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Solid State Physics, Part A

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 6A
  • January 1, 1959
  • K. Lark Horovitz + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 5 9 8 1 - 1

Solid State Physics, Part B

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 6B
  • January 1, 1959
  • K. Lark Horovitz + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 5 9 8 2 - 8

Turning Points in Physics

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1959
  • R.J. Blin-Stoyle + 2 more
  • J. De Boer + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 1 3 9 - 7
Turning Points in Physics is a series of 1958 lectures presented at the Oxford University in Trinity Term. This six-chapter book highlights the interplay between assumptions, theories, and experimental discoveries in physics. The first chapter provides a brief introduction to the physical theory and field physics. The following two chapters cover the basic principles of quantum nature of matter and radiation, as well as the introduction of the probability concept in the field physics. The discussion then shifts to the theory of relativity and the fundamentals of cause and effect. The last chapter focuses on the concept of elementary particle physics. This chapter also explores general topics in physics, including conservation, quantization of change, fermions, bosons, mirror symmetry, gravitation, and masses. This book is directed toward physicists, theorists, and physics teachers and students.

Advances in Space Science

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1959
  • Frederick I. Ordway
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 4 6 2 - 6
Advances in Space Science, Volume 1 brings together research and developments in the astronautical sciences. This volume is composed of six chapters that also cover the field of bioastronautics, which involves the human aspects of space travel. The opening chapter deals with the orbits and interplanetary trajectories and a critical evaluation of interplanetary communications. The next chapters consider the problem of supplying power on board orbital and space vehicles, power being needed for many tasks in space, including the operation of communication systems. The remaining three chapters treat manned space cabin systems, the effects of radiation on man in space, and the nutritional aspects of space flight. This book will be of great value to space scientists, engineers, and researchers.

Evaporation and Droplet Growth in Gaseous Media

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1959
  • N.A. Fuchs
  • R.S. Bradley
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 5 6 3 - 0
Evaporation and Droplet Growth in Gaseous Media deals with the evaporation of droplets of liquid in gaseous media and the reverse process of droplet growth in a medium supersaturated with the vapor of the liquid. Thediscussion is restricted to the kinetics of evaporation and growth of droplets of pure liquids (and heat transfer to the same). Comprised of three chapters, this book first examines the quasi-stationary evaporation and growth of droplets that are motionless relative to the medium and the hydrodynamic factor is absent. The Maxwell equation, the basis of the theory of evaporation of droplets in a gaseous medium, is taken into account. The influence of the Stefan flow and the concentration change at the surface on the rate of evaporation are considered, along with the evaporation of droplets in a vessel with absorbing walls and the fall in temperature of both free evaporating droplets and supported evaporating droplets. The second chapter is devoted to the quasi-stationary evaporation of droplets in a stream of gas, that is, droplets moving relative to the medium. The last chapter focuses on non-stationary evaporation and growth of droplets that either motionless or moving relative to the medium. This monograph will be of interest to students, practitioners, and researchers in inorganic and structural chemistry.

The International Geophysical Year Meetings

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1959
  • M. Nicolet
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 6 3 9 - 2
Annals of the International Geophysical Year, Volume IIB: The International Geophysical Year Meetings provides the general report and resolutions made on four meetings during the International Geophysical Year. This book is composed of four parts encompassing 13 chapters. The first part covers the four CSAGI Antarctic Conferences, followed by the CSAGI Arctic Conference held in Stockholm, Sweden on May 22-25, 1956. The remaining two parts consider the CSAGI Regional and Discipline Conferences. This book is of value to geophysicists and researchers in the field.

Absorption and Dispersion of Ultrasonic Waves

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1959
  • Karl F. Herzfeld + 1 more
  • H. S. W. Massey + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 5 7 0 - 3
Absorption and Dispersion of Ultrasonic Waves focuses on the influence of ultrasonics on molecular processes in liquids and gases, including hydrodynamics, energy exchange, and chemical reactions. The book first offers information on the Stokes-Navier equations of hydrodynamics, as well as equations of motion, viscosity, formal introduction of volume viscosity, and linearized wave equation for a nonviscous fluid. The manuscript then ponders on energy exchange between internal and external degrees of freedom as relaxation phenomenon; effect of slow energy exchange on sound propagation; different ways of evaluating the dispersion curve; and exact calculation of absorption and dispersion. The text examines the effects of chemical reactions, thermodynamic theory of relaxation, and mixtures. The book also evaluates the absorption of high intensity sound waves, ratio of relaxation absorption to classical absorption at maximum, and gas mixtures. Discussions also focus on translational relaxation in monatomic gases, linear triatomic molecules, and results for rotational relaxation. The manuscript is a dependable source of data for readers interested in the absorption and dispersion of ultrasonic waves.

Symposium on Nuclear Sex

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1958
  • D. Robertson Smith + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 5 9 4 - 4
Symposium on Nuclear Sex covers the proceedings of the 1957 Symposium on Nuclear Sex, held at King's College Hospital Medical School. This book is organized into three sections encompassing 22 chapters that consider the problem of developmental sex anomalies and certain cytological aspects. After a brief presentation of the history of chromosomal sex and sex anomalies, this book goes on exploring the genetic and cytological observations related to nuclear sex, with a particular emphasis on the genetic implications of nuclear sexing. The second part deals first with the fundamentals of sex chromosomes and the development of human intersexes. The discussion then shifts to problems in intersexuality, children of homosexuals, transvestism, sexual development disturbances, and the nature of the genetic defect in Klinefelter's syndrome. The third part covers studies of the nuclear sex of a group of teratomas and other sex tumors. This book will prove useful to workers and researchers in the fields related to nuclear sexing including anatomy, biochemistry, biology, clinical medicine, cytology, endocrinology, genetics, pathology, physiology, psychology, and surgery.

Worked Examples in Physics

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1958
  • V. L. Zubov + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Worked Examples in Physics: A Textbook for Private Study consists of worked examples encountered at examinations in secondary schools at Moscow University. The examples for this collection focus on those physical questions, situations, and laws that give rise to the most number of errors. Organized into two parts, this book begins with an overview of several problems that have been specially selected to show in detail the methods of applying the more important laws, which often are not mastered by the student. This text then discusses the general methods of solving problems by means of the resolution and composition of the motion. This book discusses as well a large number of examples that serves to indicate how one may reduce the solution of a complicated problem on curvilinear motion to the solution of a simple and previously solved problem dealing with two independent linear motions. This book is a valuable resource for secondary school students.

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