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Dictionary of High-Energy Physics - book by Sube, R.
DESCRIPTION: This dictionary provides a comprehensive collection of terms used in high-energy physics. The terms were compiled from specialized literature, including reports from research institutes and proceedings of conferences. TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Sube, R. PAGES: 164 pages PUBLI... view more info and the price of this book.
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Dictionary of Physics - book by Rydnik, V.J.;Sviridenkov, E.A.;Voropaev, N.D.
DESCRIPTION: This dictionary is one of a series of dictionaries brought out by Russky Yazyk Publishers which deals with the main branches of science and technology, giving the main terms pertaining to the branch concerned.The Russian vocabulary contained in this dictionary is based on the Explanator... view more info and the price of this book.
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The Philosophy of Niels Bohr - book by Folse, H.J.
DESCRIPTION: Of all the developments in twentieth century physics, none has given rise to more heated debates than the changes in our understanding of science precipitated by the ``quantum revolution''. In this revolution, Niels Bohr's dramatically non-classical theory of the atom proved to be the s... view more info and the price of this book.
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Quantum Mechanics - book by Lipkin, H.J.
DESCRIPTION: Intended for a first year graduate course in quantum mechanics, this collection of topics can also be considered as a set of self-contained ``monographs for pedestrians'' on the Mössbauer effect, many-body quantum mechanics, kaon physics, scattering theory, Feynman diagrams, symmet... view more info and the price of this book.
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History of CERN, I - book by Belloni, L.;Hermann, A.;Krige, J.;Mersits, U.;Pestre, D.
DESCRIPTION: Describing the history of CERN from its inception in the late 40's up to the mid-60's. The authors have divided these 17-18 years into roughly two successive periods. Volume I deals with the birth and official establishment of the organization and thus covers the years 1949-1954, whil... view more info and the price of this book.
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History of CERN, II - book by Weiss, L.;Hermann, A.;Krige, J.;Mersits, U.;Pestre, D.
DESCRIPTION: The first volume of the History of CERN (published in 1987) dealt with the launching of the European Organization for Nuclear Research covering the period 1949 to 1954. Volume II continues the history through to the mid-1960's, when it was decided to equip the laboratory with a second ... view more info and the price of this book.
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Quantics - book by Levy-Leblond, J.-M.;Balibar, F.
DESCRIPTION: Amongst the numerous texts on the subject, the authors have succeeded in creating a novel approach to the understanding of quantum physics based on four novel features:
- deliberate use of qualitative methods and heuristic arguments rather than formal calculations;
- permanent refere... view more info and the price of this book.
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Early Work (1905 - 1911) - book by Nielsen, J.R.
DESCRIPTION: The influence of Niels Bohr's work, of his approach to research, both practical and theoretical, is widely felt today. His contributions to our knowledge of the atomic constituents of matter and to our view of science, remain of fundamental importance.
The publication of his collected ... view more info and the price of this book.
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Work on Atomic Physics (1912 - 1917) - book by Hoyer, U.
DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editors' foreword. Abbreviated titles of periodicals. Part I: Absorption of charged particles. Part II: Constitution of atoms and molecules. Part III: Consolidation of the quantum theory of the atom. Part IV: Selected correspondence 1912-1917. Inventory of manuscri... view more info and the price of this book.
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The Periodic System (1920 - 1923) - book by Nielsen, J.R.
DESCRIPTION: Whilst volume 3 dealt primarily with the development of the quantum theory, ``The Periodic System'' contains in 2 parts the papers treating the application of the theory to the problem of atomic structure and the explanation of the periodic system of the chemical elements. TABLE OF CO... view more info and the price of this book.
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Foundations of Quantum Physics I (1926 - 1932) - book by Kalckar, J.
DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword. Abbreviated titles of periodicals. General introduction to volumes 6 and 7. Part I: The emergence of the complementarity argument. Part II: Further elucidation of the complementarity argument. Part III: General aspects of physical description. Part IV: Se... view more info and the price of this book.
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The Penetration of Charged Particles Through Matter (1912 - 1954) - book by Thorsen, J.
DESCRIPTION: Bohr's first acquaintance with the subject of penetration of charged particles through matter was as early as in 1912 when he treated the absorption of &agr; and &bgr; rays on the basis of Rutherford's atomic model. From then on he kept a lifelong interest in the subject, often using i... view more info and the price of this book.
