Flow Injection Analysis: Instrumentation and Applications

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The concept of flow injection analysis (FIA) was introduced in the mid-seventies. It was preceded by the success of segmented flow analysis, mainly in clinical and environmental analysis. This advance, as well as the development of continuous monitors for process control and environmental monitors, ensured the success of the FIA methodology. As an exceptionally effective means of mechanization for various procedures of wet chemical analysis, the FIA methodology, in use with a whole arsenal of detection methods of modern analytical chemistry, proved to be of great interest to many.

The fast and intensive development of the FIA methodology was due to several factors essential for routine analytical determinations, such as very limited sample consumption, the short analysis time based on a transient signal measurement in a flow-through detector and an on-line carrying out difficult operations of separation, preconcentration or physicochemical conversion of analytes into detectable species.

Twenty-year studies by numerous research groups all over the world have provided significant progress in the theoretical description of dispersion phenomena in FIA and various operations of physicochemical treatment of the analyte. This volume is devoted to the presentation of the current status of development of the instrumentation for FIA and the many fields of its practical applications, based on an extensive bibliography of original research publications.

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In contrast to traditional textbooks for students and professionals in the physical sciences, this book presents its material in the form of problems. The second edition contains new chapters on dimensional analysis, variational calculus, and the asymptotic evaluation of integrals. The book can be used by undergraduates and lower-level graduate students. It can serve as a stand-alone text, or as a source of problems and examples to complement other textbooks. First Edition Hb (2001): 0-521-78241-4 First Edition Pb (2001): 0-521-78751-3

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Great physical insight.......2003-01-30

This book by Roel Sneider provides a solid foundation of various physical (geophysical) problems in a unified mathematical framework and complements many other excellent books on mathematical physics. It takes a mathematical equation and explains the physical insight in terms of known observational physics and identifies questions at various steps (in form of excercise) which is very important. The objective of these questions are to introduce complexity in a stepwise manner which is often hard to do. The solution treatment of the problem are primarily in analytical form using vector calculas in most part, Green's function and transform calculas. I particularly like the chapters on conservation laws, scale analysis and Green's function. I am using this as a text to teach a course on Properties and Processes of the Earth for first year geophysics graduate students at Boise State University.

APPLIED Physics: Practical yet theoretically advanced.......2003-01-10

The book was excellent and extremely practical while avoiding mathematical obfuscation common to such books. Yet it did not sacrifice more advance theoretical concepts, a truly remarkable achievement. A wonderful book for self-learning, easily in the same league as "Div, Grad, Curl and All That" and similar excellent books, but more advanced. Also great for "cleaning up" and "pulling together" that sketchy undergrad education in mathematics and its use in physics and engineering. I also appreciated the very strong and coherent treatment of wave propagation in general. While pulling from the literature in seismology, it also generalizes to other fields such as electromagnetics. Its use of examples from seismology and earth science are very fascinating, and inherently practical. Highly recommended. Having written my own textbook, I appreciate even more Prof. Snieder's accomplishment.

Michael W. Burke, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

THE BOOK OF ONLY PROBLEMS........2002-12-15

i just don't understand the name of this book.
guided tour means i guide someone to do some thing or to know it
but this book is just the opposite it does not guide u to do anything except of problems without answers..good luck.
the introduction preceding every problem is very short and always misty and definitly not enough to solve most of the problems there , which makes the book very unsuitable for self
learning like in my case..because if you stuck ...-> no help.
2 b ohnest here i purchased 2 books with the name mathematical
methodes and both are just useless from educational point of view..

but this book could have been marvelous if it were written like
normal books because it is full of very nice math. but the approach of the book is really bad.
because there is no much of explanations,no examples ,no techniks how to solve problems ...just u and the problems alone
vois la.

Learn Math and Physics by doing.......2002-12-11

I'm a 1st year graduate student at UC - Riverside studying Physics. I struggled throughout my undergraduate curriculum trying to master the vector calculus, complex math, and the miscellaneia of techniques that physical scientists need.

Reading the book and outlining just doesn't cut it... No matter how well you study the lecture notes and books, you must apply the language you are learning, i.e. mathematics.

