The Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses is an important interdisciplinary reference work. In addition to topics on thermal stresses, it contains entries on related topics, such as the theory of elasticity, heat conduction, thermodynamics, appropriate topics on applied mathematics, and topics on numerical methods. The Encyclopedia is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and engineers. It brings together well established knowledge and recently received results. All entries were prepared by leading experts from all over the world, and are presented in an easily accessible format. The work is lavishly illustrated, examples and applications are given where appropriate, ideas for further development abound, and the work will challenge many students and researchers to pursue new results of their own. This work can also serve as a one-stop resource for all who need succinct, concise, reliable and up to date information in short encyclopedic entries, while the extensive references will be of interest to those who need further information. For the coming decade, this is likely to remain the most extensive and authoritative work on Thermal Stresses.

International Tables for Crystallography is the definitive resource and reference work for crystallography and structural science. Now in nine volumes, each of the volumes in the series contains articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal-structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals. The data are accompanied by discussions of theory, practical explanations and examples, all of which are useful for teaching.

Un pequeño paso para un hombre... Celebrando el mayor triunfo de la exploración espacial Para conmemorar el 40 aniversario del histórico alunizaje del Apolo 11, TASCHEN ha emparejado este texto capital de Norman Mailer con espectaculares fotografias, documentacion y apuntes de los archivos de la NASA, para crear un homenaje unico a la mision cientifica que ha definido nuestra era. Ha sido llamado el acontecimiento historico puntual mas importante del siglo XX: el 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin y Michael Collins cumplieron con el llamamiento de John F. Kennedy de un alunizaje tripulado para fines de los años 1960. Una decada de pruebas y entrenamiento, un equipo de 400.000 ingenieros y cientificos, un presupuesto de 24.000 millones de dolares y el cohete mas potente jamas lanzado, todo combinado en un evento sin precedentes contemplado por millones de personas alrededor del mundo. Y nadie capto los hombres, los animos y la maquinaria como Norman Mailer. Uno de los mayores escritores del siglo XX, Norman Mailer fue contratado por la revista LIFE en 1969 para cubrir el lanzamiento lunar. Su articulo en tres partes era la pieza mas larga de no ficcion que nunca hubiera publicado la revista. Luego el autor amplio y optimizo su reportaje al profundizar sus reflexiones en el libro Un fuego en la luna, brillantemente redactado y extractado aqui por primera vez. Inclinado por igual a examinar la ciencia del viaje espacial y la psicologia de los hombres involucrados en ella -desde el ingeniero del cohete Saturno V Wernher von Braun al vital equipo de apoyo de la NASA y los tres astronautas-, Mailer brinda interioridades provocadoras y mordaces de este hito que ha hecho epoca. Edicion limitada y numerada de 1957 ejemplares. Cada ejemplar incluye una fotografia enmarcada en polimetilmetacrilato, numerada, lista para colgar y con calidad de archivo, reproducida utilizando la revolucionaria tecnica de impresion Skia y firmada por Buzz Aldrin.

El profesor Hawking ha tomado en sus manos la comprometida tarea de seleccionar y presentar, con su propia opinión científica e intelectual, aquellos textos específicos que llevaron a Einstein a ocupar un lugar de honor en la historia de la humanidad. Desde el texto en el que se revelaba la teoria de la relatividad hasta los escritos politicos y religiosos de Einstein, pasando por sus aportaciones a la fisica cuantica o a la mecanica estadistica, La gran ilusion nos ofrece todo lo que hay que saber sobre el mayor cientifico del siglo xx y, quiza, de todos los tiempos.

More than 20 years after the last book on the subject the worldwide precipitation community has produced a comprehensive overview of its activities, achievements, ongoing research and future plans. Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assimilation in numerical weather prediction models. Clouds and precipitation observations and modelling are addressed for the improvement of the rainfall product quality. Special attention is given to the applications to monitoring and forecasting weather events and to climate monitoring in a frame of growing public interest. No other book can offer to scientists, Ph.D. or equivalent students, professionals in environmental disciplines, and decision makers such a powerful tool to understand the basics of remote sensing for precipitation, to make use of existing products and to have a glimpse of the near future missions and instruments. Other categories of readers will find in the book reference material for their questions on weather and climate applications. The essays are written by the most qualified experts in the field of passive and active remote sensing, cloud and mesoscale modelling, validation and space mission planning. Top academic and research institutions and space agencies have concurred to the first joint effort ever.

This book covers the entire range of developments in the operational and research use of RADAR for meteorological applications, such as aviation, precipitation measurement and hydrology, tropical cyclone observation and forecasting and wind profiling. The book emphasises the operational aspects of Radar Meteorology. It also traces the evolution of the subject including older technologies still in use in some countries, which will help students assimilate the basic principles. A unique feature of the book is a detailed treatment of tropical cyclones as observed by radar, a topic of great interest in tropical countries. Another feature is the extensive bibliography on each topic to assist the interested reader to pursue the subject. This book is suitable as a text or reference book for professional radar meteorologists, professional training courses for personnel of meteorological services, and for university courses in atmospheric science and meteorology. Radar Meteorology

Now in its eighth edition, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics continues to offer a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of classical thermodynamics, while retaining an engineering perspective. With concise, applications-oriented discussion of topics and self-test problems the text encourages students to monitor their own comprehension. The eighth edition is updated with additional examples and end-of-chapter problems to increase student understanding. In addition, front-end Learning Objectives have been added.The text lays the groundwork for subsequent studies in fields such as fluid mechanics, heat transfer and statistical thermodynamics, and prepares students to effectively apply thermodynamics in the practice of engineering.