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Nuclear Physics (1929-1952) - book by Peierls, R.
DESCRIPTION: Hardbound. ``Nuclear Physics'' deals with Bohr's work on nuclear physics which began in the pre-1932 days with his thinking deeply, but inconclusively about the seeming contradictions then presented by the evidence about the nucleus. In 1936, Bohr recognised and described the insights p... view more info and the price of this book.
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The Political Arena (1934-1961), 11 - book by Aaserud, Finn
DESCRIPTION: Part I is devoted to Niels Bohr's mission to promote an "open world" between nations, that is, full sharing of information in the scientific and technical, as well as in the cultural spheres the scientific and technical, as well as in the cultural spheres. He started his mission immedi... view more info and the price of this book.
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50 Years Progress in Crystal Growth - book by Feigelson, Robert
DESCRIPTION: There is no question that the field of solid state electronics, which essentially began with work at Bell laboratories just after World War II, has had a profound impact on today's Society. What is not nearly so widely known is that advances in the art and science of crystal growth unde... view more info and the price of this book.
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Quantum Dots - book by Chakraborty, T.
DESCRIPTION: This book deals with the electronic and optical properties of two low-dimensional systems: quantum dots and quantum antidots and is divided into two parts. Part one is a self-contained monograph which describes in detail the theoretical and experimental background for exploration of ele... view more info and the price of this book.
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The Classical Stefan Problem - book by Gupta, S.C.
DESCRIPTION: This volume emphasises studies related to
classical Stefan problems. The term "Stefan problem" is
generally used for heat transfer problems with
phase-changes such
as from the liquid to the solid. Stefan problems have some
characteristics that are typical of them, but certain problems
... view more info and the price of this book.
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Concise Encyclopedia of Materials Characterization - book by Cahn, Robert
DESCRIPTION: To use materials effectively, their composition, physical and mechanical characteristics, and microstructure must be accurately determined. The second edition of this concise encyclopledia covers the wide range of characterization techniques necessary to achieve this.
With over 130 ar... view more info and the price of this book.
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Assessment of Safety and Risk with a Microscopic Model of Detonation - book by Leiber, C.-O.
DESCRIPTION: This unique book is a store of less well-known explosion and
detonation phenomena, including also data and experiences related to
safety risks. It highlights the shortcomings of the current
engineering codes based on a classical plane wave model of the
phenomenon, and why these tools mu... view more info and the price of this book.
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Nano-Physics & Bio-Electronics: A New Odyssey - book by Chakraborty, T.;Peeters, F.;Sivan, U.
DESCRIPTION: This book is a collection of some of the invited talks presented at the international meeting held at the Max Planck Institut fuer Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany during August 6-30, 2001, on the rapidly developing field of nanoscale science in science and bio-electronics Sem... view more info and the price of this book.
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Modern Aspects of Rare Earths and their Complexes - book by Sastri, V.S.;Bunzli, J.-C.;Perumareddi, J.R.;Ramachandra Rao, V.;Rayudu, G.V.S.
DESCRIPTION: The rare earth elements form a fascinating group, resembling each other very closely in both physical and chemical properties. The close similarity of the behaviour of the elements led to difficulties in isolation of the elements in a state of high purity. Now that the separation and ... view more info and the price of this book.
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Chemical Thermodynamics of Nickel, 6 - book by OECD, .;Mompean, Federico;Illemassene, Myriam;Perrone, Jane
DESCRIPTION: In order to quantitatively predict the chemical reactions that hazardous materials may undergo in the environment, it is necessary to know the relative stabilities of the compounds and complexes that may be found under certain conditions. This type of calculations may be done using con... view more info and the price of this book.
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Dynamics of Stochastic Systems - book by Klyatskin, Valery
DESCRIPTION: Fluctuating parameters appear in a variety of physical systems and phenomena. They typically come either as random forces/sources, or advecting velocities, or media (material) parameters, like refraction index, conductivity, diffusivity, etc. The well known example of Brownian particle ... view more info and the price of this book.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY AND NANO-INTERFACE CONTROLLED ELECTRONIC DEVICES - book by Iwamoto, M.;Kaneto, K.;Masaki, S.
DESCRIPTION: The International Workshop on Nanotechnology and NICE Devices (IWNND) was
held on March 19 and 20, 2002 at Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan. This
international workshop was organized as one of the important events of the Nagoya
Nanotechnology International Forum 2002 (NNIF2002), fr... view more info and the price of this book.
