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Physics titles offer comprehensive research and advancements across the fundamental and applied areas of physical science. From quantum mechanics and particle physics to astrophysics and materials science, these titles drive innovation and deepen understanding of the principles governing the universe. Essential for researchers, educators, and students, this collection supports scientific progress and practical applications across a diverse range of physics disciplines.

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    • Mechanics

      • 1st Edition
      • June 3, 2016
      • Arnold Sommerfeld
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 6 5 4 6 7 0 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 2 1 4 3 0 6

    • Surface Contamination

      • 1st Edition
      • October 27, 2016
      • B. R. Fish
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 5 4 8 7 9
      Surface Contamination presents the proceedings of first International Symposium on Surface Contamination, held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee in June 1964. The meeting discusses the potential hazards brought about by noxious contaminants on surfaces; the effects of contamination to human health and safety; and the integrity of scientific and technical machinery and products in meeting the exacting requirements. The book contains the work of experts from different technical and administrative disciplines. Areas covered include fundamental research on redispersible and evaporable contamination, including radioactive, biological, chemical, and abrasive contaminants. Administrative and technical problems on radioactive surface contamination control criteria; measurement techniques; environmental control of surface contamination; dissemination of airborne microorganisms; radioactive contamination control applications; biological and chemical surface contamination; insurance and economics; and decontamination are tackled as well. The text will be a good source of information for ecologists, environmentalists, chemists, biologists, students, and policymakers.

    • K Meson Leptonic Decays

      • 1st Edition
      • October 27, 2016
      • J. Bailey + 2 more
      • D. M. Brink + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 1 5 7 6 6 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 3 9 8 2 1
      Progress in Nuclear Physics, Volume 12, Part 1: K Meson Leptonic Decay: The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon and Related Topics focuses on K Meson leptonic decay. The volume first discusses K Meson leptonic decay, including weak hadronic current, polarization of the muon, form of coupling, rate of partial decay, and density function of the Dalitz plot. The text then takes a look at the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and other topics. The theory of the anomalous magnetic moment of electrons and muon and clock paradox, including muon and special relativity and lifetime of the muon in flight, are underscored. Experiments on the CERN muon storage ring and g-2 measurements are also explained. Numerical calculations and table representations showing the leptonic decay are then presented. The book is a dependable source of data for readers interested in the study of K Meson leptonic decay.

    • Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions

      • 1st Edition
      • October 27, 2016
      • Ola Dahlman + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 4 4 1 6 0 4 9
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 3 2 7 4 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 6 5 1 6 5
      Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions focuses on the checking of underground nuclear explosions, including the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB), seismological stations, earthquake-source models, and seismicity. The publication first elaborates on test-ban negotiations, nuclear explosions, seismological background, and explosions and earthquakes as seismic sources. Concerns cover comparison between explosion-source and earthquake-source models, theoretical calculation of seismic waves, earth structure, seismicity, nuclear test activities, bomb designs, and disarmament treaties. The manuscript then tackles seismological stations, detection, event definition and location, depth estimation, and identification. Topics include multistation discriminants, statistical aspects, long-period and short-period signals, near distances, location by a network of stations, international data exchange, station detection capabilities, and station networks. The book examines the monitoring of a comprehensive test-ban treaty, nonseismological identification, evasion, peaceful nuclear explosions, and yield estimation. The text is a dependable reference for researchers interested in the monitoring of underground nuclear explosions.

    • External Magnetic Field Effects on Hydrothermal Treatment of Nanofluid

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2016
      • Mohsen Sheikholeslami + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 4 3 1 3 8 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 4 3 1 7 7 4
      This book seeks to comprehensively cover recent progress in computational fluid dynamics and nonlinear science and its applications to MHD and FHD nanofluid flow and heat transfer. The book will be a valuable reference source to researchers in various fields, including materials science, nanotechnology, mathematics, physics, information science, engineering and medicine, seeing to understand the impact of external magnetic fields on the hydrothermal behavior of nanofluids in order to solve a wide variety of theoretical and practical problems.

