ilość książek w kategorii: 51538
The Restless Universe: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton
ISBN: 9780195148473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Carl Sagan once noted that there is only one generation that gets to see things for the first time. We are in the midst of such a time right now, standing on the threshold of discovery in the young and remarkable field of X-ray astronomy. In The Restless Universe, astronomer Eric Schlegel offers readers an informative survey of this cutting-edge science.
Two major space observatories launched in the last few years--NASA's Chandra and the European Newton--are now orbiting the Earth, sending back a gold mine of data on the X-ray universe. Schlegel, who has worked on the Chandra project for... Carl Sagan once noted that there is only one generation that gets to see things for the first time. We are in the midst of such a time right now, stan...
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125,02 zł |
Cellular Computing
ISBN: 9780195155396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The completion of the first draft of the human genome has led to an explosion of interest in genetics and molecular biology. The view of the genome as a network of interacting computational components is well-established, but researchers are now trying to reverse the analogy, by using living organisms to construct logic circuits. The potential applications for such technologies is huge, ranging from bio-sensors, through industrial applications to drug delivery and diagnostics. This book would be the first to deal with the implementation of this technology, describing several working...
The completion of the first draft of the human genome has led to an explosion of interest in genetics and molecular biology. The view of the genome as...
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408,67 zł |
Cellular Computing
ISBN: 9780195155402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The completion of the first draft of the human genome has led to an explosion of interest in genetics and molecular biology. The view of the genome as a network of interacting computational components is well-established, but researchers are now trying to reverse the analogy, by using living organisms to construct logic circuits. The potential applications for such technologies is huge, ranging from bio-sensors, through industrial applications to drug delivery and diagnostics. This book would be the first to deal with the implementation of this technology, describing several working...
The completion of the first draft of the human genome has led to an explosion of interest in genetics and molecular biology. The view of the genome as...
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263,24 zł |
Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications
ISBN: 9780195159776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behavior, reflecting a hierarchical or fractal structure. Many of these phenomena seem to be susceptible to description using approaches drawn from thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, particularly approaches involving the maximization of entropy and of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics and standard laws in a natural way. The book addresses the interdisciplinary applications of these ideas, and also on various phenomena that could possibly be quantitatively describable in terms of these ideas.
A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behavior, reflecting a hierarchical or fractal structure. Many of the...
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365,04 zł |
Statistical Mechanics of Solids
ISBN: 9780195167177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This monograph, suitable for use as an advanced text, presents the statistical mechanics of solids from the perspective of the material properties of the solid state. The statistical mechanics are developed as a tool for understanding properties and each chapter includes useful exercises to illustrate the topics covered. Topics discussed include the theory of the harmonic crystal, the theory of free electrons in metal and semiconductors, electron transport, alloy ordering, surfaces and polymers.
This monograph, suitable for use as an advanced text, presents the statistical mechanics of solids from the perspective of the material properties of ...
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394,13 zł |
Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law
ISBN: 9780195167375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon remain mute; and slowly, patiently, one sentence at a time, we write our own version of the book of nature. It is called science, from the Latin word for knowledge, and it is a book everybody should read.
With simplicity and elegance, Knowing interprets the book of nature for curious readers of all sorts--but especially for those hoping to appreciate the beauty of physics without getting lost in the mathematics. Indeed, there is a world of scientific understanding in the pages of this gracefully written and... We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon remain mute; and slowly, patiently, one sentence at a time, we write...
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202,59 zł |
Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress
ISBN: 9780195171273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the reliability and accuracy of these instruments without a circular reliance on the instruments themselves. In a discussion that brings together the history of science with the philosophy of science, Chang...
What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them t...
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624,40 zł |
The Stars of Heaven
ISBN: 9780195171594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, you don't have to be an astronomer to explore the mysteries of stars and their profound meaning for human existence. Clifford A. Pickover tackles a range of topics from stellar evolution to the fundamental reasons why the universe permits life to flourish. He alternates sections that explain the mysteries of the cosmos with sections that dramatize mind-expanding concepts through a fictional dialog between futuristic...
Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe. With thi...
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141,99 zł |
Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials
ISBN: 9780195171815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a selective and fascinating history of scientific speculation about intelligent extraterrestrial life. From Plutarch to Stephen Hawking, some of the most prominent western scientists have had quite detailed perceptions and misperceptions about alien civilizations: Johannes Kepler, fresh from transforming astronomy with his work on the shape of planetary orbits, was quite sure alien engineers on the moon were excavating circular pits to provide shelter; Christiaan Huygens, the most prominent physical scientist between Galileo and Newton, dismissed Kepler's speculations, but used...
This book is a selective and fascinating history of scientific speculation about intelligent extraterrestrial life. From Plutarch to Stephen Hawking, ...
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207,44 zł |
Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
ISBN: 9780195175592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what
they observed in their laboratories. Trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum Enigma explores what that implies and why some founders... The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can y...