This book covers the fundamental techniques one must have to study the physical sciences by explaining theory and having you prove the theory as you read in the book. So in order to learn the Cauchy-Riemann condition, you must take the derivatives from the real direction and then the y direction. The book coaches you through the logic and you do the grunt work.

Literally, you cannot go to the next page without solving a few problems, to come to the next idea which you must prove. Therefore, the book reinforces the material as you learn. What, I guess, we should all be doing when we read a textbook, rederiving the results as we read without using anything but the results that we had proven before.

Anyways, there is no solutions provided, but the questions flow so well with the book that they can be answered within a few minutes or an hour at worst...

So, in conclusion, this is an excellent book to review or self-teach yourself the fundamentals. Also a good price!

Great Compliment for Beginners and Self-Learners in Physics!.......2001-07-16

I would say that this book would compliment any of the fine mathematical physics books out there (Arfken, Boas, Mathews, etc.) It goes into the mathematical concepts learned in a mathematical physics, and ties it in with the actual physics. Many of the books will go through the formulations and mechanics, but Snieder's book dives into the justification for use in physics.

The book is laid out with a discussion, problems related to the discussion, and a follow up about the problem. The problems are simple, but do drive home the point. Most of the problems are usually solved in other books as examples. Snieder leaves the solutions out, but does discuss what the results mean mathematically and physically. The problems are simple enough that they can be found in other references, or done by one's self.

The book starts off with the power series, moves into coordinate systems, discusses the gradient, divergence of a vector field, curl of a vector field, Gauss's Theorem, Stoke's Theorem, The Laplacian, Conservation laws, scale analysis, linear algebra, Dirac delta function (very nice), Fourier transform, analytical functions and complex integration, greens functions (really nice!), normal modes, potential theory, tensors and perturbation theory (very nice). I would have liked some more on variational methods, but we can't have it all!

I would recommend it for students starting out in physics, and those whom are self-learners. It's also a great refresher for practicing scientist/engineers and grad students whom may have forgotten some tidbits.

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Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats; "Old-Fashioned Farmers," a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," one of Gogol’s most famous comic stories; and "The Overcoat," widely considered a masterpiece of form.

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The Overcoat of Russia's Past Is Today's BMW.......2006-09-24

I agree with those fans of this story who proclaim it to be the greatest short story ever. First, "The Overcoat," at 35 pages or so, has more thematic density than most novels. Second, it's funny. Third, it takes unpredictable twists and turns that suggest a madman or a genius at work. The premise is that a poor nebbish office worker saves all his money to buy a stylish overcoat, which affords him increased social status and personal self-esteem and as such the overcoat is like someone buying a BMW to impress everyone. Of course, pursuing a self-image through materialism is a chimera and will result in a Faustian Bargain. Indeed, the Devil appears in this story and indeed there is disenchantment in a story that is prescient in its ability to capture the advertising age and the promises of rabid consumerism as a false form of self-transcendence. Then there's the story's mysterious ending, which no critic can agree upon. Is the ending a ghost story, a metaphor, something else entirely? I would couple this "chimera" story with F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece"Winter Dreams," which is a microcosm of his novel The Great Gatsby, also about a man who, like the antihero in "The Overcoat," relies on image more than substance.

Overlooked classics.......2003-08-04

While Dostoevsky said, "We have all come from under 'The Overcoat'," western literature, especially because of the Cold War sentiment has put Gogol and his fantastic tales hidden under an overcoat. It is a shame that Gogol, especially "The Overcoat" and "The Nose," has been hidden or underpresented (nice word, eh?) for so long, especially since he seems to be Poe with a deep social commentary. Or maybe Poe is Gogol with a lyric bent for the macabre.

The Overcoat is a beautifully told story that will not allow you to look at people the same way, especially those who might be ostracized. While Akaky is a figure from 19th century Russia, he is very much a character that can be found in the 21st century. Moreover, when Gogol tells about the druken tailor with his witchy wife and the smell of onions, the reader at once pictures the dreadful wench and the overpowering smell of fried onions. And when the commissioner berates Akaky, it is hard not to almost faint in fear, or be outraged. Gogol is a master of stirring the human emotions and mixing them with vivid descriptions making for stories that a reader cannot forget.

The Nose is a very funny story, much of which gets lost in translation and in time. But the idea of a vain official losing his nose only to have it turn up as a mid-level bureaucrat is still relevant in this world of middle management. What a tremendous story tale of human vanity and what a surreal tale that seemed to spawn the likes of Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog," and "Master and Margarita."

