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by Ricardo M. F. Martins, Nuno C. C. Lourenço, Nuno C.G. Horta
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
This book presents an innovative methodology for the automatic generation of analog integrated circuits (ICs) layout, based on template descriptions and on evolutionary computational techniques. A design automation tool, LAYGEN II was implemented to validate the proposed approach giving special emphasis...
Nanoscience
The Science of the Small in Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Nanoscience stands out for its interdisciplinarity. Barriers between disciplines disappear and the fields tend to converge at the very smallest scale, where basic principles and tools are universal. Novel properties are inherent to nanosized systems due to quantum effects and a reduction in dimensionality:...
Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology
Physics and Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology aims to link clinical ophthalmology directly to its basic science roots. This first volume describes the physics and chemistry required for a sound understanding of modern ophthalmology. The book opens with an extensive discussion of the interaction of light with matter...
Biophysics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Biophysics is the science of physical principles underlying all processes of life, including the dynamics and kinetics of biological systems.
This fully revised 2nd English edition is an introductory text that spans all steps of biological organization, from the molecular, to the organism level,...
Laser Shock Processing of FCC Metals
Mechanical Properties and Micro-structural Strengthening Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Laser shock processing (LSP) is a new and promising surface treatment technique for improving the fatigue durability, corrosion, wear resistance and other mechanical properties of metals and alloys. During LSP, the generated shock wave can introduce a deep compressive residual stress into the material,...
Surface Tension in Microsystems
Engineering Below the Capillary Length
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This book describes how surface tension effects can be used by engineers to provide mechanical functions in miniaturized products (<1 mm). Even if precursors of this field such as Jurin or Laplace already date back to the 18th century, describing surface tension effects from a mechanical perspective...
Advances in Metal Forming
Expert System for Metal Forming
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
This comprehensive book offers a clear account of the theory and applications of advanced metal forming. It provides a detailed discussion of specific forming processes, such as deep drawing, rolling, bending extrusion and stamping. The author highlights recent developments of metal forming technologies...
by Peter Peverelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European...
The German Prosecution Service
Guardians of the Law?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Acclaimed as the "the most objective prosecutors in the world", the German prosecution service has long attracted the attention in the past of comparative law scholars. At first glance, the institutional position and statutory mandate of German prosecutors indicate that that reputation is...
Experimenting on a Small Planet
A Scholarly Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand...
Fundamentals of Quantum Physics
Textbook for Students of Science and Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book presents a comprehensive course of quantum mechanics for undergraduate and graduate students. After a brief outline of the innovative ideas that lead up to the quantum theory, the book reviews properties of the Schrödinger equation, the quantization phenomena and the physical meaning of...
Space, Time, and Spacetime
Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski's Unification of Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime, this volume contains papers, most presented at the Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, that address some of the deepest questions in physics.
by Gustavo E. Romero, Gabriela S. Vila
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book is based on the lecture notes of a one-semester course on black hole astrophysics given by the author and is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in astrophysics.
The material included goes beyond that found in classic textbooks and presents details...
Quantum Mechanics in the Geometry of Space-Time
Elementary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
This book continues the fundamental work of Arnold Sommerfeld and David Hestenes formulating theoretical physics in terms of Minkowski space-time geometry. We see how the standard matrix version of the Dirac equation can be reformulated in terms of a real space-time algebra, thus revealing a geometric...