Physics

This book provides a thorough account of the current status of achievements made in the area of soft X-Ray laser source development and of the incr...

Supersymmetry, strings and branes are believed to be the essential ingredients in a single unified consistent theory of physics. This book gives a ...

This book is written for students and scientists wanting to learn about the Standard Model of particle physics. Only an introductory course knowled...

Branching Brownian motion (BBM) is a classical object in probability theory with deep connections to partial differential equations. This book high...

Steering clear of quantum mechanics and product operators, Pocket Guide to Biomolecular NMR uses intuitive, concrete analogies to explain the theor...

QUANTUMCOMM 2009the International Conference on Quantum Communi- tion and Quantum Networking (from satellite to nanoscale)took place in Vico Equens...

Model checking is one of the most successful verification techniques and has been widely adopted in traditional computing and communication hardwar...

'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial Times From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future...

An overview of the optical effects in solids, addressing the physics of various materials and their response to electromagnetic radiation. The disc...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by...

The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is...

A comprehensive study of refrigeration from its beginnings in America up to 1950, which shows its relation to our national development, records the...

Synthesizing the theoretical and experimental advances in pion-nucleon interactions over approximately the last twelve years, the authors offer her...

This self-contained introduction to compact star physics explains important concepts from areas such as general relativity, thermodynamics, statist...

This fully revised, updated and reorganised third edition provides a thorough introduction to the characterisation techniques used in surface scien...

With over half of the world's population now living in urban areas, the ability to model and understand the structure and dynamics of cities is bec...

Computational aeroacoustics (CAA) is a relatively new research area. CAA algorithms have developed rapidly and the methods have been applied in man...

Magnetic fields are important in the Universe and their effects contain the key to many astrophysical phenomena that are otherwise impossible to un...

An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity considers select examples of complexity phenomena related to observed plasma processes in the space envi...

This book offers a systematic exposition of conformal methods and how they can be used to study the global properties of solutions to the equations...

This indispensable guide will equip the reader with a thorough understanding of the field of foaming chemistry. Assuming only basic theoretical bac...

Since the radio signature of our own Milky Way was detected in 1931, galaxies have been observed from ultra-high energy gamma rays to long waveleng...

Combining physics and philosophy, this is a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science which provides an up-to-date exam...

Combustion is a fascinating phenomenon coupling complex chemistry to transport mechanisms and nonlinear fluid dynamics. This book provides an up-to...