    • Nuclear Reactions

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • I. E. McCarthy
      • D. ter Haar
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 0 6 6 2 9 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 8 0 4 4 1
      Nuclear Reactions explains the development of nuclear reactions, focusing on the study of the quantum scattering phenomena in terms of pure states. This book discusses the early applications of quantum mechanics; simple quantitative ideas; theory of Breit and Wigner; and statistical properties of resonances. The elastic scattering experiments and optical model fits; particle propagation in the optical model; and nuclear matter are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the shell model; inelastic scattering; and (p, 2p) reaction. This publication is beneficial to undergraduate students who have finished the first course in quantum mechanics, as well as those interested in the theory of nuclear reactions.

    • Handbook of Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology

      • 1st Edition
      • December 23, 2016
      • Monica S Krishnan + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 3 5 2 3 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 3 5 6 1 0
      Handbook of Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology serves as a practical tool and rapid reference to assist radiation oncology practitioners in direct patient care with common palliative care issues. Containing the most recent advances in translational palliative care research, each chapter is organized in a succinct fashion to discuss major symptom burdens, suggested assessment, and various management options. Each symptom and disease section is written to be a rapid, practical guide for clinicians on the floor. The book starts with general approaches in palliative radiation oncology that are followed by a section that focuses on common symptoms in palliative care and their management. The next section of the book is devoted to site and disease-specific evaluation, intervention, and management. This handbook provides general guidelines and management recommendations for common clinical vignettes encountered by palliative radiation oncology practitioners and supported by palliative radiation oncology research. Concise references are cited to support treatment recommendation.

    • Flight Test Instrumentation

      • 1st Edition
      • November 4, 2016
      • M. A. Perry
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 1 1 0 7 4 5
      • eBook
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      Flight Test Instrumentation is a collection of papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Flight Test Instrumentation held in 1964 under the auspices of the Department of Flight of the College of Aeronautics in Cranfield, UK. The symposium provided a forum for discussing advances in flight test instrumentation and covered topics ranging from pre-detection recording in the megacycle range to some problems and uses of fuel flow measurements in supersonic aircraft. This volume is comprised of 14 chapters and begins by describing angle of attack and angle of sideslip measurements using fully de-iced non-movable differential pressure-sensing heads and low-range capacitive pressure transducers. The next chapter explores errors in stability derivative measurements that can occur due to shortcomings in instrumentation design, as well as the implications of such errors for the development of a modern supersonic aeroplane. The application of the vector plotting technique to flight flutter testing of the Hawker Siddeley Trident is then considered. Subsequent chapters focus on the use of high-accuracy instrumentation techniques for non-steady flight measurements; strain gauging for transient heating cases; and free-flight model techniques for aerodynamic research at supersonic and hypersonic speeds. This book will be a useful resource for students, practitioners, and officials of aeronautics.

    • Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 1991

      • 1st Edition
      • July 29, 2016
      • S.C. Schmidt + 3 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 2 9 1 4 5 1
      The papers collected together in this volume constitute a review of recent research on the response of condensed matter to dynamic high pressures and temperatures. Inlcuded are sections on equations of state, phase transitions, material properties, explosive behavior, measurement techniques, and optical and laser studies. Recent developments in this area such as studies of impact and penetration phenomenology, the development of materials, especially ceramics and molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations are also covered. These latest advances, in addition to the many other results and topics covered by the authors, serve to make this volume the most authoritative source for the shock wave physics community.

    • Principles of Dynamics

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2016
      • Rodney Hill
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 1 3 5 4 0 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 3 9 0 8 1

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Condensed matter physics

Instrumentation

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Nonlinear statistical and applied physics

Nuclear and high energy physics

Optics with atomic molecular and plasma physics

Physics general

Surfaces and interfaces