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Rapid Thermal Processing for Future Semiconductor Devices - book by Fukuda, H.
DESCRIPTION: This volume is a collection of papers which were presented at the 2001 International Conference on Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP 2001) held at Ise Shima, Mie, on November 14-16, 2001. This symposium is second conference followed the previous successful first International RTP conference... view more info and the price of this book.
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Crystal Growth - From Fundamentals to Technology - book by Muller, Georg;Metois, Jean-Jacques;Rudolph, Peter
DESCRIPTION: The book contains 5 chapters with 19 contributions form internationally well acknowledged experts in various fields of crystal growth. The topics are ranging from fundamentals (thermodynamic of epitaxy growth, kinetics, morphology, modeling) to new crystal materials (carbon nanocrystals... view more info and the price of this book.
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Tribological Research and Design for Engineering Systems - book by Dowson, D.;Lubrecht, A.A.;Dalmaz, G.;Priest, M.
DESCRIPTION: These papers represent the proceedings from the 29th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, 'Tribological Research and Design for Engineering Systems' which was held in September 2002. Over 130 delegates from 18 countries attended the symposium, and the extensive discussions generated over... view more info and the price of this book.
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Non-Linear Theory of Elasticity and Optimal Design - book by Ratner, L.W.
DESCRIPTION: In order to select an optimal structure among possible similar structures, one needs to compare the elastic behavior of the structures. A new criterion that describes elastic behavior is the rate of change of deformation. Using this criterion, the safe dimensions of a structure that are... view more info and the price of this book.
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Chemical Thermodynamics of Compounds and Complexes of U, Np, Pu, Am, Tc, Se, Ni and Zr With Selected Organic Ligands, 9 - book by OECD, .;Mompean, Federico;Illemassene, Myriam;Perrone, Jane
DESCRIPTION: This volume is part of the series on "Chemical Thermodynamics", published under the aegis of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. It contains a critical review of the literature on thermodynamic data for compounds of complexes of oxalate, citrate, EDTA and iso-saccharinate with uranium, nept... view more info and the price of this book.
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Chemical Thermodynamics of Selenium, 7 - book by OECD, .
DESCRIPTION: In order to quantitatively predict the chemical reactions that hazardous materials may undergo in the environment, it is necessary to know the relative stabilities of the compounds and complexes that may be found under certain conditions. This type of calculations may be done using con... view more info and the price of this book.
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Uncertain Input Data Problems and the Worst Scenario Method, 46 - book by Hlavacek, Ivan;Chleboun, Jan;Babuska, Ivo;Achenbach, Jan
DESCRIPTION: This book deals with the impact of uncertainty in input data on the outputs of mathematical models. Uncertain inputs as scalars, tensors, functions, or domain boundaries are considered. In practical terms, material parameters or constitutive laws, for instance, are uncertain, and quanti... view more info and the price of this book.
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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths, 34 - book by Gschneidner Jr., Karl;Bunzli, Jean-Claude;Pecharsky, Vitalij
DESCRIPTION: This volume of the Handbook adds five new chapters to the science of rare earths. Two of the chapters deal with intermetallic compounds. An overview of ternary systems containing rare earths, transition metals and indium ? Chapter 218 ? opens the volume. It is followed by Chapter 219 so... view more info and the price of this book.
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Unifying Concepts in Granular Media and Glasses - book by Coniglio, Antonio;Fierro, Annalisa;Herrmann, Hans;Nicodemi, Mario
DESCRIPTION: Deep connections are emerging in the physics of non-thermal systems,such as granular media, and other "complex systems" such as glass formers, spin glasses, colloids or gels. This book discusses the unifying physical theories, developed in recent years, for the description of these syst... view more info and the price of this book.
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Unstable Singularities and Randomness - book by Zbilut, Joseph
DESCRIPTION: Traditionally, randomness and determinism have been viewed as being diametrically opposed, based on the idea that causality and determinism is complicated by ?noise.? Although recent research has suggested that noise can have a productive role, it still views noise as a separate entity.... view more info and the price of this book.
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Polaritons in Periodic and Quasiperiodic Structures - book by Albuquerque, Eudenilson;Cottam, Michael
DESCRIPTION: In recent years there have been exciting developments in techniques for producing multilayered structures of different materials, often with thicknesses as small as only a few atomic layers. These artificial structures, known as superlattices, can either be grown with the layers stacke... view more info and the price of this book.
