Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Physics - General

This book analyzes scientific problems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches and the organization of technological researches in the development of industrial applications?

The authors explain various ways in which the sciences allowed advanced modelling on the one hand, and the development of new technological ideas on the other hand. An emphasis on...

This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Drawing chiefly on Euler's massive published works and correspondence, which fill more than eighty volumes so far, this biography sets Euler's work in its multilayered context--personal, intellectual, institutional, political, cultural, religious,...

Die Magnetpulverprufung ist ein zerstorungsfreies Verfahren zur Prufung von metallischen und nichtmetallischen Werkstoffen auf Oberflachenfehler. Das Buch behandelt die physikalischen und die verfahrensspezifischen Grundlagen, die Magnetisierung und Entmagnetisierung, Prufmittel, die Prufsystem- und Verfahrenskontrollen, die Gerate-, Pruf- und Auswertetechniken der Magnetpulverprufung, die Unganzen im Fertigungsprozess und bei der Betriebsbeanspruchung sowie die Durchfuhrung von Magnetpulverprufungen. Weitere Themen sind die Klassifizierung und Beurteilung von Anzeigen, die Grenzen des...

With the recent development of new experimental approaches and methodologies, it is becoming clear that cells and tissues are not regulated by biochemical signals alone. Indeed, physical cues arising in the biological microenvironment are directly coupled to the biochemical regulation of living systems. This book provides a broad overview of how mechanical forces and properties govern diverse aspects of physiological and pathological processes. It also covers new emerging techniques developed to study complex biosystems such as microfluidics, traction force microscopy, and the development...

A stand-alone laboratory manual for molecular biophysics, this book presents essential techniques that need to be understood by any experimentalist working with biological samples. The organization of topics follows a logical experimental progression, beginning with a DNA construct, which is amplified, mutated, or fused to another gene, expressed in bacteria, and purified as either a protein or plasmid DNA. Readers are shown how the purified protein is characterized using spectroscopy, crystallography, and lipid bilayer expression. Finally, they see how the purified plasmid DNA is...

This book bridges the gap between life sciences and physical sciences by providing several perspectives on cellular and molecular mechanics on a fundamental level. It begins with a general introduction to the scales and terms that are used in the field of cellular and molecular biomechanics and then moves from the molecular scale to the tissue scale. It discusses various tissues or cellular systems through the chapters written by prominent engineers and physicists working in various fields of biomechanics.

"Big picture" items, such as the number of atoms in cells and the number of cells...

Why do giraffes have long necks? It can't really be for reaching tasty leaves since their main food is ground level bushes, tidy though that explanation would be. And how does relativity theory cope with the fact that the observable universe defies prediction by being far too small and anything but homogeneous? By inventing a vastly larger, but invisible, universe. And what exactly should we make of the scientists who claim to be witnessing thought itself, when the changes of blood flow in the brain that they observe are a thousand times slower than the neuronal activity it is supposed to...

Dilettanten, Grenzganger, Querdenker, unerwunschte Reformer - in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte sind sie vielfach vertreten, als Auenseiter, die mit unkonventionellen Ideen die Wissenschaft bereichert haben. Johannes Kepler und Paracelsus, Charles Darwin und Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Wegener, Barbara McClintock und Hoimar von Ditfurth - ihnen und vielen anderen Forschern und Gelehrten ist gemeinsam, dass sie Neuland betreten oder sich mit Problemen in Disziplinen befasst haben, die nicht ihre eigenen waren. Sie waren Abenteurer, "Amateure" (im besten Sinn des Wortes), haben herrschende...