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The Six-Cornered Snowflake
Häftad, 2014
406 kr
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Kepler's essay, On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, provides the first published evidence of the ideas of regular arrangements and close-packing which have proved fundamental to crystallography. In it, Kepler ponders on the problem of why snowflakes are hexagonal, two centuries before the first …
Principles and Applications of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials
Häftad, 2001
1881 kr
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The book develops the modern theory of ferroelectricity in terms of soft modes and lattice dynamics and also describes modern techniques of measurement, including X-ray, optic, and neutron scattering, infra-red absorption, and magnetic resonance. It includes a discussion of the related phenomena of …
Algebraic Projective Geometry
Av J. G. Semple, G. T. Kneebone
Häftad, 1998
1775 kr
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Reissued in the Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, and first published in 1952, this book has been recommended to generations of students. It provides a clear and systematic introduction to projective geometry, building on concepts from linear algebra." [Topics are] presented …
The Mathematical Theory of Plasticity
Av R. Hill
Häftad, 1998
1445 kr
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First published in 1950, this important book details the mathematical theory underlying the behaviour of plastic materials, especially metals.'the author has done his work so well that it is difficult to see how it could be bettered. The book should rank for many years as an authoritative source of …
The Theory of Probability
Häftad, 1998
1894 kr
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Another title in the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, Jeffrey's Theory of Probability, first published in 1939, was the first to develop a fundamental theory of scientific inference based on the ideas of Bayesian statistics. His ideas were way ahead of their time and …
The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes
Häftad, 1998
1848 kr
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Part of the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, this book was first published in 1983, and has swiftly become one of the great modern classics of relativity theory. It represents a personal testament to the work of the author, who spent several years writing and …
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Volume 1
Häftad, 1998
1023 kr
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Originally published in 1891, and now part of the Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, this celebrated treatise details Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism that underpins much of modern physics. The theory inspired both Lorentz's theories on the electron and Einstein's theory of …
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Volume 2
Häftad, 1998
1023 kr
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This celebrated treatise details Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism which underpins much modern physics. The theory elaborated here inspired both Lorentz's theories on the electron and Einstein's theory of relativity. This volume copntains Parts III and IV of the treatise dealing respectively …
The Hardness of Metals
Av D. Tabor
Häftad, 2000
1536 kr
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This book is an attempt to explain hardness measurements of metals in terms of some of their more basic physical properties. It does not deal with the atomic and crystalline mechanism of elastic or plastic deformation, but starting with the elastic and plastic characteristics it shows that the …
The Friction and Lubrication of Solids
Av F. P Bowden, D. Tabor
Häftad, 2001
1800 kr
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This classic work, originally published in 1950, was a landmark in the development of the subject of tribology. When it was first published, one reviewer wrote that it 'marks the beginning of a new epoch in the study of friction and lubrication .... The most interesting and comprehensive work on a …
Electrons and Phonons
The Theory of Transport Phenomena in Solids
Av J.M. Ziman
Häftad, 2001
1162 kr
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This study of the theory of electrical and thermal conduction in metals, semiconductors, and insulators is written at a level appropriate to graduate students and research workers and assumes some knowledge of wave mechanics in its reader. The basic ideas of crystal lattice dynamics, electron zone …
Quantum Theory of Solids
Häftad, 2001
1481 kr
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This book develops the subject from the basic principles of quantum mechanics. The emphasis is on a single statement of the ideas underlying the various approximations that have to be used and care is taken to separate sound arguments from conjecture. This book is written for the student of …
Molecular Beams
Häftad, 1986
1262 kr
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This book, first published in 1956, represents a notable contribution to the literature of atomic and molecular structure. As the title implies, the contents are limited to an account of beams of electrically neutral particles. The use of molecular-beam resonance techniques encouraged an …
The Structure of Physical Chemistry
Häftad, 2005
1041 kr
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Physical Chemistry is a difficult and diversified subject. Based on a good long spell of university teaching, this book lays emphasis on the structure and continuity of the whole subject and tries to show the relation of its various parts to one another. Certain themes or, one might almost say, …
The Structure and Properties of Water
Häftad, 2005
1503 kr
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The authors have correlated many experimental observations and theoretical discussions from the scientific literature on water. Topics covered include the water molecule and forces between water molecules; the thermodynamic properties of steam; the structures of the ices; the thermodynamic, …
