Physics

The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the nature of science, and the relationships between science, mathematics, technology, society and culture is seldom realised.

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy.

This book contains various experimental and theoretical reports on the status and prospects of one of the most interesting and difficult areas of modern high energy physics - elastic and diffractive scattering.

Modern science has abstracted, as compensation for establishing rigorousness, the complexity of the real world, and has inclined toward oversimpli?

This proceedings contains papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Applied Electrostatics held in Shanghai, China on November 2--5,2004.

This volume provides recent advances in the field of biophysics of membrane proteins.

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This book is a translation of the 8th edition of Prof.

This book addresses the application of methods used in statistical physics to complex systems-from simple phenomenological analogies to more complex aspects, such as correlations, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, the concept of free energy, renormalization group approach and scaling.

The research and its outcomes presented here is devoted to the use of x-ray scattering to study correlated electron systems and magnetism.

This book on mathematical modeling of biological processes includes a wide selection of biological topics that demonstrate the power of mathematics and computational codes in setting up biological processes with a rigorous and predictive framework.

This second edition adds new sections on derivation of dynamic equilibrium equations in unified mechanics theory and solution of an example, derivation of very high cycle fatigue thermodynamic fundamental equation and application/verification with two metal fatigue examples, derivation of thermodynamic fundamental equations for metal corrosion, examples of corrosion - fatigue interaction.

The "e;NATO Advanced Research Workshop on radiation detectors for medical imaging"e;, held in Alushta (Crimea, Ukraine) in September 2005 was a unique event and I am very pleased that the proceedings are published in the prestigious NATO Security Through Science series.

TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt.

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The aim of this advanced textbook is to provide the reader with a comprehensive explanation of the ground state configurations, the spin wave excitations and the equilibrium properties of spin lattices described by the Ising-Heisenberg Hamiltonians in the presence of short (exchange) and long range (dipole) interactions.

This volume is a compilation of lectures delivered at the TASI 2016 summer school, 'Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics', held at the University of Colorado at Boulder in June 2016.

This textbook presents various methods to deal with quantum many-body systems, mainly addressing interacting electrons.

Arsenic-contaminated groundwater is considered one of the world's largest environmental health crises, as more than 300 million people in more than one-third of countries worldwide are at risk of groundwater arsenic poisoning.

Direct Natural Gas Conversion to Value-Added Chemicals comprehensively discusses all major aspects of natural gas conversion and introduces a broad spectrum of recent technological developments.

Many small and medium scale businesses cannot afford to procure expensive cybersecurity tools.

Double and multiple stars are the rule in the stellar population, and single stars the minority, as the abundance of binary systems in the space surrounding the sun shows beyond doubt.

Dieses Lehrbuch zur Strömungsmechanik stützt sich auf die mathematischen und physikalischen Grundkenntnisse der Studenten und bietet sich als Lehrbuch für mittlere Semester an.

This new edition describes the space of quantum states and the theory of quantum entanglement from a geometric perspective.

Computer Graphics: Theory and Practice provides a complete and integrated introduction to this area.

This book is devoted to a fundamental understanding of the fluid dynamic nature of a bubble wake, more specifically the primary wake, in liquids and liquid-solid suspensions, an dto the role it plays in various important flow phenomena of multiphase systems.

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

The unprecedented amount of data produced with high-throughput experimentation forces biologists to employ mathematical representation and computation to glean meaningful information in systems-level biology.

This book is based on the "e;Summer Simulation Multi-Conference"e; (SCSC), which has been a prominent platform for the dissemination of scholarly research in the M&S community for the last 50 years.

'Engineering acoustics' is a teaching textbook that can serve as a tool for self-study and as a compendium for lectures as well.

An Introduction to Elementary Particles, Second Edition aims to give an introduction to the theoretical methods and ideas used to describe how elementary particles behave, as well as interpret some of the phenomena associated with it.

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

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it.

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat.

Jets and plumes are shear flows produced by momentum and buoyancy forces.

A comprehensive introduction to the mathematical description of strings, D-branes and the geometry of strongly curved spacetime.

The main objective of this book is to introduce a student who is familiar with elementary math concepts to select topics in deep learning.

Geodetic datum (including coordinate datum, height datum, depth datum, gravimetry datum) and geodetic systems (including geodetic coordinate system, plane coordinate system, height system, gravimetry system) are the common foundations for every aspect of geomatics.

Metallic systems are ubiquitous in daily life.

This thesis describes an in-depth study of an indolizine-based fluorophore, from understanding of its structure-photophysical property relationship to its application as a useful biological reporter.

Building on Mozumder's and Hatano's Charged Particle and Photon Interactions with Matter: Chemical, Physicochemical, and Biological Consequences with Applications (CRC Press, 2004), Charged Particle and Photon Interactions with Matter: Recent Advances, Applications, and Interfaces expands upon the scientific contents of the previous volume by cover

The theory of electromagnetic beams is presented in a simple and physical way, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text.

This book provides electrical and electronic engineering undergraduate and graduate students and trainees with practical information on grounding-system parameters, and on different methods for measuring soil resistivity and ground resistance.

This book provides extensive and comprehensive information to researchers and academicians who are interested in radionuclide contamination, its sources and environmental impact.

Four centuries ago, Galileo first turned a telescope to look up at the night sky.

This book provides the first consideration of quantum principles in legal decision making.

This textbook serves as an introduction to nonlinear dynamics and fractals for physiological modeling.