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ACS Symposium #693: Particle Size Distribution III: Assessment and Characterization
by Theodore Provder  Publisher Comments Particle size and distribution are key factors in assessing polymer chains. This volume examines a variety of recent measuring techniques, including static and dynamic light scattering methods, fractionation methods, and electrophoretic and...
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Dynamical Processes in Molecular Physics: Lectures from the First EPS Southern European School of Physics, Avila, September 1991
by G Delgado Barrio Publisher Comments This graduate text, dealing with the field of computational atomic structure, concerns itself specifically with the MultiConfiguration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach and the manner in which this approach is used in modem physics. This modem, reliable...
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Particles and Policy
by Wolfgang K Panofsky Synopsis This wide-ranging collection of essays presents the best of Panofsky's most accessible writings. It covers his early collaboration with Luis Alvarez and his later work as researcher and director at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Through several...
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Observational Cosmology with the New Radio Surveys
by M N Bremer Publisher Comments Radio surveys play an important role in observational cosmology. However, until recently the surveys have been either of wide area but with low sensitivity or of small area with high sensitivity. Both limit the kinds of cosmology that can be carried out...
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The Invisible Sky: Rosat and the Age of X-Ray Astronomy
by Bernd Aschenbach Publisher Comments "The x-ray satellite ROSAT, launched in 1990, has made a new universe visible. It has discovered over 120,000 x-ray sources and allowed us for the first time to look in new ways at stellar explosions, galactic collisions, extremely compact pulsars, black...
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Popular Physics and Astronomy (Magill Bibliographies)
by Roger Smith Synopsis An essential resource to this growing and important body of popular physics and astronomy literature. The 895 books, articles, and nonprint media are divided by subject and include chapters devoted to the history of physics, basic principles, books for...
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The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton Science Library)
by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of...
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Proceedings of the 23RD General Assembly Kyoto
by Johannes Andersen Publisher Comments IAU Transactions XXIIIB summarizes the work of the XXIIIrd General Assembly. The addresses given during the Inaugural and Closing Ceremonies are reproduced in Chapters I and III, respectively. The Proceedings of the two sessions of the General Assembly...
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Comets: Speculation and Discovery
by Nigel Calder Publisher Comments Entertaining, irreverent volume, first published in 1981 as the hoopla over the scheduled arrival of Halley's comet heated up. An exhilarating illustrated journey through centuries of conjecture and discovery, the volume considers the nature of comets...
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Dreams, Stars, & Electrons: Selected Writings of Lyman Spitzer, with Commentaries
by Lyman Spitzer Publisher Comments Lyman Spitzer, Jr., is a leading astronomer whose work has revolutionized our understanding of interstellar space and plasma physics. In addition, his proposals for a large telescope in space led after many decades to the Hubble Space Telescope. Dreams...
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Oscillations in Finite Quantum Systems (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by G F Bertsch Publisher Comments This book surveys the physics of small clusters of particles undergoing oscillations and vibrations. These oscillations occur in nuclear physics and the physics and chemistry of atomic clusters. First, the authors survey experimental information on...
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Social Issues in Technology a Format 2ND Edition
by Paul A Alcorn Publisher Comments Finely-focused on the technology-society connection, this unique primer outlines the methods and theories available for exploring the effects of technology on our lives -- past, present, and future. It is designed to give investigators the necessary...
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Weather Revolution: Innovations & Imminent Breakthroughs in Accurate Forecasting
by Jack Fishman Book News Annotation Explains the makings of weather, from winds and precipitation to disasters, and outlines recent technological innovations in weather prediction, including lasers, satellites, and supercomputers. The authors predict that within a decade scientists will...
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The Universe at Large
by Guido Munch Publisher Comments The Universe at Large presents a unique survey of key questions outstanding in contemporary astronomy and cosmology. In this timely volume, eleven of the world's greatest living astronomers and cosmologists present personal views of what problems must be...
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Cooperative Effects in Optics: Superradiance & Phase Transitions
by A V Andreev Publisher Comments Cooperative Effects in Optics: Superradiance and Phase Transitions presents a systematic treatment of the modern theory of cooperative optical phenomena-processes in which the behavior of many-body systems of radiators or absorbers is essentially...
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Earth Observation Data Policy
by Raymond Harris Synopsis Examines and analyzes data policy issues and recommends how the Earth observation sector can best develop appropriate data policies so that scientific, operational and commercial value can be maximized. The book provides summaries of international and...
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Citizen Scientist
by Frank Von Hippel Book News Annotation A powerful collection of previously published essays on scientists as advisors and as dissenters, the nuclear arms race and the scientific basis of arms control, cooperative efforts between US and Soviet scientists, the global risks of expanding...
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Countercurrent Chromatography: Apparatus, Theory and Applications
by Walter D Conway Publisher Comments This book is the first to satisfy the rapidly growing demand for detailed information on the technique of countercurrent chromatography. It covers comprehensively this modern method, which is of interest to natural scientists in many fields. Both the...
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Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium
by National Research Co Book News Annotation Every decade for half a century now, the Board on Physics and Astronomy has surveyed astronomy and astrophysics to test its health, direction, and prospects. Here it recommends new ground- based and space-based programs for the decade 2000-2010. The...
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Jupiter the Giant Planet 2ND Edition
by Reta Beebe Synopsis Introduces Jupiter and its moons, describes what is known about Jupiter's structure and magnetic field, and looks at its collision with comet fragments....
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