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Engineering the Earth's solar input appears increasingly attractive and practical as a means to lower Earth's temperature, and thus, to lower sea level. The cost of engineering the climate appears small, comparable, even, to the already-incurred costs of sea level rise represented by civil engineering projects in London, Venice and New York City.

B Factories are particle colliders at which specific subatomic particles - B mesons - are produced abundantly. This book studies the properties of their decays in detail in order to shed light on a mystery of eminently larger scale: why do we live in a universe composed of anti-matter?

Celebrates Michael Stonebraker's accomplishments that led to his 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award "for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems." The book describes, for the broad computing community, the unique nature, significance, and impact of his achievements in advancing modern database systems.

The study of shock wave formation and dynamics begins with a study of waves themselves. Simple harmonic motion is used to analyze the physical mechanisms of wave generation and propagation, and the principle of superposition is used to mathematically generate constructive and destructive interference.

Uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. Although not a how-to manual, the topics centre around hands-on applications, illustrated by photographic processes easily accessible to students.

Reviews interesting metamaterial systems, which capture many features of important cosmological models and offer insights into the physics of many other non-trivial spacetime geometries, such as microscopic black holes, closed time-like curves and the Alcubierre warp drive.

Provides an overview of the Standard Model of particle physics including an overview of the discovery and properties of the Higgs boson. The book also summarizes the important investigations into the physics of neutrinos and provides an overview of the interpretation of these studies.

Uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. The topics centre around hands-on applications, most-often illustrated by photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to students.

Introduces the diversity of structures that are now known to exist in solids through a consideration of quasicrystals and the various structures of elemental carbon and through an analysis of their relationship to conventional crystal structures.

Uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. The topics centre around hands-on applications, most-often illustrated by photographic processes that are inexpensive and easily accessible to students.

The International Linear Collider is a mega-scale, technically complex project, requiring large financial resources. Such a big project has to be discussed publicly, and the planned goals clearly formulated. This book discusses why this project is important and which new discoveries can be expected.

Up until the mid-1920s, many physicists did not believe in the reality of molecules. Indeed, it was not until after the physics community had accepted Ernest Rutherford's 1913 solar-system-like model of the atom that physicists started to take seriously the necessity of explaining the chemical changes that chemists had been observing.

We often wonder whether or not athletes will reach certain peaks and what determines their limits of athletic performance. Science is uniquely equipped to answer these kinds of questions. This book has the primary goal of communicating understandable scientific explanations of athletic performance.

The growing number of scientific and technological applications of plasma physics in the field of Aerospace Engineering requires that graduate students and professionals understand their principles. This introductory book is intended as a reading guide, addressed to students and non-specialists to tackle later with more advanced texts.

Written from the perspective of an experimental chemist, this book puts together some fundamentals from chemistry, solid state physics and quantum chemistry, to help with understanding and predicting the electronic and optical properties of organic semiconductors, both polymers and small molecules.

The first course in software engineering is the most critical. Education must start from an understanding of the heart of software development. This book is an in-depth introduction to software engineering that uses a systematic, universal kernel to teach the essential elements of all software engineering methods.

Holographic dualities are at the forefront of contemporary physics research, peering into the fundamental nature of our universe and providing best attempt answers to humankind's bold questions about basic physical phenomena. This book brings aspects of holography research into the class room.

Provides a concise introduction to both the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. The format is chosen to provide the basis for a single semester course which can take the students all the way from the foundations of special relativity to the core results of general relativity.

Provides a concise treatment of atomic physics and a basis to prepare for work in other disciplines that are underpinned by atomic physics such as chemistry, biology and several aspects of engineering science. The focus is mainly on atomic structure since this is primarily responsible for the physical properties of atoms.

The objective of this book is to collect together the basic science and technology that underlies the Electrostatic Accelerator field so it can serve as a handbook, reference guide and textbook for accelerator engineers as well as students and researchers who work with Electrostatic Accelerators.

Further Applications of Lie Theory.

Introduces methods of THz generation and nonlinear THz spectroscopy in a tutorial way, discusses the relevant theoretical concepts, and presents prototypical, experimental, and theoretical results in condensed matter physics. The potential of nonlinear THz spectroscopy is illustrated by recent research, including an overview of relevant literature.

Describes the ideal magnetohydrodynamic theory for magnetically conned fusion plasmas. Advanced topics are presented in attempting to fill the gap between the up-to-date research developments and plasma physics textbooks.

The concept of drug targeting as a magic bullet has led to research in chemical modification to design and optimize the binding to targeted receptors. This book covers advances based on different drug delivery systems: polymeric and hyper branched nanomaterials, carbon-based nanomaterials, nature-inspired nanomaterials, and pathogen-based carriers.

Examines time-resolved optically stimulated luminescence and is suitable for researchers with an interest in the study of point-defects using luminescence methods. The book first sets the method within the context of luminescence field at large and then provides an overview of the instrumentation used.

Scientists now have a basic blueprint or roadmap of how a single damaged cell can develop into a pre-malignant lesion, a primary tumour, and finally, a lethal tumour that may spread throughout the body and resist both medical therapy and host immune responses. This book provides an overview of our current understanding of this cancer blueprint.

Provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces: user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial expressions, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces that often include biosignals.

Provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces: user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial expressions, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces that often include biosignals.

Demonstrates Microsoft EXCEL-based Fourier transform of selected physics examples. Spectral density of the auto-regression process is also described in relation to Fourier transform. Readers can also acquire and analyze their own data following the step-by-step procedure explained in the book.

Domain theory, a subject that arose as a response to natural concerns in the semantics of computation, studies ordered sets which possess an unusual amount of mathematical structure. This book explores its connection with quantum information science and the concept that relates them: disorder.