Makes most Russian literature seem absurdly solemn........2001-12-19

The four stories in this collection contrast a precise realism - whether it is the evocation of place and atmosphere, or a description of civil service procedure - with narratives of absurdity, fantasy and pure comedy. If the classic 19th century novel, as epitomised by the likes of Tolstoy, mirrored a world-view that society, people or history could be known and adequately represented in fiction, than Gogol reveals the impossibility of applying that model to Russia - his is an unstable, constantly metamorphosing, fluctuating and seemingly random universe. Whereas the apparatus of order, such as bureaucracy or the justice system only weave chaos, or, at best, a parody of order; Gogol's primary device for destabilising the familiar world is narration. If the 19th century novel was related by a third-person, voice-of-God narrator, who knew everything about the generalities of empires and the most intimate thoughts of chambermaids, than Gogol's narrators dance constantly on the brink of madness, inopportunely professing ignorance, amnesia and prejudice, their prose styles febrile, staccato and grotesque.

The 'straightest' story in this collection is 'Old-Fashioned Farmers', a tragicomic story of old age, marriage and superstition, which, in its nostalgic and detailed evocation of a vanished period in Russian provinical life, looks ahead to Nabokov's ravishing memoir 'Speak Memory', albeit laced with a comic and satiric irony the later book lacks. The long 'How The Two Ivans Quarrelled' pinpoints the pettiness of the lower gentry's notions of pride and honour, as two lifelong friends become bitter enemies when one calls the other a 'goose'. This hilarious tale of small-town pretensions and inept local government includes the priceless scene of a fat brown sow breaking into the courthouse and stealing the petition of its owner's antagonist.

The famous 'Overcoat' is often considered one of the greatest stories ever written, and the way Gogol manages to avoid sentimentality in the story of an insignificant middle-aged clerk whose routine and despised life is briefly illumined by the purchase of a specially made new overcoat he can ill afford, and which is soon stolen, is admirable. The lunge into nightmare and the savage satire of the Russian civil service remain shocking. The standout story for me, though, is 'The Nose', which plays like Kafka rewritten by Mark Twain, in which a barber finds a nose in his breakfast, and its owner wakes up with a smooth face. With the most glorious deadpan comedy, Gogol describes the loss and the procedures to find it as if it were a wallet: at another point, the Nose is found disguised as a councillor attempting to flee the city by horse.

The translations ('The Nose' by Gleb Struve, an early translator of Nabokov, and his wife Mary; the others by Isabel F. Hapgood) are readable, retrieving Gogol's brisk comic pace and some of his incongruities of language. There is a use of cliches in Hapgood's 1886 transations, however, that can't always be credited to Gogol's deflating method, and which make certain passages feel flat.

As good as Dostoyevsky.......2001-08-28

If you like Dostoyevsky you should read The Overcoat. Its the best russian novel I have ever read. Well ... or Crime and Punishment. Its short, but still it contain so much.

touching, funny stories.......2001-03-20

If you haven't read anything by Nikolai Gogol, the keyword should be "funny." Unlike most of the Russian Literature in translation (at least that which I have read: Turgenev, Tolstoi, Dostoevski mainly), Gogol's prose is intentionally humorous. "The Nose" is a story about a man's nose which is chopped off while he's being shaved by his barber. It then takes off on a hike around town, dressed in clothing, after having grown to the size of a man! "The Overcoat" is probably the best known short story in Russian Literature, at least to American readers. Dostoevsky said that they all (later Russian writers) came from underneath Gogol's overcoat. "The Overcoat" is not as wacky as "The Nose," but there is a subtle undercurrent of oddness which is hard to pinpoint. It's been anthologized as a fantasy story, but it surely has little in common with your wizards-and-dragons type of fantasy. "The Overcoat" inhabits a middle ground between Russian realist literature and fantastic literature, without the blatantly absurd elements of "The Nose." A government clerk works and works to get an overcoat, to which he clings dearly, only to have it stolen from him. The realistic stories by Gogol are not drably realistic like much of Russian Literature, but are infused with an irony that underlies the text, twisting it ever so slightly. Often the reader doesn't know when Gogol is being serious and when he's taking a slightly wry angle on his own characters. These stories are very satisfying, and probably a good place to start, rather than reading one of Gogol's novels or his play _The Inspector General_. ken32

Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil

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Brilliant, Unique Prose
Six tales don't constitute author's best work
I did not read this particular edition
Department Head...
Underrated and brilliant

Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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Brilliant, Unique Prose.......2005-03-02

Gogol's _Petersburg Tales_, the title under which these stories were ultimately collected by the author, are a perfect example of the brilliance use by the author of narration, absurdity and the fantastic. Note: the reviewer who thought Gogol's narration was "childish" is really missing the boat on Gogol's style!

