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How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies
by Daniel H. Wilson  
Powells.com Staff Pick Come on, Humans, stop kidding yourselves. You know that the robots are growing in strength. The confrontation is inevitable. You are unprepared! Buy this book or die. You pathetic bag of water. Recommended by Eugene Lamb, Powells...
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Wave Propagation in Fluids
by Vincent Guinot Publisher Comments This book presents the physical principles of wave propagation in fluid mechanics and hydraulics. The mathematical techniques that allow the behavior of the waves to be analyzed are presented, along with existing numerical methods for the simulation of...
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Mechanics of Materials (6TH 07 Edition)
by William F. Riley Publisher Comments This leading book in the field focuses on what materials specifications and design are most effective based on function and actual load-carrying capacity. Written in an accessible style, it emphasizes the basics, such as design, equilibrium, material...
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Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
by Harvard Lomax Publisher Comments This book is intended as a textbook for a first course in computational fluid dynamics and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners as well. It emphasizes fundamental concepts in developing, analyzing, and understanding numerical methods for...
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Cat's Paws and Catapults : Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People (98 Edition)
by Steve Vogel Synopsis Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials. Why do their designs diverge so sharply? Vogel compares these two worlds and introduces the reader to his field of biomechanics, explaining how the nexus of physical law, size, and...
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Supersonic Flow & Shock Waves
by Richard Courant Publisher Comments The Springer edition of this book is an unchanged reprint of Courant and Friedrich's classical treatise which was first published in 1948. The basic research for it took place during World War II, but there are many aspects which still make the book...
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Principles of Mechanics & Dynamics Volume 2
by William Thompson Publisher Comments This volume comprises works by two great physicists, whose contributions to thermodynamics and electromagnetism remain fundamental to classical physics. More than a survey of facts, these essays offer thorough and detailed explanations, with many...
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The Theory of Homogeneous Turbulence (Cambridge Science Classics)
by George K Batchelor Publisher Comments Reissue of Batchelor's classic text on the theory of turbulent motion, first published by CUP in 1953. Out of print for many years, it continues to be widely referred to in the professional literature of fluid mechanics....
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Transport Phenomena (2ND 07 Edition)
by R. Byron Bird Synopsis Careful attention is paid to the presentation of the basic theory. * Enhanced sections throughout text provide much firmer foundation than the first edition. * Literature citations are given throughout for reference to additional material....
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Mechanics of Composite Materials
by Richard M. Christensen Publisher Comments A comprehensive account of the basic theory of the mechanical behavior of heterogeneous media, this graduate-level text assembles, interprets, and interrelates contributions to the field of composite materials from theoretical research, laboratory...
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Principles of Mechanics & Dynamics Volume 1
by William Thomson Publisher Comments This volume comprises works by two great physicists, whose contributions to thermodynamics and electromagnetism remain fundamental to classical physics. More than a survey of facts, these essays offer thorough and detailed explanations, with many...
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Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain
by Raymond J. Roark Publisher Comments The Ultimate Roark's now includes-- * New material * More tables and case studies * Easier-to-read notations and figures * More accessible layout * Consistent table and equation numbering * More on experimental stress analysis and stress concentrations *...
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Laminar Flow Theory
by P A Lagerstrom Publisher Comments Fluid mechanics is one of the greatest accomplishments of classical physics. The Navier-Stokes equations, first derived in the eighteenth century, serve as an accurate mathematical model with which to describe the flow of a broad class of real fluids...
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An Introduction to Modern Variational Techniques in Mechanics and Engineering
by B. D. Vujanovic Publisher Comments This book is devoted to the basic variational principles of mechanics, namely the Lagrange--DAlembert differential variational principle and the Hamilton integral variational principle. These two variational principles form the basis of contemporary...
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Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World
by B. Lautrup Publisher Comments This textbook provides a unified, comprehensive and coherent introduction to continuum physics from a modern perspective. Continuum physics is the systematic description of the macroscopic physical world based on classical mechanics and field theory, and...
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Techniques in Visible and Ultraviolet Spectrometry #3: Material Inhomogeneities in Elasticity
by Gerard A. Maugin Publisher Comments Self contained, this book presents a thorough introduction to the complementary notions of physical forces and material (or configurational) forces. All the required elements of continuum mechanics, deformation theory and differential geometry are also...
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Topics in Fluid Mechanics
by Rene Chevray Publisher Comments This book offers a novel but unified treatment of an established subject. Rather than describe the standard topics in fluid mechanics in traditional form, the book presents each topic as part of a wider class of problems so that a unity of concepts is...
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Incompressible Flow 3RD Edition
by Ronald L Panton Publisher Comments This is the updated edition of the leading textbook of its kind on fluid mechanics covering viscous and non-viscous flow. This Third Edition retains the format and philosophy of the first two editions, with presentations of basic principles and an in...
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Applied Shape Optimization for Fluids (Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation)
by Bijan Mohammadi Publisher Comments The fields of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and optimal shape design (OSD) have received considerable attention in the recent past, and are of practical importance for many engineering applications. The present book deals with shape optimization...
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The Physics of Vibration
by A. B. Pippard Publisher Comments Planetary Mapping describes the history and process of mapping planets and satellites beyond the Earth. Mapping planetary bodies is a unique process much different from ordinary terrestrial cartography.The book begins with an introduction to the...
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