Physics

Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields in a sense continues the treatment of the earlier volume 6 "e;Geometrical Optics of Inhomogeneous Media"e; by analysing caustics and their fields on the basis of modern catastrophe theory.

This textbook is intended as an introduction to surface science for graduate students.

Quantum chemistry and solid-state theory are two importantrelated fields ofresearch that have grown up with almost nocross communication.

While the first two volumes on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and its related scanning probe (SXM) methods have mainly concentrated on intro- ducing the experimental techniques, as well as their various applications in different research fields, this third volume is exclusively devoted to the theory of STM and related SXM methods.

The second edition of this book again enjoyed a very positive reception from both uni- versity teachers and students.

Graduate students who want to become familiar with advanced computational strategies in classical and quantum dynamics will find here both the fundamentals of a standard course and a detailed treatment of the time-dependent oscillator, Chern-Simons mechanics, the Maslov anomaly and the Berry phase, together with many worked examples throughout the text.

The history of applications of space group theory to solid state physics goes back more than five decades.

In crystals as diverse as sodium chloride, silicon dioxide,sold xenon, pyrene, arsenic triselenide, and silverchloride, the fundamental electronicexcitation (exciton) islocalized within its own lattice distortion field veryshortly after its creation.

Classical irreversible thermodynamics, as developed by Onsager, Prigogine and many other authors, is based on the local-equilibrium hypothesis.

Now in its 2nd edition, Quantum Mechanics on the PC presents the most up-to-date approach to elementary quantum mechanics.

"e;Signal Processing and Systems Theory"e; is concerned with thestudy of H-optimization for digital signal processing anddiscrete-time control systems.

Atomic and molecular spectroscopy has provided basic information leading to the development of quantum mechanics and to the understanding of the building blocks of matter.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy II, like its predecessor,presents detailed and comprehensive accounts of the basicprinciples and broad range of applications of STM andrelated scanning probe techniques.

Marine science today is an area of rapid expansion.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy I provides a unique introduction to a novel and fascinating technique that produces beautiful images of nature on an atomic scale.

Quantum chemistry and solid-state theory are two important related fields of research that have grown up with almost no cross communication.

Four years aga Walter Thirring suggested to me that it would be desirable to have a book describing recent results of the "e;algebraic approach"e; to quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.

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This textbook is based on a lecture course in synergetics given at the University of Moscow.

This new edition incorporates corrections of all known typographical errors in the first edition, as well as some more substantive changes.

This book gives an introduction to the mathematical theory of cooperative behavior in active systems of various origins, both natural and artificial.

Atomic and molecular spectroscopy has provided basic information leading to the development of quantum mechanics and to the understanding of the building blocks of matter.

The mysteries of the human mind have fascinated scientists and philosophers alike for centuries.

In recent decades solid state physics has seen many dramatic new developments and has become one of the largest independent branches of physics.

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This fourth edition contains a few additional figures.

This book aims at providing graduate students and researchers with funda- mental knowledge indispensable for entering the new field of "e;microclus- 3 ters"e;.

Laser-Assisted Microtechnology deals with laser applications to a wide variety of problems in microelectronic design and fabrication.

The experimental discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the end of 1981 by Tsui, Stormer and Gossard was absolutely unexpected since, at this time, no theoretical work existed that could predict new struc- tures in the magnetotransport coefficients under conditions representing the extreme quantum limit.

Computers play an increasingly important role in many of today's activities, and correspondingly physicists find employment after graduation in computer- related jobs, often quite remote from their physics education.

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Electrophotography (also called xerography), the technology inside the famil- iar copier, has become increasingly important to modern society.

We began planning and writing this book in the late 1970s at the suggestion of Manuel Cardona and Helmut Lotsch.

The first guided-wave components that employed signals in the form of light beams traveling along thin films were fabricated a little more than two decades ago.

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Everyone knows that symmetry is fundamentally important in physics.

Traditional point of view: pinched manifolds 147 Almost flat pinching 148 Coarse point of view: compactness theorems of Gromov and Cheeger 149 K.

Dieses Lehrbuch wendet sich an Studenten der Physik, der Naturwissenschaften oder der Elektrotechnik ab 3.

Atomic physics and its underlying quantum theory are the point of departure for many modern areas of physics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, and even electrical engineering.

Lasers, having proven useful in such diverse areas as high- resolution spectroscopy and the guiding of ferryboats, are cur- rently enjoying great popularity among materials scientists and engineers.

This book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to excitation-contraction-coupling in smooth and striated mus- cles, including the myocardium.

Appropriately for a book having the title "e;Computer Simulation Methods in Theoretical Physics"e;, this book begins with a disclai- mer.

Image processing is an applications area.

A basic skill in probability is practically demanded nowadays in many bran- ches of optics, especially in image science.

The present set of chapters by members of the staff of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory deals with the basic fields of research concerned with radio astronomy outside the solar system.

This book on "e;Polymer Fracture"e; might as well have been called "e;Kinetic Theory of Polymer Fracture"e;.