No hay que llevar bata para comprender la astronomía.¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cuál es el tamaño del Universo? ¿O qué lugar ocupamos en él? No te preocupes, no eres el primero. De hecho, todo ser humano que ha vivido antes que tu se lo ha planteado en algun punto de su vida.Desde que se nos ocurrio levantar la vista al cielo porvezprimera hasta nuestros dias hemos descubierto que las estrellas no son dioses, que el firmamento no da vueltas a nuestro alrededor y que existen una cantidad inimaginable de planetas ahi fuera que podrian ser capaces de albergarvida.Comenzando por la prehistoria hasta llegar a la teoria del Big Bang, pasando por el descubrimiento de los agujeros negros y de Pluton, las señales de radio, los rayos X y los rayos gamma para inspeccionar el cielo o la aparicion de objetos astronomicos nuevos, enEl universo en una taza de cafeencontraras explicaciones sencillas a temas complicados, y con la ayuda de unas cuantas ilustraciones, algo de humor y una entidad llamadavoz cursiva, que ira planteando las dudas que se te puedan ir ocurriendo, entenderas los grandes misterios que han fascinado al hombre a lo largo de la historia.

La curiosidad por conocer los secretos del Universo es tan antigua como el propio hombre. La astrofísica ha sido la ciencia que ha desvelado estos secretos, y ha permitido avanzar en la concepción del Universo: el descubrimiento de los planetas, el modelo heliocentrico, la ley de la gravedad Si la historia de estos descubrimientos es apasionante, los descubrimientos hechos en los ultimos años abren perspectivas insospechadas.La fisica y editora Joanne Baker nos ofrece una panoramica de la astrofisica para el lector que, sin ser un especialista en ciencia, este interesado por conocer como funciona el Universo. Ademas de un repaso a los conceptos esenciales, se explican de manera clara y concisa los ultimos descubrimientos sobre esta materia. En que consisten los agujeros negros, cuales son las consecuencias de la teoria de la relatividad, como se formula la teoria de las cuerdas, como podemos saber que el Universo se encuentra en expansion Este libro da respuesta a estas y otras preguntas que no dejan de fascinarnos.

The only text to cover both thermodynamic and statistical mechanics----allowing students to fully master thermodynamics at the macroscopic level. Presents essential ideas on critical phenomena developed over the last decade in simple, qualitative terms. This new edition maintains the simple structure of the first and puts new emphasis on pedagogical considerations. Thermostatistics is incorporated into the text without eclipsing macroscopic thermodynamics, and is integrated into the conceptual framework of physical theory.

In the field of molecular evolution, inferences about past evolutionary events are made using molecular data from currently living species. With the availability of genomic data from multiple related species, molecular evolution has become one of the most active and fastest growing fields of study in genomics and bioinformatics. Most studies in molecular evolution rely heavily on statistical procedures based on stochastic process modelling and advanced computational methods including high-dimensional numerical optimization and Markov Chain Monte Carlo.This book provides an overview of the statistical theory and methods used in studies of molecular evolution. It includes an introductory section suitable for readers that are new to the field, a section discussing practical methods for data analysis, and more specialized sections discussing specific models and addressing statistical issues relating to estimation and model choice. The chapters are written by the leaders of field and they will take the reader from basic introductory material to the state-of-the-art statistical methods.This book is suitable for statisticians seeking to learn more about applications in molecular evolution and molecular evolutionary biologists with an interest in learning more about the theory behind the statistical methods applied in the field.The chapters of the book assume no advanced mathematical skills beyond basic calculus, although familiarity with basic probability theory will help the reader. Most relevant statistical concepts are introduced in the book in the context of their application in molecular evolution, and the book should be accessible for most biology graduate students with an interest in quantitative methods and theory.Rasmus Nielsen received his Ph.D. form the University of California at Berkeley in 1998 and after a postdoc at Harvard University, he assumed a faculty position in Statistical Genomics at Cornell University. He is currently an Ole Romer Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and holds a Sloan Research Fellowship. His is an associate editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution and has published more than fifty original papers in peer-reviewed journals on the topic of this book.From the reviews: ''...Overall this is a very useful book in an area of increasing importance'' - "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society". (...)

This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of most cold areas on Earth. Collaborative efforts by a team of about 100 scientists and engineers have yielded knowledge entirely transferable to other high latitude regions in America, Europe and Asia. Emphases are placed on the investigation of processes (including storm genesis, precipitation, moisture and energy fluxes and frost), and the improvement and application of a suite of models and remote sensing to enhance the assessment of climate variability and water resources. This book complements the second volume coming from the GEWEX project, dealing with the region''s hydrological processes. Together these books provide a unique synthesis of atmospheric and hydrological findings and an integrative approach across disciplines in addressing major research issues of cold regions.

Electrospun Polymers and Composites: Ultrafine Materials, High Performance Fibres and Wearables reviews the latest technological developments and innovations in electrospun polymers and composites, highlighting the multifunctionality of these ultrafine materials as high performance fibers. The book's chapters investigate a wide range of different electrospinning applications, including drug delivery, tissue scaffolding, fiber reinforcement and nanofiltration, with a particular focus on shape memory effect and the wearable characteristics of electrospun polymers and composites. This will be a valuable reference resource for research and for industrial communities working in the field of electrospinning.

This revised edition provides patient guidance in its clear and organized presentation of problems. It is rich in variety, large in number and provides very careful treatment of relativity. One outstanding feature is the inclusion of simple, standard examples demonstrated in different methods that will allow students to enhance and understand their calculating abilities. There are over 145 worked examples; virtually all of the standard problems are included.