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774,85 zł |
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons
ISBN: 9780195181999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly dynamic and complex nature of synapses, dendrites, and voltage-dependent ionic currents. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons challenges this notion, using richly detailed experimental and theoretical findings from cellular biophysics to explain the repertoire of computational functions available to single neurons. The author shows how individual nerve cells can multiply, integrate, or delay synaptic inputs and how...
Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly dynamic and compl...
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428,06 zł |
Quantum Monte Carlo: Origins, Development, Applications
ISBN: 9780195310108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Monte Carlo methods are a class of computational algorithms for simulating the behavior of a wide range of various physical and mathematical systems (with many variables). Their utility has increased with general availability of fast computers, and new applications are continually forthcoming. The basic concepts of Monte Carlo are both simple and straightforward and rooted in statistics and probability theory, their defining characteristic being that the methodology relies on random or pseudo-random sequences of numbers. It is a technique of numerical analysis based on the approximate...
Monte Carlo methods are a class of computational algorithms for simulating the behavior of a wide range of various physical and mathematical systems (...
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408,67 zł |
Organic Spectroscopic Structure Determination: A Problem-Based Learning Approach
ISBN: 9780195314700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Organic Spectroscopic Structure Determination is a sophomore-level book with emphasis on structure problem solving. It consists of four sections that attempt to engage the imagination of the student. Taber has arranged the material in such a way that the students can work the problems and learn the procedures on their own, minimizing the time taken in lecture. The first section contains three chapters of instruction on the methods of organic spectroscopy. The second contains fifty problems with just data sets of spectroscopic data. The third section is comprised of fifty problems...
Organic Spectroscopic Structure Determination is a sophomore-level book with emphasis on structure problem solving. It consists of four secti...
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151,74 zł |
Physica
ISBN: 9780198145141 / Angielski / Twarda / 1951 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the natural sciences.
A new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the natural sciences.
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141,99 zł |
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
ISBN: 9780198235071 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ever since David Hume, empiricists have barred powers and capacities from nature. In this book Cartwright argues that capacities are essential in our scientific world, and, contrary to empiricist orthodoxy, that they can meet sufficiently strict demands for testability. Econometrics is one discipline where probabilities are used to measure causal capacities, and the technology of modern physics provides several examples of testing capacities (such as lasers). Cartwright concludes by applying the lessons of the book about capacities and probabilities to the explanation of the role of causality...
Ever since David Hume, empiricists have barred powers and capacities from nature. In this book Cartwright argues that capacities are essential in our ...
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226,83 zł |
Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View
ISBN: 9780198239802 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and methods of the semantic approach to scientific theories, van Fraassen discusses quantum theory in three stages. He first examines the question of whether and how empirical phenomena require a non-classical theory, and what sort of theory they require. He then discusses the mathematical foundations of quantum theory with special reference to developments in the modelling of interaction, composite systems, and measurement. Finally, the author broaches the main questions of interpretation. After...
After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and methods of the semantic approach to scientific theories,...
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302,02 zł |
Incompleteness Nolocality and Realism
ISBN: 9780198242383 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Aiming to unravel the mystery of quantum mechanics, this book is concerned with questions about action-at-a-distance, holism, and whether quantum mechanics gives a complete account of microphysical reality. With rigorous arguments and clear thinking, the author provides an introduction to the philosophy of physics.
Aiming to unravel the mystery of quantum mechanics, this book is concerned with questions about action-at-a-distance, holism, and whether quantum mech...
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302,02 zł |
Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
ISBN: 9780198242895 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Quantum field theory, one of the most rapidly developing areas of contemporary physics, is full of problems of great theoretical and philosophical interest. This collection of essays is the first systematic exploration of the nature and implications of quantum field theory. The contributors discuss quantum field theory from a wide variety of standpoints, exploring in detail its mathematical structure and metaphysical and methodological implications.
Quantum field theory, one of the most rapidly developing areas of contemporary physics, is full of problems of great theoretical and philosophical int...
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268,09 zł |
The Description of Nature
ISBN: 9780198249764 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Niels Bohr, founding father of modern atomic physics and quantum theory, was as original a philosopher as he was a physicist. This study explores several dimensions of Bohr's vision: the formulation of quantum theory and the problems associated with its interpretation, the notions of complementarity and correspondence, the debates with Einstein about objectivity and realism, and his sense of the infinite harmony of nature. Honner focuses on Bohr's epistemological lesson, the conviction that all our description of nature is dependent on the words we use and the ways we can unambiguously use...
Niels Bohr, founding father of modern atomic physics and quantum theory, was as original a philosopher as he was a physicist. This study explores seve...
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369,84 zł |
The Market for Energy
ISBN: 9780198286080 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Written in light of recent advances in the field, this book is an up-to-date account of economic aspects of the energy markets. The editors fully consider the implications for regulation, privatization, and international competition in each of the major markets--electricity, gas, coal, and oil.
Written in light of recent advances in the field, this book is an up-to-date account of economic aspects of the energy markets. The editors fully cons...
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287,48 zł |