Archive for July, 2008
Chaos In The Cosmos: New Insights Into The Universe - Barry Parker
Title: Chaos In The Cosmos: New Insights Into The Universe
Author: Barry Parker
Pages: 320 pages
Publisher: Basic Books (September 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0738206318
ISBN-13: 978-0738206318
Book Description
The concept of chaos has brought a revolution to modern science. In place of their once confident pretensions to complete knowledge of the universe–at least theoretically–scientists have been forced by chaos to admit that [...]
Fundamentals and Applications of Ultrasonic Waves (Pure and Applied Physics) - J. David N. Cheeke
Title: Fundamentals and Applications of Ultrasonic Waves (Pure and Applied Physics)
Author: J. David N. Cheeke
Pages: 480 pages
Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (April 18, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849301300
ISBN-13: 978-0849301308
Book Description
Ultrasonics. A subject with applications across all the basic sciences, engineering, medicine, and oceanography, yet even the broader topic of acoustics is now rarely offered at undergraduate levels. Ultrasonics [...]
Encyclopedia Dictionary of Condensed Matter Physics - Franco Bassani
Title: Encyclopedia Dictionary of Condensed Matter Physics
Editor: Franco Bassani
Pages: 3000 pages
Publisher: Academic Press (August 23, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0122276108
ISBN-13: 978-0122276101
Book Description
The work provides solid coverage in the fundamental theoretical aspects of the subject, with carefully planned cross-linking and structuring to give the user the potential to gain a solid grounding in the theoretical aspects of quantum [...]
Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids - Bodie Douglas, Shih-Ming Ho
Title: Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids
Authors: Bodie Douglas, Shih-Ming Ho
Pages: 346 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 9, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387261478
ISBN-13: 978-0387261478
Book Description
Crystallographers have an elegant system using definitive notation for describing crystal structures, but it does not serve as well the needs of many others working with crystalline solids. Most chemists, metallurgists, mineralogists, geologists [...]
Stars and Planets (Read It Yourself - Level 2) - Lorraine Horsley
Title: Stars and Planets (Read It Yourself - Level 2)
Author: Lorraine Horsley
Pages: 32 pages
Publisher: Ladybird Books Ltd (August 26, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1844222764
ISBN-13: 978-1844222766
Simulating Hamiltonian Dynamics (Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics) - Benedict Leimkuhler, Sebastian Reich
Title: Simulating Hamiltonian Dynamics (Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics)
Authors: Benedict Leimkuhler, Sebastian Reich
Pages: 379 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 14, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521772907
ISBN-13: 978-0521772907
Book Description
The simulation of matter by direct computation of individual atomic motions has seen huge growth in recent years: it has become an important element in the design of new [...]
Properties of Silicon Germanium and SiGe: Carbon (Emis Datareviews, 24) - Erich Kasper, K. Lyutovich
Title: Properties of Silicon Germanium and SiGe: Carbon (Emis Datareviews, 24)
Editors: Erich Kasper, K. Lyutovich
Pages: 372 pages
Publisher: INSPEC, Inc. (May 19, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0852967837
ISBN-13: 978-0852967836
Book Description
The industrial relevance of SiGe has increased dramatically in the last few years with the manufacture of heterojunction bipolar ciruits for the commercial wireless and datacomms markets by IBM and [...]
Physics with MAPLE: The Computer Algebra Resource for Mathematical Methods in Physics - Frank Y. Wang
Title: Physics with MAPLE: The Computer Algebra Resource for Mathematical Methods in Physics
Author: Frank Y. Wang
Pages: 625 pages
Publisher: Wiley-VCH (April 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3527406409
ISBN-13: 978-3527406401
Book Description
Written by an experienced physicist who is active in applying computer algebra to relativistic astrophysics and education, this is the resource for mathematical methods in physics using MapleTM and MathematicaTM. [...]
Liquid Crystalline Polymers - Xin-Jiu Wang, Qi-Feng Zhou
Title: Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Authors: Xin-Jiu Wang, Qi-Feng Zhou
Pages: 388 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company (June 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9812384103
ISBN-13: 978-9812384102
Book Description
Covers the concept of liquid crystals, the theoretical description of liquid crystalline polymers, molecular engineering and phase identification. Last two chapters summarize the properties and applications of liquid crystalline polymers.
Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions - David Morin
Title: Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions
Author: David Morin
Pages: 738 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 4, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521876222
ISBN-13: 978-0521876223
Book Description
This textbook covers all the standard introductory topics in classical mechanics, including Newton’s laws, oscillations, energy, momentum, angular momentum, planetary motion, and special relativity. It also explores more advanced topics, such [...]