G. Ramesh Babu – författare

Relatively, a new discipline, Paleontology is the study of ancient Life forms that have inhabited our earth, and of the fossils that remain behind. Paleontologists, those scientists who study paleontology, are working to understand the types of plants and animals that have lived here, from the begirting of life on earth until the present. They study ancient ferns and fish, dinosaurs and bear-dogs, climates and continents. Thy search for fossils in rocks from all over the earth, discovering clues that may help them recreate what life was like in the ancient past. Fossils are evidence of past life that can still be found today. Most often, fossils are remains that have mineralised, i.e., turned to stone. They can be the bones or teeth of saber-tooth tiger, ancient trilobite shells, imprint of a fern frond, the footprint of a dinosaur, or petrified wood. By studying these fossils paleontologists learn about long-extinct organisms that inhabited the earth in ancient times, and about how they adapted to the environment they lived in and the world around them. This work is a milestone in the discipline, which, being beneficial for scholars and students alike, serves a great purpose.

Encyclopaedia of Solid State Physics has been compiled and edited to incorporate the concepts borrowed from the numerous areas of physics. The concepts have been carefully chosen and described with well defined illustrations and analytically mathematic expressions. The concepts have been described in a lucid style with necessary invaluable background information. Throughout this encyclopaedia, necessary cross-reference system has been maintained to make the reader to understand each concept in a broader scientific contact. The information contained in this book is gleaned from internationally recognized resources. The presentation is marked by a style displaying maturity of writing and bristling with the lucidity and simplicity of the language used by the editor. This Encyclopaedia is written with the objective to enable students to learn all aspects of Physics. This Encyclopaedia will prove to be of great value to the students and teachers of physics. This will also be useful, to some extents, to the scientists and engineers. Content. Physics of Solids; Physics of Liquids and Gases; Reality of Atoms; Model of Atoms; Radioactivity; Atomic Structure; Electrostatic Force; Magnetic Force; Wave Generation and Propagation; Lasers; Mass and Energy; Relativity; The Speed of Light; The Michelson-Morley Experiment; Particles and Waves.