Average customer rating:
|
Our Geologic Environment
Harvey Blatt
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General & Reference
| Chemistry
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Geology
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Environmental
| Civil
| Engineering
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General & Reference
| Chemistry
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Geology
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Outdoors & Nature
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Professional
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Science
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 013371022X |
Book Description
This book focuses on the interaction between humans and their physical environment. Presents the environmental problems we face followed by coverage of Earth's raw materials (minerals and rocks). Also contains coverage of soil, water, and air since these are the issues most central to human concerns. For Geology students and enthusiasts and environmentalists.
Average customer rating:
|
Our Geologic Environment
Jane Boger , and
Phillip Boger
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Geology
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Geology
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0787227188 |
Book Description
This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of the microphysical processes which lead to cloud and precipitation formation. Emphasis is placed on presenting a quantitative description of the various mechanisms (e.g. nucleation, diffusional growth and evaporation, collisional growth and breakup) which lead to the formation of cloud and precipitation particles, individually and in populations.
The second edition of this highly acclaimed book has been extensively updated to incorporate new research reported in a large number of articles and dozens of books and conference proceedings published since the first edition. Some highlights include: a new chapter on cloud chemistry; improved statistical mechanics models for homogeneous and heterogeneous ice nucleation; better data on aerosol size distribution and on fundamental properties of water; new data and models for asymmetric flow past particles of various shapes and for drop oscillation and breakup; extended treatment of drop coalescence and particle collision cross-sections, including some new effects of turbulence; more complete simulations of stochastic growth; expanded treatment of growth modes of graupel, rime and hailstones; new field data and modelling concerning effects of electric fields and charges on cloud microphysics.
Audience:The book is directed primarily at undergraduate and graduate level students of cloud physics, as well as at specialists in the field of aerosol physics, cloud dynamics, climate modelling, air chemistry, air pollution, and weather modification.
Customer Reviews:
The most complete reference on cloud physics.......2006-08-27
The book of professor Pruppacher impress by the broad treatment of the subject. In spite of the fact that the author says in the foreword that it is not a complete approach to cloud physics, it reaches close to this goal. This is a fundamental book for all who wish to learn in depth cloud mycrophysics.
This is the bible of cloud physics.......1999-06-01
Following the first edition in 1978, this book is an updated and expanded (especially in cloud chemistry) version of this well-known textbook in cloud physics. It covers nearly every topics of cloud physics and chemistry (and aerosol physics as well)in great detail with extensive references (more than 60 pages!). Indispensable for anyone in cloud physics, atmospheric aerosol, and possibly climate scientists.
Book Description
"I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images. Pictures and pulses—I want to know where they came from, how pictures and counts got to be the bottom-line data of physics." (from the preface)
Image and Logic is the most detailed engagement to date with the impact of modern technology on what it means to "do" physics and to be a physicist. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone researcher who put together experimental apparatus on a benchtop. Now experiments frequently are larger than a city block, and experimental physicists live very different lives: programming computers, working with industry, coordinating vast teams of scientists and engineers, and playing politics.
Peter L. Galison probes the material culture of experimental microphysics to reveal how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus have distanced physicists from the very science that drew them into experimenting, and have fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions much as apparatus have fragmented atoms to get at the fundamental building blocks of matter. At the same time, the necessity for teamwork in operating multimillion-dollar machines has created dynamic "trading zones," where instrument makers, theorists, and experimentalists meet, share knowledge, and coordinate the extraordinarily diverse pieces of the culture of modern microphysics: work, machines, evidence, and argument.
Customer Reviews:
The Soul Of A New Machine Part II: Ascension Into The Clouds.......2006-06-16
It's 2006, have you even picked up a science book lately? Why not? Nova and Discover enough? Well maybe Peter Galison can change all that. Think of him as the ultimate insider in a world that moves too fast for journalism to keep up with its leaks, spills and brilliant mistakes. Galison doesn't condescend to readers nor does he ream them with macho scibits; he's an academic who has a knack for talking out loud in front of any size audience, consisting of anybody willing to follow his investigations into the subcultures of science, with theorists on one phenomenological side and engineers on the other. Image & Logic is already considered a masterpiece by Galison's peers but he's yet to get the popular push that Carl Sagen and Stephen J. Gould got, and that's...ok. Just as Tracy Kidder managed to wrest computer technology from the clutches of lab-elitists and their cocktail napkin philistine pimps (CNPP) with his Soul of A New Machine, Galison will eventually vaporize the CNPP and the rest of us can breath easier. So go on, wean yourself off of the philistine's big hairy factoids and get some real, science under your belt.
