Mechanical engineering and materials

This book contains the proceedings of the first Workshop on Interface Phenomena, organized jointly by the surface science groups at Dalhousie University and the University of Maine.

Remarks by JVS.

Procedures for extracting or refining sensitive substances using dense gases have been developed for numerous purposes.

For the last few years astrophysicists and elementary particle physicists have been working jointly on the following fascinating phenomena: 1.

The trend towards miniaturisation of microelectronic devices and the search for exotic new optoelectronic devices based on multilayers confer a crucial role on semiconductor interfaces.

The formation and evolution of complex dynamical structures is one of the most exciting areas of nonlinear physics.

This volume contains the written versions of invited lectures and abstracts of seminars presented at the 26th "e;Universitatswochen fiir Kernphysik"e; (Uni- versity nuclear physics weeks) in Schladming, Austria, in February 1987.

The decision of Springer-Verlag to publish this book in English came as a pleasant surprise.

This volume contains papers which have been presented at the International Sym- posium on Metal Clusters in Heidelberg from April 7-11, 1986.

les Houches This Winter School on "e;The Physics and Fabrication of Microstructures"e; originated with a European industrial decision to investigate in some detail the potential of custom-designed microstructures for new devices.

This volume contains notes based on the lectures delivered at the fourth New Zealand Symposium in Laser Physics, held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, February 10-15, 1986.

The Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble regularly orga- nizes workshops that deal with various applications of neutrons in physics, chemistry, biology and materials science.

All life is based on big molecules, scientifically called "e;mac- romolecules"e;.

In the first volume we based quantum mechanics on the objective description of macroscopic devices.

On three occasions and at different locations, conferences were held to honor the eightieth birthday of Professor Herbert Frohlich: on the 18th December, 1985, in Liverpool, England; on the 14th February, 1986, in Stuttgart, Germany; and on the 8th March, 1986, on the Palm Coast, Florida.

The field of Physical Chemistry has developed through the application of theories and concepts developed by physicists to properties or processes of interest to chemists.

The Winter School held in Les Houches on March 12-21, 1985 was devoted to Semiconductor Heterojunctions and Superlattices, a topic which is recognized as being now one of the most interesting and active fields in semiconductor physics.

The increasing use of advanced composite materials in modem structures of high performance calls for a detailed knowledge of their properties.

This is the final volume of Heisenberg's Collected Works.

The first edition of this book had been written with the special aim to provide the necessary information for an understanding of the deformation and scission of chain molecules and its role in polymer fracture.

Our understanding of the basic processes of crystal growth has meanwhile reached the level of maturity at least in the phenomenological concepts.

The present monograph is intended as an introduction into a field which certainly did not receive proper attention in the past.

This is a textbook written for use in a graduate-level course for students of mechanics and engineering science.

This book contains the invited papers of an international symposium on synergetics; which was held at Schlol3 Elmau, Bavaria, FRG, April 27 to May 1, 1981.

The INFOS 81 Conference on Insulating Films on Semiconductors was held at the University of Erlangen-NUrnberg in Erlangen from 27 to 29 April 1981.

In this chapter, first the parametric principle is illustrated by two simple examples, one mechanical and one electrical.

This conference on liquid crystals of one- and two-dimensional order and their applications is the third in a series of European conferences devoted mainly to smectic liquid crystals.

Many excellent volumes have been written on the chemistry of cellulose and its derivatives.

Surface science has experienced an impressive growth in the last two decades.

Hemolysis during filtration through micropores studied by Chien et al.

Group Technology (GT) as a manufacturing concept has gained steady interest within the machine building industry all over the world.

The Second Conference of the International Society of Hemorheology took place under the auspices of the University of Heidelberg from July 27 - August 1,1969 in Heidel- berg.

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which has evolved only within the last 20 years, has become one of the very important tools in chemistry and physics.

The lectures here reported were first delivered in August and September, 1965, for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi- neering at syracuse University, New York under the sponsorship of the New York State Science and Technology Foundation.

This unusual book, richly illustrated with 29 colour illustrations and about 200 line drawings, explores the relationship between classical tessellations and three-manifolds.

This book is a result of the lectures and discussions during the conference "e;Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling"e;.

I am very happy to accept the translators' invitation to write a few lines of introduction to this book.