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by Anwar Kamal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
This textbook teaches particle physics very didactically. It supports learning and teaching with numerous worked examples, questions and problems with answers. Numerous tables and diagrams lead to a better understanding of the explanations. The content of the book covers all important topics of particle...
by Kaoru Yamanouchi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
At a level accessible to advanced undergraduates, this textbook explains the fundamental role of quantum mechanics in determining the structure, dynamics, and other properties of molecules. Readers will come to understand the quantum-mechanical basis for harmonic oscillators, angular momenta and scattering...
by Anwar Kamal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
This textbook explains the experimental basics, effects and theory of nuclear physics. It supports learning and teaching with numerous worked examples, questions and problems with answers. Numerous tables and diagrams help to better understand the explanations. A better feeling to the subject of the...
by A. P. Schaffarczyk
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Wind-Turbine Aerodynamics is a self-contained textbook which shows how to come from the basics of fluid mechanics to modern wind turbine blade design. It presents a fundamentals of fluid dynamics and inflow conditions, and gives a extensive introduction into theories describing the aerodynamics of...
Photovoltaics Guidebook for Decision-Makers
Technological Status and Potential Role in Energy Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This guidebook for managers and decision-makers analyzes all important aspects for evaluating photovoltaics as a potential option in the power-supply industry and industrial development. The expertise of 40 invited experts enables readers to form their own opinion of PV energy conversion.
by Su-Il Pyun, Heon-Cheol Shin, Jong-Won Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The understanding of hydrogen/lithium insertion phenomena is of great importance for the development of the next generation of functional electrochemical devices such as rechargeable batteries, electrochromic devices, and fuel cells. This volume introduces a variety of viable electrochemical methods...
Einstein in Matrix Form
Exact Derivation of the Theory of Special and General Relativity without Tensors
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This book is an introduction to the theories of Special and General Relativity. The target audience are physicists, engineers and applied scientists who are looking for an understandable introduction to the topic - without too much new mathematics. The fundamental equations of Einstein's theory of...
by Norbert Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this concise primer it is shown that, with simple diagrams, the phenomena of time dilatation, length contraction and Lorentz transformations can be deduced from the fact that in a vacuum one cannot distinguish physically straight and uniform motion from rest, and that the speed of light does not...
Mechanics
An Intensive Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Mechanics is one of the oldest and at the same time newest disciplines, in the sense that there are methods and principles developed first in mechanics but now widely used in almost all branches of physics: electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, special and general...
by Hung Nguyen-Schäfer, Jan-Philip Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Tensors and methods of differential geometry are very useful mathematical tools in many fields of modern physics and computational engineering including relativity physics, electrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), continuum mechanics, aero and vibroacoustics and cybernetics.
This...
The Wondrous Universe
Creation without Creator?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
The world as it is viewed from modern physics and cosmology has many strange and unexpected features. Often these are in stark contrast with our everyday experience or our preconceptions, such as the concept of space and time as finite and changeable. Nevertheless it is this strange world which is...
The Chemical Bond
A Fundamental Quantum-Mechanical Picture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Providing the quantum-mechanical foundations of chemical bonding, this unique textbook emphasizes key concepts such as superposition, degeneracy of states and the role of the electron spin. An initial, concise and compact presentation of the rudiments of quantum mechanics enables readers to progress...
Geothermal Energy
From Theoretical Models to Exploration and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The internal heat of the planet Earth represents an inexhaustible reservoir of thermal energy. This form of energy, known as geothermal energy has been utilized throughout human history in the form of hot water from hot springs. Modern utilization of geothermal energy includes direct use of the heat...
Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model
A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute...