Physics

Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information with unparalleled power and precision.

This textbook is a product of William Bennett's work in developing and teaching a course on the physics of music at Yale University to a diverse audience of musicians and science students in the same class.

This book reviews the current state-of-the art of single layer silicene up to thicker silicon nanosheets, and their structure, properties and potential applications.

Principles of Dynamics presents classical dynamics primarily as an exemplar of scientific theory and method.

The Springer VDI Heat Atlas (VDI Warmeatlas) is one of the most important established books in matters of heat transfer engineering.

In leicht verständlicher Weise werden klassische Grundlagen bis hin zur aktuellen Forschung vermittelt.

The theory of quantum mechanics continues to appear arbitrary and abstruse to new students; and to many veterans, it has become acceptable and useable only because it is familiar.

This new edition presents a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the concepts and methods in contemporary condensed matter physics, emphasizing topics that can be treated by quantum mechanical methods.

In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space exploration.

This book has emerged from a meeting held during the week of May 29 to June 2, 1989, at St.

Continues Its Tradition of Excellence Since 1965!

Developing clean energy and utilizing waste energy has become increasingly vital.

This book collects a selection of papers presented at ELECTRIMACS 2019 - The 13th international conference of the IMACS TC1 Committee, held in Salerno, Italy, on 21st-23rd May 2019.

This book contains the lectures delivered at the Second Paris Cosmology Colloquium (second 'Journee Cosmologie') held at the Observatoire de Paris from June 2 to 4, 1994.

The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith.

Moving inertial loads are applied to structures in civil engineering, robotics, and mechanical engineering.

This volume is devoted to the topic of "e;Monolayer and Sub- monolayer Helium Films,"e; which was the subject of a symposium held at Stevens Institute of Technology, June 7th and 8th, 1973.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This volume focuses on the following topics: DIS at small x and structure functions, diffractive events and the nature of the Pomeron, hadronic final states, photoproduction and DIS at low Q2 and vector meson production.

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

Collecting together contributed lectures and mini-courses, this book details the research presented in a special semester titled "e;Geometric mechanics - variational and stochastic methods"e; run in the first half of 2015 at the Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli (CIB) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

Computational modeling can provide a wealth of insight into how energy flow in proteins mediates protein function.

Colorimetry, the science of quantitvely describing color, is essential for color reproduction technology.

This book describes the revolutionary capabilities of new shock fitting algorithms; a great improvement in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for high-speed numerical simulations.

This volume offers a fundamentally different way of conceptualizing time and reality.

Die Photonik beschäftigt sich mit der kontrollierten Erzeugung, Ausbreitung, Manipulation und Detektion von – vorwiegend kohärenten – Lichtfeldern.

In this volume the following topics are discussed: existing and potential applications of quasicrystals, surface and interface properties of quasicrystals, and potential new quasicrystalline materials.

The book is very different from other books devoted to quantum field theory, both in the style of exposition and in the choice of topics.

Since the first date of publication of this book in 1991, the subject of phosphors and luminescence has assumed even more importance in the overall scheme of technological development.

Die schädigende aber auch nutzbringende Wirkung ionisierender Strahlung rur den Menschen ist seit Beginn dieses Jahrhunderts bekannt.

The author approaches an old classic problem - the existence of solutions of Navier-Stokes equations.

Na Channels from Phyla to Function, the latest volume in the Current Topics in Membranes series, is targeted toward scientists and researchers in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology, providing the necessary membrane research to assist them in discovering the current state of a particular field and in learning where that field is heading.

This thesis studies various aspects of non-critical strings both as an example of a non-trivial and solvable model of quantum gravity and as a consistent approximation to the confining flux tube in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

Assuming an elementary knowledge of quantum and statistical physics, this book provides a comprehensive guide to principal physical properties of condensed matter, as well as the underlying theory necessary for a proper understanding of their origins.

The basic principles and mechanism of shape memory polymers, classification of shape memory polymers, and related characterization techniques are illustrated.

This book highlights the latest advances in stochastic processes, probability theory, mathematical statistics, engineering mathematics and algebraic structures, focusing on mathematical models, structures, concepts, problems and computational methods and algorithms important in modern technology, engineering and natural sciences applications.

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering.

This thesis focuses on the theoretical description of electro-osmosis of polymer solutions.

An objective, dynamic and physically justified concept of information is elaborated starting from Shannon's concept of entropy and applied to information technology, artificial intelligence (consciousness) and thermodynamics.

Resonance Acoustic Spectroscopy deals with the analysis ofwaves generated in an elastic body by a plane harmonicacoustic wave.

Physics is that branch of science, which deals with natural phenomena, and physical properties of matter and their relations with other bodies.

This up-to-date textbook on mathematical methods of physics is designed for a one-semester graduate or two-semester advanced undergraduate course.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e;R@lativistic and Electron Correlation Effects in Molecules and Solids"e;, co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) was held Aug 10- 21, 1992 at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.

Presents in a systematic and unified manner the ray method, in its various forms, for studying nonlinear wave propagation in situations of physical interest, essentially fluid dynamics and plasma physics.

Since the first edition of "e;Scanning 'funneling Microscopy I"e; has been pub- lished, considerable progress has been made in the application of STM to the various classes of materials treated in this volume, most notably in the field of adsorbates and molecular systems.

This book describes signal propagation in single-mode optical fibres for telecommunication applications.