Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Physics - General

Part 1 contains an accessible introduction to...

Part 1 contains an accessible introduction to...

This revised edition continues to provide a beautifully written, accessible introduction to the physical and quantitative aspects of biological systems and processes involving macromolecules, subcellular structures, and whole cells. It includes two entirely new chapters covering experimental techniques, to complement coverage of mathematical and computational tools, as well as additions to its multimedia component of video clips and animations, as well as interactive diagrams and graphs.

This book addresses the processes of stochastic structure formation in two-dimensional geophysical fluid dynamics based on statistical analysis of Gaussian random fields, as well as stochastic structure formation in dynamic systems with parametric excitation of positive random fields f(r, t) described by partial differential equations. Further, the book considers two examples of stochastic structure formation in dynamic systems with parametric excitation in the presence of Gaussian pumping. In dynamic systems with parametric excitation in space and time, this type of structure formation...

• Describes spintronic applications in current and future magnetic recording devices
• Discusses spin-transfer torque...

Aimed at new and trainee physics teachers particularly non-specialists, this book provides the knowledge and skills you need to teach physics effectively at secondary level. It provides the historical narrative of the Big Ideas in physics, explaining the significance of each idea and its place in scientific history. Each Big Idea comes with a set of lesson activities that get your students to think alongside clear explanations of how they can be used. It also discusses the models used to explain complex ideas and suggests methods of assessing learning. Including a wide range of teaching...

Aimed at new and trainee physics teachers particularly non-specialists, this book provides the knowledge and skills you need to teach physics effectively at secondary level. It provides the historical narrative of the Big Ideas in physics, explaining the significance of each idea and its place in scientific history. Each Big Idea comes with a set of lesson activities that get your students to think alongside clear explanations of how they can be used. It also discusses the models used to explain complex ideas and suggests methods of assessing learning. Including a wide range of teaching...

Within our lifetime, scientific advances have fundamentally changed our world.

This book describes scientific advances in five areas that changed the course of humanity, and set the stage for our generation and those to follow to play out our lives. These advances underpinned technological revolutions, and transformed some of our most basic notions of how the world works.

• Aircraft and the air transport revolution
• Nuclear energy: Mankind's saviour or curse?
• Relativity and the nature of time and space
• The electricity, electronics and digital...

Nanotechnology for Microelectronics and Photonics, Second Edition has been thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated. The aim of the book is to present the most recent advances in the field of nanomaterials, as well as the devices being developed for novel nanoelectronics and nanophotonic systems. It covers the many novel nanoscale applications in microelectronics and photonics that have been developed in recent years. Looking to the future, the book suggests what other applications are currently in development and may become feasible within the next few decades based on novel...

This monograph presents a new perspective on the history of general relativity. It outlines the attempts to establish an institutional framework for the promotion of the field during the Cold War. Readers will learn the difficulties that key figures experienced and overcame during this period of global conflict.

The author analyzes the subtle interconnections between scientific and political factors. He shows how politics shaped the evolution of general relativity, even though it is a field with no military applications. He also details how different scientists held quite different...