Classical Mechanics

This latest volume includes contributions on the latest advances in energy research. Chapter One introduces photovoltaic-green (PV-green) roofing s...

In this compilation, the authors first present a study in which computational design is performed, using empirical data, to fit physical models to ...

Energy security is one of the greatest challenges of the modern world. The situation is further complicated by the fact that energy security can be...

Are you ready for a society driven by hydrogen energy? The fact is, no matter if you are ready or not, a hydrogen energy-based society has arrived....

Sustainable development is triggering a re-assessment of innovation and technological change in all fields, and energy is no exception. A key chall...

This book is about the empirical analysis of household electricity saving behavior. In particular, we focus on effective methods to promote energy ...

Galileo established how objects of various mass, when released simultaneously, hit the earth at the exact same instant. Sir Isaac Newton identified...

In face of the increasingly obvious need to ensure the sustainability of the environment, alternative and renewable energy sources are no longer ju...

Nowadays, biomass presents itself as a very viable alternative for the production of energy, both electrical and thermal, quickly recovering its ro...

The federal government first supported a program for energy storage and electric power system technology during the 1970s, before the establishment...

The universe is in a period of accelerated expansion; and the observational evidence such as supernova of Ia type, Cosmic Microwave Background radi...

A brief introduction to gravity through Einsteins general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least ...

The Long Island Solar Farm project came together as a joint effort of five very different interest groups: a federal agency, a research institution...

Stand-off pads and animal housing practices (i.e., animal confinement) are increasingly being used in animal grazing systems; these methods are int...

Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton ...

The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theoryIn the first two book...

During the last twenty years, ionic liquids have become one of the most interesting and rapidly developing areas of modern physical chemistry, tech...

Biodiesel, which consists of long-chain fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) obtained from renewable lipids such as those in vegetable oils or animal fa...

During energy utilization and conversion, thermal energy is either an intermediate product or a byproduct; that is, thermal transport plays a criti...

Hydropower is the power derived from the energy in moving water. Hydroelectricity is created by converting the kinetic energy in moving water to me...

This first volume of Climate, Energy, and Environment: Issues, Analyses, and Developments presents current topical research in the study of the c...

Constrained budgets and increasing energy efficiency goals have led federal agencies to explore innovative ways to fund energy improvements, includ...

This book examines relatively new, innovative financing methods for residential photovoltaics (PV) and compares them to traditional self-financing ...

Electricity today is widely viewed as a commodity. As a commodity, electricity is bought and sold as both power and energy, with various attributes...

Indian energy resources hold significant potential for development, but remain largely undeveloped. Interior''''s Bureau of Indian Affairs'''' (BIA...

This book presents results from the first U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored, bottom-up data-collection and analysis of non-hardware balance...

Solar energy technologies continue to be deployed at unprecedented levels, aided significantly by the advent of large-scale projects that sell thei...

The U.S. energy service company (ESCO) industry is an example of a private sector business model where energy savings are delivered to customers pr...

Einstein's theory of general relativity is a cornerstone of modern physics. It also touches upon a wealth of topics that students find fascinating ...

The book is a collection of excellent articles representing recent research in Quantum Gravity. Aspects of path-integral quantisation, black hole p...

Get moving! By opening this book, you''''ll be using force to make the cover move. You use forces every day. But how? Learn more about this science...

We live in a world of waves. The Earth shakes to its foundations, the seas and oceans tremble incessantly, sounds reverberate through land, sea, an...

As an acoustic engineer, Trevor Cox has spent his career eradicating unwanted noises echoes in concert halls, clamour in classrooms. Until the day...