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Many chemical and biological processes take place in fluid environments in constant motion. This book introduces the theoretical approaches for describing mixing and transport in fluid flows. It reviews the basic concepts of dynamical phenomena arising from the nonlinear interactions in chemical and biological systems.

Makes accessible to calculus students in high school, college and university a range of counter-examples to conjectures that many students erroneously make.

Designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English, this book is intended as a do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. It guides them through the process of writing science research and also helps with writing a Master's or Doctoral thesis in English.

Discusses neurology in music. This book discusses the neurologist in the concert hall as well as the musician at the bedside by showing how neurology enriches musical perception, the main theme being the cerebral localization of music production and perception. It describes various techniques of imaging the musical brain.

Presents quantum field theory of topological defects that are created during spontaneous symmetry breakdown phase transitions.

Contains solutions to 370 problems, many with illustrations, and Tables of Data on fuel supply.

In this text, leading physicists provide their views on their subjects and on the wider field of mathematical physics. The topics covered range widely over the whole field, from quantum field theory to turbulence, from the classical three-body problem to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Pile foundations are the most common form of deep foundations that used both onshore and offshore to transfer large superstructure loads into competent soil strata. This book provides many case histories of failure of pile foundations due to earthquake loading and soil liquefaction.

Covers the field of multiscale modeling in solid mechanics, with particular emphasis on computational approaches. This book presents an introduction to the theories on which different multiscale approaches are based, with regards to linear homogenization as well as various nonlinear approaches.

A study of group theory and Einstein's theory of gravitation. It contains a discussion on general relativity from the viewpoint of group theory and gauge fields. It also puts together in one volume many scattered, original works on the use of group theory in general relativity theory.

Compares the merits of coherent electron waves with those of synchrotron radiation. This book exposes the paradigm concepts and the developed techniques that can be executed to gain knowledge in the entire domain of biological and physical science, and in the four dimensions of space and time.

Presents an overview of methods that are used to evaluate the performance of computer systems and networks, manufacturing systems, and interconnected services systems. This title includes chapters on numerical methods for queueing models and on G-networks.

Offers the reader practical methods to compute the option prices in the incomplete asset markets. This title shows that the geometric Levy process (GLP) is a typical example of the incomplete market, and that the MEMM (minimal entropy martingale measure) is an extremely powerful pricing measure. It also introduces the [GLP \& MEMM] pricing models.

The vast majority of automatic controllers used to compensate industrial processes are PI or PID type. This book covers the tuning rules for these controllers proposed from 1935 to 2008. It discusses controller architecture and process modeling issues, as well as the performance and robustness of loops compensated with PI or PID controllers.

Presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. This book provides a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics. It emphasises on interacting systems. It considers the weakly interacting systems, and then examines the system where interactions lead to phase transitions.

Provides physical intuition and key entries to the body of literature. This book includes historical perspective of the theories.

This widely acclaimed text, now in its fifth edition and translated into many languages, continues to present a clear, simple and concise introduction to chemical thermodynamics.

Aims to represent a comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the theoretical principles, experimental status, and applications of short-pulse laser-matter interactions. This book looks at the physical phenomena, which arise as a result of this form of "light-matter" interaction.

Merkel cell carcinoma is an uncommon but not rare aggressive cutaneous malignancy. This book summarizes the knowledge about Merkel cell carcinoma and provides a perspective on future opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic advances. It also offers practical how to advice on diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

An introduction to basic ideas in differential topology, covering smooth manifolds and maps, the structure of the tangent bundle and its associates, the calculation of real cohomology groups using differential forms, and applications. Each chapter contains exercises and solutions are provided.

Covers the very wide spectrum of all aspects of railway engineering for all engineering disciplines, in a 'broad brush' way giving a good overall knowledge of what is involved in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining a railway.

Builds on the fluid and kinetic theory of equilibria and waves presented in a companion textbook, "Basic Space Plasma Physics". The book provides a representative selection of the many possible macro- and microinstabilities in a space plasma.

This is a graduate-level text - complete with 138 assigned problems - which covers a broad range of topics related to the fundamental properties of collective processes and nonlinear dynamics of one-component and multispecies charged particle systems in which there is not overall charge neutrality.

Structures cannot be created without engineering theory, and design rules have existed from the earliest times for building Greek temples, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals ΓÇö and later, for steel skyscrapers and the frames for aircraft. This book is, however, not concerned with the description of historical feats, but with the way the structural engineer sets about his business. Galileo, in the seventeenth century, was the first to introduce recognizably modern science into the calculation of structures; he determined the breaking strength of beams. In the eighteenth century engineers moved away from this ΓÇÿultimate loadΓÇÖ approach, and early in the nineteenth century a formal philosophy of design had been established ΓÇö a structure should remain elastic, with a safety factor on stress built into the analysis. This philosophy held sway for over a century, until the first tests on real structures showed that the stresses confidently calculated by designers could not actually be measured in practice. Structural engineering has taken a completely different path since the middle of the twentieth century; plastic analysis reverts to Galileo''s objective of the calculation of ultimate strength, and powerful new theorems now underpin the activities of the structural engineer.This book deals with a technical subject, but the presentation is completely non-mathematical. It makes available to the engineer, the architect and the general reader the principles of structural design.

This volume introduces the important methods used in the solution of partial differential equations. Aimed at second-year and final-year students taking physics and engineering courses, it should also be of value to mathematicians studying mathematical methods as part of their course.

An introduction to the physics of the photovoltaic cell. It covers the fundamental principles of semiconductor physics and simple models used to describe solar cell operation. It presents theoretical approaches to efficient solar cell design and examines the main practical types of solar cell.

Sir Joseph Banks was a man of science, of affairs and of letters. He circumnavigated the globe with Cook, became President of the Royal Society, and was at the centre of Georgian life for over five decades. This is a collection of his letters, selected from the remaining 6000 letters he wrote.

Brodmann's text is often considered on of the major classics in the neurological world and forms the basis for so-called "localization" of function in the cerebral cortex, but few have seen the original 1909 monograph. This book provides a translation of the original text.