Very often, great short stories are a little too dense for the first-time reader to feel sucked in, but with Gogol, I only felt that I couldn't read fast enough. His sense of humor is endearing and hits the mark. His narration is unlike anything else in world literature; I can't describe it - just try it out. And his worldview is fascinating, better than Vonnegut!

Six tales don't constitute author's best work.......2002-07-24

This volume constitutes six stories by Gogol of which two are the most famous; "The Overcoat", a wonderful psychological story which was made into a film in the USSR many years ago, and "The Nose", a satire of Russian middle level officials of the early 19th century. Taken as a book, though, these tales full of dreams, asides, and great prolixity are not a major literary landmark on the world stage. Russian literature, as one of the world's greatest collections of works, offers a lot more in my opinion. Gogol, while perhaps a brilliant star for some national literatures, can only be considered a minor writer in Russia, especially if read in English as translated by David Magarshack, whose style can hardly be called `contemporary'. While it's true that Gogol had a good sense of humor, if a little bizarre, it comes across in this translation as childish. (I must hasten to add that I don't know Russian.)

"The Terrible Vengeance" is a rather tedious fairy tale with an incestuous theme, while "The Portrait" bears some likeness to a certain, later work by Oscar Wilde. Though the idea is interesting, Gogol, as in several other stories, just doesn't know when to let go. The story "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" contains lively humor and many colorful characters. I enjoyed it the most of all, but it was only the beginning of a larger work, which unfortunately seems never to have been completed.

Some analysts (see the Introduction by the translator)have read into Gogol's work pre-revolutionary predictions of violent change or a rising up of the lower classes. I think such an idea is far-fetched. Similarly, while it is true that Gogol's tales and stories do contain struggles between good and evil, the same can be said of an enormous number of folk tales, religious works, and literary pieces by writers in every language. It is interesting to read Gogol's work to widen your knowledge of Russian and world literature. That is a source of satisfaction, but perhaps not enough. Several of the stories are good, but they don't measure up to his longer works---"Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector". I would read them first, before this lesser book.

I did not read this particular edition.......2001-05-17

I was just looking and found that a book of Gogol's stories were #3 on University of Southern California's list. I was proud to see this. I'm one of Gogol's biggest fans and I keep it a secret because his talent is special, serious and fun. The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman, Dead Souls and The Nose...what more can you say. The first time I read Overcoat it was in a book of Greatest Short Novels my father had given me. I still hold on to this collection because of Gogol. To me, the Faulkner and James Joyce works included are mere book ends. Overcoat, along with Conrad's Heart of Darkness, stand alone.

Department Head..........2000-10-04

This story, one of Gogol's most famous is skillfully narrated to reflect the author's frustration with civil service and the plight of the poor, and will evoke an emotional response among listeners. Akakii Akakievich is a lowly government clerk. When winter begins he notices that his old overcoat is beyod repairing. He manages to save money for a new, luxurious coat. His colleagues at the office arrange a party for his acquisition. But his happiness proves to be short-lived. On the way home he is attaced by thieves and robbed of his coat. To recover his lost possession, Akakievich asks help from an Important Person, a director of a department with the rank of general. He treats Akakievich harshly and Akakievich dies of fright within three days. One night when the Important Person is rerutning home, he is attacked by a ghost, late Akakii Akakievich, who steals his overcoat. The stealing of outer garments continue, even though now the ghost is a big man with a moustache and enormous fists. A simpler, if perhaps more prosaic, way of restating the general thrust of the storyline would be to say that 'The Overcoat' is like a good poem. It can be endlessly annotated, interpreted, dissected, but still emerges whole and fresh, like a new morning...