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Nano Plating - Microstructure Formation Theory of Plated Films and a Database of Plated Films - book by Watanabe, T
DESCRIPTION: Modern plating technology is highly advanced, and has developed to cover a wide range of applications. In addition to the traditional use for surface finishing, plating technology can now offer novel processes to fabricate high-performance films or fine microstructural bodies in the mic... view more info and the price of this book.
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Statistics of Linear Polymers in Disordered Media - book by Chakrabarti, Bikas
DESCRIPTION: With the mapping of the partition function graphs of the n-vector magnetic model in the n to 0 limit as the self-avoiding walks, the conformational statistics of linear polymers was clearly understood in early seventies. Various models of disordered solids, percolation model in particul... view more info and the price of this book.
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Free Electron Lasers 2003 - book by Minehara, Eisuke;Sawamura, Masaru;Hajima, Ryoichi
DESCRIPTION: This book contains the Proceedings of the 25th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 10th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 8-12, 2003 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki in Japan. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface
Committees
Exhibitors
Sponsor
FEL 2003 prize... view more info and the price of this book.
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Quantum Entanglement and Information Processing, Session LXXIX - book by Esteve, Daniel;Raimond, Jean-Michel;Dalibard, Jean
DESCRIPTION: It has been recognised recently that the strange features of the quantum world could be used for new information transmission or processing functions such as quantum cryptography or, more ambitiously, quantum computing. These fascinating perspectives renewed the interest in fundamen... view more info and the price of this book.
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Stochastic Equations through the Eye of the Physicist - book by Klyatskin, Valery
DESCRIPTION: Fluctuating parameters appear in a variety of physical systems and phenomena. They typically come either as random forces/sources, or advecting velocities, or media (material) parameters, like refraction index, conductivity, diffusivity, etc. The well known example of Brownian particle ... view more info and the price of this book.
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Global Competition inTransportation Markets, 13 - book by Kanafani, Adib;Kuroda, Katsuhiko
DESCRIPTION: This book represents the proceedings of a conference held at Kobe
University, that brought together some of the world's leading researchers in the field of
transportation planning and policy.
It contains a compendium of papers representing state-of-the-art research
on topics of competi... view more info and the price of this book.
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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths, 35 - book by Gschneidner Jr., Karl;Bunzli, Jean-Claude;Pecharsky, Vitalij
DESCRIPTION: The rare earths play a unique role in science. These seventeen related elements afford a panoply of subtle variations deriving from the systematic development of their electronic configurations, allowing a test of theory with excellent resolution. In contrast they find widespread use in... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Low Temperature Physics, Volume XV - book by Halperin, Bill
DESCRIPTION: A number of interrelated areas of low temperature physics are brought together in this volume. The four topics are presented as separate chapters. First is the study of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for defect formation following quench cooling of superfluid 3He and its relation to quantu... view more info and the price of this book.
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Nanophysics: Coherence and Transport, Session LXXXI - book by Bouchiat, Hel&egra;Gefen, Yuval;Gueron, Sophie ;Montambaux, Gilles ;Dalibard, Jean
DESCRIPTION: The developments of nanofabrication in the past years have enabled the design of electronic systems that exhibit spectacular signatures of quantum coherence. Nanofabricated quantum wires and dots containing a small number of electrons are ideal experimental playgrounds for probing elec... view more info and the price of this book.
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Chemical Thermodynamics of Zirconium, 8 - book by OECD, .;Mompean, Federico;Perrone, Jane;Illemassene, Myriam
DESCRIPTION: This volume is part of the series on "Chemical Thermodynamics", published under the aegis of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. It contains a critical review of the literature on thermodynamic data for inorganic compounds of zirconium. A review team, composed of five internationally recogn... view more info and the price of this book.
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Multiple Aspects of DNA and RNA: from Biophysics to Bioinformatics, Session LXXXII - book by Chatenay, Didier;Cocco, Simona;Monasson, Remi;Thieffry, Denis;Dalibard, Jean
DESCRIPTION: This book is dedicated to the multiple aspects, that is, biological, physical and computational of DNA and RNA molecules. These molecules, central to vital processes, have been experimentally studied by molecular biologists for five decades since the discovery of the structure of DNA by... view more info and the price of this book.
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