Applied Sciences category: 551 books

For the last twenty years, Alan Lightman has been writing essays that display his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. Dance for Two gathers the best of Lightman's work. Here are pieces that touch on both the ethereal and the corporeal; the dependence of a ballerina on...

To many people, the construction of a sundial implies laborious mathematical calculations and a knowledge of astronomy. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This fascinating handbook, used in conjunction with ordinary tools and materials found around the home, makes it easy to design and construct...

This authoritative compilation of formulas and tables simplifies the design of inductors for electrical engineers. It features a single simple formula for virtually every type of inductor, together with tables from which essential numerical factors may be interpolated. Although compiled in the 1940s,...

The International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2013) was held on 9-12 October, 2013. This three-day congress focused on the latest developments of sustainable energy technologies, materials for sustainable energy applications and environmental & economic...

The general directorate of the civil defense aims through this project to replace the tanks, pumps, ejectors, and extensions that are installed on the old water trucks at the civil defense in order to increase its quality and longing its lifetime through manufacturing them from non-rust materials according to the following technical conditions and specifications The Author Sabry Amin

The Atomic Space Age has been and continues to be an engine for future wealth creation. Humanity stands on the verge of becoming an interplanetary species. We know we are made of star-stuff precisely because many of the isotopes in our bodies originated in the death throes of dying suns. With the...

Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space... Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast. In...

To show from the Big Bang to the end of this universe observers and their souls are the reason for it all. How? By using published scientific facts, figures, and extrapolations from the bio-geo-chemo-physics fields of discoveries. Most of these discoveries are by the worlds top scientists and are...

菜餚裡有氯化鈉、飲料裡有乙醇、甜點裡有β-D-fructofuranosyl-(2→1)-α-D-glucopyranoside，看起來都好可怕，但它們其實就是鹽、酒精跟蔗糖！ 很多人聽到「化工」就感到害怕，事實上，化工的相關應用已經深入你我的生活。不論是廚房裡的洗碗精、便利商店的飲料、洗髮精、沐浴乳、彩妝用品、衣服……都和化工息息相關。 科學博客（The...

Or, did you know that those people, who were born on October 7th of leap years ор October 8th of common years are not only authoritarian individuals, who are strong, active, possess formidable grace, ambitious, eager to measure strength, subdue, control everything and everyone, but also for the...

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger,...

Lissajous Figures are produced by combining two oscillations at right angles to each other. The figures, drawn by mechanical devices called Harmonographs, have scientific uses, but are also enjoyed for their own beauty. The author has been working with harmonographs since his undergraduate days, has...

The Advanced Physics Series: Electrical Safety Procedures Do you love physics? Do you love to learn about electrical safety and how its useful on our society to keep people safe? If you do; this is the e book is for you. This e book contains information on electrical safety devices ( RCD...

This is a high quality rendering, and includes many images, not available from other sources,that have been painstakingly recovered and enhanced for this edition. The material originated as a Non-Resident Training Courses designed to provide technical training to members of the US Navy and...