Underrated and brilliant.......2000-06-29

I don't remember how I came across Gogol. But I'm glad I did. The morbid absurdity of these short stories (along with the unfinished "Dead Souls") marks him as a talented writer.

Gogol seems to be able to milk character from mundane situations, but at the same token craft words that have as much to do with Garcia Marquez' magic realism than traditional Russian literature. It is this aspect that at first caught me off guard, but in the end made me fall in love with Gogol's prose.

My two favourites are these:

"The Overcoat", the story of a poor, downtrodden man who saves and saves to buy a fancy new overcoat, but has the whole plan blow up in his face. It is tragedy, but often humourous; sad, but joyous.

"The Nose", which is one of my all time favourite short stories. Gogol manages to turn the story of one man's search for his lost nose (where does he find it? In a cathedral, of course!) into a scathing indictment of Russian caste system. It is wonderfully written and wonderfully absurd, and in the end you just go along with the context Gogol has created, because you trust that this is a writer who knows what he is doing.

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A nice change of pace

If you shine my nose, then I will eat your nose..

Short stories from the Russian heartland.

Gogol classic

Definately worth knowing

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories: The Nose; The Carriage; The Overcoat; Taras Bulba (Signet Classics)
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Gogol's characters are common people and his stories are rooted in commonplace events, but his realism is simply the doorway to a weird world of broad comedy and lunacy. "Diary of a Madman" recounts one man's struggle to be noticed by the woman he loved. His diary records his gradual slide into insanity, where he finally achieves the greatness that has eluded him in real life.

Gogol's fascination with the demonic and the irrational ultimately contributed to his own death. While he was on an extended fast, his over-zealous doctors applied leeches to his face in an attempt to alleviate his condition. But the reports show that the only effect of this treatment was to hasten the untimely and somewhat grotesque demise of this most unorthodox playwright.

Produced at the state of the art recording studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with sound effects and music.

Adapted by Elliott Hayes

Performed by Stephen Ouimette

Directed by Richard Monette

Duration Approximately 1 hour

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A nice change of pace.......2005-03-23

Modern American readers will probably find a lot of distance between themselves and Gogol, who writes with an observational comedy about the world he sees around him. But since the themes are timeless, his work will be pleasing, and often very funny, to most discerning readers.

If you shine my nose, then I will eat your nose.........2004-08-06

Gogol is out of this world.. Every story in this collection defies description. The phrase 'couldn't put it down' gets thrown around alot, but my reading of this honestly interrupted a major school project that i put off for a while. The Overcoat is my one of my favorite stories ever, and everything else was first rate. If you have a half an hour to kill, pick up this book, please.

Short stories from the Russian heartland........2004-06-02

I am not as enamored of these Russian short stories as some of the other reviewers are. The last story about Bulba depicted Jews in a very demeaning way, and you can see the stereotypes of the Eastern European Jew written into a very interesting story.
Gogol was one of the great Russian writers, but the inclusion of this shows him to be an anti-Semite. Otherwise the stories are interesting and humorous of the Tsarist times. The story of the Russian bureaucrat pretending to be Fernando VIII of Spain starts out this book and is by far the best. The others are silly stories, and the last one about Bulba shows the Polish occupation of the Ukraine in medieval times. The first and last stories are by far the best, if you can stomach the anti-Semite tone in the latter story.
Overall, an interesting and slightly humorous read. This book gives you a picture of Russia in the times of the Tsar.

Gogol classic.......2003-12-20

Gogol has the uncanny ability to write deep, beautiful and simultaneously hilarious stories. "Diary of a Madman and Other Stories" is a great example of Gogol's style of writing to anyone interested in a premier in Gogol's literary style.

Caution: don't read this book at night when everyone is asleep; you'll wake them up as you laugh outloud!

Definately worth knowing.......2003-07-24

I actually read another collection of Gogol stories but I have read "Diary of a Madman", "The Nose", and "The Overcoat". The book is worth buying for Diary of a Madman or the Nose alone. These are both great stories that really show the uniqueness and talent of Gogol which seems even more amazing when thinking he was writing in the 19th Century. The Overcoat is a good story but the other two are classics and unbelieveable works of fantasy and social commentary that still seems relevant today.

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The Overcoat And Other Short Stories
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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