Physics

In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates.

This volume of important papers by one the world's leading astrophysicists provides a sweeping survey of the incisive and exciting applications of nuclear and particle physics to a wide range of problems in astrophysics and cosmology.

This Brief deals with Performance Evaluation Criteria (PEC) for heat exchangers, single phase flow, objective function and constraints, algebraic formulation, constant flow rate, fixed flow area, thermal resistance, heat exchanger effectiveness, relations for St and f, finned tube banks, variations of PEC, reduced exchanger flow rate, exergy based PEC, PEC for two-phase heat exchangers, work consuming, work producing and heat actuated systems.

In this book, some of the principal investigators of the phenomena have reviewed their successes.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of fluid mechanical, thermal and physico-chemical aspects of drop-surface interactions.

The physics of plasmas is an extremely rich and complex subject as the variety of topics addressed in this book demonstrates.

One of the first books to approach magnetism from a metal physics perspective, Permanent Magnetism presents research ideas that are being translated into commercial reality for ferrite and Nd-Fe-B magnets, and follows the discovery of interstitial, intermetallic materials.

In the first volume, Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics, the authors lay down a foundation for biophysics study.

Biomechanics is concerned with the response of living matter to forces, and its study has taken long strides in recent years.

This book describes the generalized Sturmian method, which offers a fresh approach to the calculation of atomic spectra.

This book summarizes recent developments in the research area of quantum gravity phenomenology.

Hyper-Structured Molecules are topologically well-defined molecules in two or three dimensions, expected to show novel quantum effects in the molecular sequences.

From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars.

The monograph text is based on lectures delivered by author during many years for students of Applied Iechanics Department of Bauman Ioscow State Technical University.

This newly corrected, highly acclaimed text offers intermediate-level juniors and first-year graduate students of physics a rigorous treatment of classical electromagnetics.

Lectures on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics offers an introduction to several topics in geophysical fluid dynamics, including the theory of large-scale ocean circulation, geostrophic turbulence, and Hamiltonian fluid dynamics.

This book provides a thorough understanding of fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer.

This textbook equips Masters' students studying Physics and Astronomy with the necessary mathematical tools to understand the basics of General Relativity and its applications.

The 4th edition of this highly-regarded text provides a comprehensive introduction to modern particle physics.

Power System SCADA and Smart Grids brings together in one concise volume the fundamentals and possible application functions of power system supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA).

NASA's Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots.

In these proceedings, it is shown that thermodynamical concepts are not 'old fashioned' but still are most useful at the frontiers of modern science.

This book covers all aspects of head-related transfer function (HRTF), from the fundamentals through to the latest applications, such as 3D sound systems.

Each year, the Annual BCI Research Award recognizes the top new projects in brain-computer interface (BCI) research.

The constantly growing demand for energy, as well as the realization during the past decade that fossil energy reserves to satisfy ever- increasing energy consumption are limited, have helped, as part of the search for alternative energy sources, to bring the subject of geothermics to its present level of significance.

This fourth edition of Peter Bernath's successful Spectra of Atoms and Molecules is designed to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students a working knowledge of the vast field of spectroscopy.

This book covers main properties of the excitation spectrum in superfluid 4He and the thermodynamics determined by the spectrum.

This volume collects papers based on lectures given at the XL Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics, held in Bialowieza, Poland in July 2023.

Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between gravitation and high energy physics still remain open.

Multi-phase flows are part of our natural environment such as tornadoes, typhoons, air and water pollution and volcanic activities as well as part of industrial technology such as power plants, combustion engines, propulsion systems, or chemical and biological industry.

This book describes a body of work whose ultimate goal is to optimize the design of microbatteries.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Optics and Electro-optics, ICOL-2019, held at Dehradun in India.

This book presents state-of-the-art coverage of synthesis of advanced functional materials.

High-resolution images of phytoplankton cells such as diatoms or desmids, which are useful for monitoring water quality, can now be provided by digital microscopes, facilitating the automated analysis and identification of specimens.

The European Workshop on White Dwarfs was initiated by Prof.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in 2D MoS2 materials synthesis, properties, and mimics of various applications.

Resulting from the authors' deep research into these two pre-Shuttle astronaut groups, many intriguing and untold stories behind the selection process are revealed in the book.

This book provides the foundations of analytical thermodynamics for graduate level.

This is the second in a series of three proceedings of the 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC).

Fundamentals of Ceramics presents readers with an exceptionally clear and comprehensive introduction to ceramic science.

This book covers advances in Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) and will prove useful to researchers and professionals in the semiconductor devices areas.

This book derives and analyzes all solutions to the Kepler problem with dark energy (DE), presenting significant results such as: (a) all radial infinite motions obey Hubble's law at large times; (b) all orbital infinite motions are asymptotically radial and obey Hubble's law; (c) infinite orbital motions strongly dominate the finite ones.

This thesis covers the few-cycle laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a laser-generated plasma.

Investigation of the interplanetary dust cloud is characterized by contributions from quite different methods and fields, such as research on zodiacal light, meteors, micrometeoroids, asteroids, and comets.

This volume represents the most important "e;deliverable"e; of the European-funded project Radio-Past (www.

More than ten years after its discovery, still relatively little is known about the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle.

Defect control in semiconductors is a key technology for realizing the ultimate possibilities of modern electronics.

This book highlights the mathematical and physical properties of acoustical sources with singularities located in the complex plane and presents the application of such special elements to solve acoustical radiation and scattering problems.

The literature so far has reviewed only single-crystal and, up to some extent, optical ceramic scintillators.

Ground magnetometers have played a major role in the development of space science by allowing researchers to remotely measure currents that define the dynamics of the magnetosphere and Earth's ionosphere.