Informative and Illuminating.......2002-01-03
Peter Galison presents an in-depth look at Experimental Physics in the 20th century, both to reveal its history and present an alternative view of scientific change in recent history. Starting with Wilson's first cloud chamber and progressing through WWII R&D up to and including the Superconducting SuperCollider Galison reveals major changes and redefinitions of what it means to be a practitioner of Experimental Physics. His approach applies a sociological perspective where theorists, experimentalists and instrumentalists share a dialog referred to by Galison as a "trading zone" where the previously assumed communication structures within and between Scientific disciplines are viewed as non-rigid, flexible and mutable. Along the way Galison provides fascinating examples of events and discoveries that illuminate the little known world of research and experiment in recent history. Among these examples are the fire at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator which brought about much greater regulatory involvement of the AEC. Also, the necessary use of MonteCarlo methods in the development of the H-Bomb where as Galison states "A hundred million degrees kelvin put the laboratory out of the picture..." ultimately leading to present day computer technology. For anyone within or outside of physics proper this book is truly an eye-opener to that almost invisible world of 20th century Experimental Physics.
Book Description
This text not only provides a thorough introduction to statistical physics and thermodynamics but also exhibits the universality of the chain of ideas that leads from the laws of microphysics to the macroscopic behaviour of matter. A wide range of applications teaches students how to make use of the concepts, and many exercises will help to deepen their understanding. Drawing on both quantum mechanics and classical physics, the book follows modern research in statistical physics.
Volume I discusses in detail the probabilistic description of quantum or classical systems, the Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, the conservation laws, and the interpretation of entropy as missing information. Thermodynamics and electromagnetism in matter are dealt with, as well as applications to gases, both dilute and condensed, and to phase transitions.
This softcover edition accomodates the many requests to make this widely used and often cited classical text available again.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting treatment from an information point of view.......2005-08-23
This is one of the earliest comprehensive treatment of Statistical Mechanics (SM) from the perspective of information. The presentation of the foundation of SM here is much clearer and unified compared to the standard understanding, due to the adoption of the maximum entropy principle (and the subjecive interpretation of probability).The issue of entropy and irreversibility also received interesting discussion here.
An earlier book that treats SM in the similar form is Amnon Katz' book "Principles of statistical mechanics ; the information theory approach".
Average customer rating:
- A revolution in physics
- Nottale may have discovered the "Rosseta Stone" of GUTs
|
Fractal Space-Time and Microphysics: Towards a Theory of Scale Relativity
Laurent Nottale
Manufacturer: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Fractals
| Pure Mathematics
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 9810208782 |
Customer Reviews:
A revolution in physics.......1999-07-17
As Einstein indulged a long time in wondering how it would be like to be a photon, LN spent his time trying to slip into a fractal. For once it is in it, a particule which follows chaotic movements in a classical frame, goes straight ahead, and then one may understance the apparent disorders of microphysics. The most amazing is that, beyond the theoretical development, LN's scale relativity not only unifies both poles of the 20th century theoretical physics, namely General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, but also gives us new philosophical insights about how to look at our world. Faithful to Einstein's ideas, he reintroduces the necessity of "the maximum elegance" in our description of the world, elegance which had been swept away by the quantum formalism. Roughly said, quantum mechanics is no longer an axiomatic theory but is now a consequence of a satisfying general principle for mind, namely the relativity principle. So what's the new point? We know since einstein that every momentum is relative (uniform momentum with special relativity, accelerated momentum with general relativity). Roughly said, I never absolutly move, I only move compared to another body. LN extends this beautiful idea of general relativity to the notion of scale. I am not tall, I am just taller than something. But this simple looking idea needs new mathematical tools to enter the hall of wonder that is called theoretical physics. There come the fractals. How these extraodinary and strange figures upset our sight of the whole universe, from microphysics to cosmology ? All this is brilliantly explained, in a simple and accessible way, in this book, where intuition and philosophical insights are as significant as theoretical ideas.
Gérard Schumacher who began to apply his theories to planets motions (French Riviera Observatory) deems him a genius: "il y a eu les Grecs, Einstein, et puis Nottale."
Nottale may have discovered the "Rosseta Stone" of GUTs.......1997-01-31
Nottale's theory of "scale Relativity" holds the promise of unraveling one the greatest mysteries of the universe: The Grand Unified Theory. His genius stroke is to postulate that the geometry of space/time itself is "fractal". Using this approach, the seeming incongruous nature of the quantum realm may be reconciled with the observed nature of the world at "larger" scales.
The theory expands and complements Einstein's Relativity, identifying the De Broglie "length" as the absolute scale to Einstein's absolute velocity: the speed of light.
Nottale initially introduces the theory clearly and, after an informative backround on theoretical physics and fractal geometry, expands on it in an exhaustive and systematic manner. The conclusion includes prospects for generalizing the theory to cosmology.
"Fractal Space-Time and Microphysics : Towards a Theory of Scale Relativity" is a compelling and potentially seminal work. It is densely packed with mathematical analysis but can be navigated by the lay enthusiast who is determined. Those who are shouldn't be dissappointed.
A must read!
Book Description
In the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields) -- the results of which some historians later viewed as the "discovery" of the electron. This book is both a biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world that it opened up.
