Icp imprint: 267 books
Chemistry in Theatre
Insufficiency, Phallacy or Both
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
This book examines the questions “What can science do for the theatre?” and “What can the theatre do for science?” which raise challenges for both theatre professionals and scientists. Unusually, this book deals with plays first and foremost as reading material — as texts to be read alone...
by Valery Nesvizhevsky, Alexei Voronin
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This unique book demonstrates the undivided unity and infinite diversity of quantum mechanics using a single phenomenon: quantum bounces of ultra-cold particles.
Various examples of such "quantum bounces" are: gravitational quantum states of ultra-cold neutrons (the first observed...
by J M Speight
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Real analysis provides the fundamental underpinnings for calculus, arguably the most useful and influential mathematical idea ever invented. It is a core subject in any mathematics degree, and also one which many students find challenging. A Sequential Introduction to Real Analysis gives a fresh take...
Goethe's “Exposure of Newton's Theory”
A Polemic on Newton's Theory of Light and Colour
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist. In the second polemic part of Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours), for example, Goethe attacked Isaac Newton's ground-breaking revelation that light is heterogeneous and not immutable,...
4D Visualization of Matter
Recent Collected Works of Ahmed H Zewail, Nobel Laureate
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Ever since the beginning of mankind's efforts to pursue scientific inquiry into the laws of nature, visualization of the very distant and the very small has been paramount. The examples are numerous. A century ago, the atom appeared mysterious, a “raisin or plum pie of no structure,” until it...
Physics with Trapped Charged Particles
Lectures from the Les Houches Winter School
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
This book is a collection of articles on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles by speakers at the Les Houches Winter School. The articles cover all types of physics with charged particles, and are aimed at introducing the basic issues at hand, as well as the latest developments in the field. It is...
by Rashid Ganeev
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of high-order harmonic generation in laser-produced plumes, covering the principles, past and present experimental status and important applications. It shows how this method of frequency conversion of laser radiation towards the extreme ultraviolet...
by Sambhu N Datta, Carl O Trindle, Francesc Illas
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Organic materials with extraordinary magnetic properties promise a wide range of light, flexible, and inexpensive alternatives to familiar metal-based magnets. Individual organic molecules with high magnetic moments will be the foundation for design and fabrication of these materials.
This...
Flexoelectricity in Liquid Crystals
Theory, Experiments and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The book intends to give a state-of-the-art overview of flexoelectricity, a linear physical coupling between mechanical (orientational) deformations and electric polarization, which is specific to systems with orientational order, such as liquid crystals.
Chapters written by experts in the...
Resonance
Applications in Physical Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This book explores a large number of resonance effects that occur both in everyday life and in scientific contexts. It is a topic that provides a cross-link between many branches of science and shows how a single scientific principle can manifest itself in many, apparently disparate, ways.
Resonance...
Industrial Catalysis
Chemistry and Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Industrial Catalysis: Chemistry and Mechanism is an essential textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in the underlying concepts of catalysis, industrial organic chemistry and the mechanism of catalysis. For undergraduates it provides an introduction to the basic...
by Catherine Louis, Olivier Pluchery
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The fascination with gold is a story which spans millennia, however scientists have recently found a new interest for gold when it is divided into miniscule grains, such as gold nanoparticles. This scientific enthusiasm started in various fields of science in the middle of the 1980s and the present...
Innovative Thermoelectric Materials
Polymer, Nanostructure and Composite Thermoelectrics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Power generation from environmentally friendly sources has led to surging interest in thermoelectrics. There has been a move toward alternative thermoelectric materials with enhanced performance through materials and structures that utilize common and safer elements and alternative mechanistic approaches...
by Neil Alford, Jean Fréchet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Included in this proceedings is a selection of peer-reviewed scholarly papers by Saudi postgraduate researchers who presented their work at a student conference held in London at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre from January 31 to February 1, 2015. The volume covers topics from fields in the...