The Physics of Rubber Elasticity
Häftad, 2005
1433 kr
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This book provides a critical review of the equilibrium elastic properties of rubber, together with the kinetic-theory background. It is suitable for the non-specialist and the emphasis is on the physical reality embodied in the mathematical formulations. Polymer science had developed greatly since …
Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials
Häftad, 2015
832 kr
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This reissued classic text is the acclaimed second edition of Professor Ian Macdonald's groundbreaking monograph on symmetric functions and Hall polynomials.The first edition was published in 1979, before being significantly expanded into the present edition in 1995. This text is widely regarded as …
Cosmical Magnetic Fields
Their Origin and their Activity
Av E. N. Parker
Häftad, 2019
1019 kr
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This well known and widely used landmark text explores the universal spontaneous generation of magnetic fields in astronomical bodies and the agitation of the bodies by those fields. The general properties of magnetic fields, their appearance throughout the astronomical universe, and the havoc they …
Interfaces in Crystalline Materials
Häftad, 2006
1840 kr
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The study of interfaces within and between materials is a central field which is relevant to almost all aspects of materials science. For example, interfaces play a role in many of the mechanical and electrical properties of materials, phase transformations, and microstructure of materials.This …
The Problems of Physics
Häftad, 2006
876 kr
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Is the universe infinite, or does it have an edge beyond which there is, quite literally, nothing? Do we live in the only possible universe? Why does it have one time and three space dimensions - or does it? What is it made of? What does it mean when we hear that a new particle has been discovered? …
Atomic and Laser Spectroscopy
Av Alan Corney
Häftad, 2006
1793 kr
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This book discusses many advances in optical physic, and is aimed at advanced undergraduates taking courses in atomic physics, or graduate students in the fields of lasers, astrophysics, and physical chemistry. The book is intended mainly for experimentalists, and the interaction of electromagnetic …
The Mathematical Theory of Symmetry in Solids
Representation Theory for Point Groups and Space Groups
Av Christopher Bradley, Arthur Cracknell
Häftad, 2009
1276 kr
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This book gives the complete theory of the irreducible representations of the crystallographic point groups and space groups. This is important in the quantum-mechanical study of a particle or quasi-particle in a molecule or crystalline solid because the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a system …
Ice Physics
Häftad, 2010
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1313 kr
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This classic monograph provided the first comprehensive account of the physics and chemistry of ice, and remains authoritative and relevant today. Informed by research from physicists, chemists, glaciologists, meteorologists, geophysicists, and molecular biologists, the book places emphasis on the …
The Physics of Clouds
Av B.J. Mason
Häftad, 2010
1258 kr
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Cloud physics is concerned with those processes which are responsible for the formation of clouds and the release of precipitation. This classic book gives a comprehensive and detailed account of experimental and theoretical research on the microphysical processes of nucleation, condensation, …
Polymers in Solution
Their Modelling and Structure
Av Jacques des Cloizeaux, Gérard Jannink
Häftad, 2010
1341 kr
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This book is devoted to the static properties of flexible polymers in solution. It presents the progress made by both theory and experiment in the years up to its original publication in 1990, and remains one of the most advanced books available on this subject. Despite the variety in the chemical …
Electronic Processes in Non-Crystalline Materials
Av Nevill Francis Mott, Edward A Davis
Häftad, 2012
1135 kr
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Since the first edition of this highly successful book the field saw many great developments both in experimental and theoretical studies of electrical properties of non-crystalline solids. It became necessary to rewrite nearly the whole book, while the aims of the second edition remained the same: …
Electricity and Magnetism, Volume 1
Häftad, 2013
940 kr
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This book is a reissue of the third and last edition of a classic text providing the reader with a comprehensive account at first degree or introductory graduate level of the principles and experimental aspects of electricity and magnetism, together with an elementary account of the underlying …
Electricity and Magnetism, Volume 2
Av BI Bleaney, B Bleaney
Häftad, 2013
1347 kr
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This book is a reissue of the third and last edition of a classic text providing the reader with a comprehensive account at first degree or introductory graduate level of the principles and experimental aspects of electricity and magnetism, together with an elementary account of the underlying …
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Transition Ions
Av A. Abragam, B. Bleaney
Häftad, 2012
1416 kr
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This book is a reissue of a classic Oxford text, and provides a comprehensive treatment of electron paramagnetic resonance of ions of the transition groups. The emphasis is on basic principles, with numerous references to publications containing further experimental results and more detailed …
Quasicrystals
A Primer
Häftad, 2012
1148 kr
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In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures. Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals. A previously formulated theory in terms of higher …
