lasers.

Vacuum Technology and Applications reviews the most commonly encountered methods for the production, containment, and measurement of subatmospheric pressure.

Developments in the title field have been greatly motivated by the studies of transactinoid elements; selected experiments and their results are presented for visualization.

Readers studying the abstract field of quantum physics need to solve plenty of practical, especially quantitative, problems.

La segunda edición de un libro de texto acompañado por el éxito proporciona a sus autores la rara ocasión de llevar a cabo lo que habían deseado hacer originalmente.

Teil 1 des zweiten Bandes behandelt die Zeit- und Frequenz-Abhängigkeit elektrischer Systeme aus technischer Sicht.

The petrochemical industry is a scientific and engineering field that encompasses the production of a wide range of chemicals and polymers.

This book deals with theoretical mechanics.

The dream of developing a biocomputer should not be dismissed as a sheer fantasy.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels, and discusses the applications of radiation, particularly spallation neutrons and gamma rays.

Theoretical, numerical and experimental studies of transport phenomena in heat and mass transfer are reported in depth in this volume.

Relativity theory is based on a postulate of locality, which means that the past history of the observer is not directly taken into account.

Application of quantum mechanics in physics and chemistry often entails manipulation and evaluation of sums and products of coupling coefficients for the theory of angular momentum.

The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the implosion of financial markets and economies around the globe.

Superstring theory and its successor, M-theory, hold promises of a deeper understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics, the unification of the four fundamental forces, the quantum theory of gravity, the mysteries of quantum black holes, Big Bang cosmology and, ultimately, their complete synthesis in a final theory of physics.

Comparative Biochemistry: A Comprehensive Treatise, Volume VII: Supplementary Volume focuses on the processes, methodologies, and approaches involved in molecular biochemistry.

This monograph solely investigates the Einstein's Photoemission(EP) from Heavily Doped(HD) Quantized Structures on the basis of newly formulated electron dispersion laws.

Foundational research focuses on the theory, but theories are to be related also to other theories, experiments, facts in their domains, data, and to their uses in applications, whether of prediction, control, or explanation.

WAVELETS AND RENORMALIZATION describes the role played by wavelets in Euclidean field theory and classical statistical mechanics.

Designed to serve as a comprehensive resource for performing energy audits in commercial facilities, this revised practical desk reference for energy engineers has been updated and expanded.

This book proposes an introduction to the mathematical modeling of the respiratory system.

In an epoch when particle physics is awaiting a major step forward, the Large Hydron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva will soon be operational.

Describes computational methods for parametric and nonparametric modeling of stochastic dynamics.