The book is organized in four parts. The first part, Corpuscles and Electrons, considers the varying accounts of Thomson's role in the experimental production of the electron. The second part, What Was the Newborn Electron Good For?, examines how scientists used the new entity in physical and chemical investigations. The third part, Electrons Applied and Appropriated, explores the accommodation, or lack thereof, of the electron in nuclear physics, chemistry, and electrical science. It follows the electron's gradual progress from cathode ray to ubiquitous subatomic particle and eponymous entity in one of the world's most successful industries -- electronics. The fourth part, Philosophical Electrons, considers the role of the electron in issues of instrumentalism, epistemology, and realism. The electron, it turns out, can tell us a great deal about how science works.
Average customer rating:
|
From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century
Jed Z. Buchwald
Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Telecommunications
| Engineering
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Waves & Wave Mechanics
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Waves & Wave Mechanics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Electromagnetism
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General & Reference
| Technology
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0226078833 |
Average customer rating:
|
Aerosol Microphysics II: Chemical Physics of Microparticles (Topics in Current Physics)
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Solid-State Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Chemical Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physical & Theoretical
| Chemistry
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0387114009 |
Average customer rating:
|
Aerosol Microphysics, I: Particle Interaction (Topics in Current Physics)
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Solid-State Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physical & Theoretical
| Chemistry
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0387098666 |
Average customer rating:
|
Atomic Order: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Microphysics
Enrico Cantore
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| History & Philosophy
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
History of Science
| History & Philosophy
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Nuclear Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Nuclear Physics
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0262530287 |
Book Description
The intention of Atomic Order is to encourage and contribute to the dialogue between philosophers and scientists by discussing a concrete example of scientific discovery according to a method acceptable and understandable to both sides. This discussion takes simultaneously into account the scientific and philosophical methodologies and mentalities. By regarding "pure" science or "pure" philosophy as limiting cases, it becomes evident that basic questions are best posed and answered by emphasiz ing the deeply embedded complementary relationship between the two. The example chosen is atomic physics, and a systematic method is developed to illuminate the philosophical structure of this science--and science generally--from within.
The book consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to the problem of atomic order as discovered and verified by physics, from the speculations of Dalton to the consequences of modern quantum mechanics. These chapters will afford a telescopic, historical review to the scientific reader and a reliable, understandable account of the physical discoveries and theories to the nonscientist. The second part analyzes the presuppositions, guiding principles, and implications that made possible the development of atomic physics and that impart a humanistic meaning to it. In separate chapters are discussed the epistemological structure of atomic physics, the new conception of matter implicit in the quantum theory, and the ontological implications of atomic order. It is seen that, in this area, science and philosophy are inextricably interpenetrated. A philosophic problematic is immanent in creative atomic science, as is evidenced by the numerous reflections and speculations of scientists that are quoted in the book. Conversely, an interest in scientific research is indispensable for a modern philosopher, and the philosopher may well be surprised and encouraged on recognizing the role already being played by philosophy in the supposedly pragmatic world of science.
Dr. Cantore brings an ecumenical cast Lof mind to the healing of the bjcultural split between the humanists and the scientists. The recipient of a doctorate in physics and another in philosophy, he has drawn from both fields in a book dedicated to "making the educated public more aware of the need and method for a new synthesis between the two cultures."
Average customer rating:
|
A Small Box of Chaos: A Near Future Mystery
Alan Robbins
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Comic
| General
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
Adventure
| Science Fiction
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science Fiction
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0595354300 |
Book Description
There are cameras at every turn, smart buildings that know all about you, virtual realities that overcome real ones. And there is instant access to all of it through a computer the size of a credit card. The year is 2040 and constant monitoring is the price you pay for being connected. But can you get away with murder in such a world? That is the problem facing data maven and control freak Aldo Weeks when a single lapse in judgment plunges him into unknown terrain. First there is a midnight tryst with an exotic redhead. Then a murderous duet with a madman. As he tries to outwit the vast net of information, he encounters a strange puzzle box at the center of the whole affair, a box of chaos that might just hold the key to how complexity rules the universe.
Books:
- Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic world
- Pericyclic Reactions - A Textbook: Reactions, Applications and Theory
- Polymer Chemistry: The Basic Concepts
- Polymer Melt Rheology: A Guide for Industrial Practice
- Polymer Sensors and Actuators (Macromolecular Systems - Materials Approach)
- Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice: Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments
- Principles and Applications of Inorganic, Organic and Biological Chemistry
- Rates of Chemical Weathering of Rocks & Minerals
- Retinoids: The Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Vitamin A and Retinoid Action (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology)
- Rheology Essentials of Cosmetic and Food Emulsions (Springer Laboratory)
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- iText in Action: Creating and Manipulating PDF
- Fire Ice: A Novel from the NUMA Files
- Umpoled Synthons: A Survey of Sources and Uses in Synthesis
- A Desert in Bohemia
- Bobbi Brown Living Beauty
- Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
- Carmen Miranda Paper Dolls in Full Color
- Act It Out: 25 Expressive Ways to Heal from Childhood Abuse
- Mumu! a Marine Remembers the South Pacific: A Marine Remembers the South Pacific
