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Elasticity and Geometry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 597

Elasticity and Geometry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-24
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

We experience elasticity everywhere in daily life: in the straightening or curling of hairs, the irreversible deformations of car bodies after a crash, or the bouncing of elastic balls in ping-pong or soccer. The theory of elasticity is essential to the recent developments of applied and fundamental science, such as the bio-mechanics of DNA filaments and other macro-molecules, and the animation of virtual characters in computer graphics and materials science. In this book, the emphasis is on the elasticity of thin bodies (plates, shells, rods) in connection with geometry. It covers such topics as the mechanics of hairs (curled and straight), the buckling instabilities of stressed plates, inc...

The Atom and the Apple
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Atom and the Apple

Balibar examines twelve problems spanning the frontiers of physics, and he devotes a chapter to each issue. --from publisher description.

Quantized Vortex Dynamics and Superfluid Turbulence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 459

Quantized Vortex Dynamics and Superfluid Turbulence

This book springs from the programme Quantized Vortex Dynamics and Sup- ?uid Turbulence held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (University of Cambridge) in August 2000. What motivated the programme was the recognition that two recent developments have moved the study of qu- tized vorticity, traditionally carried out within the low-temperature physics and condensed-matter physics communities, into a new era. The ?rst development is the increasing contact with classical ?uid dynamics and its ideas and methods. For example, some current experiments with - lium II now deal with very classical issues, such as the measurement of velocity spectra and turbulence decay rates. Th...

International Conference on Theoretical Physics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 981

International Conference on Theoretical Physics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-06
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

The International Conference on Theoretical Physics, TH-2002, took place in Paris from July 22 to 27 in the Conference Center of the UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, under aegis of the IUPAP, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and of the French and Euro pean Physical Societies, with a large support of several French, European and international Institutions. International and crossdisciplinary, TH-2002 welcomed around 1200 partic ipants representing all domains of modern theoretical physics. The conference offered a high-level scientific program, including 18 plenary lectures, 45 general lectures in thematic sessions and 140 more sp...

Spontaneous Formation of Space-Time Structures and Criticality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

Spontaneous Formation of Space-Time Structures and Criticality

This volume contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced study Institute held at Geilo, Norway between 2 - 12 april 1991. This institute was the eleventh in a series held biannually at Geilo on the subject of phase transitions. It was intended to capture the latest ideas on selforgan ized patterns and criticality. The Institute brought together many lecturers, students and active re searchers in the field from a wide range of NATO and non-NATO countries. The main financial support came from the NATO scientific Affairs Divi sion, but additional support was obtained from the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF) and Institutt for energi teknikk. The organizers would l...

From Microphysics to Macrophysics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

From Microphysics to Macrophysics

This popular, often cited text returns in a softcover edition to provide a thorough introduction to statistical physics and thermodynamics, and to exhibit the universality of the chain of ideas leading from the laws of microphysics to the macroscopic behaviour of matter. A wide range of applications illustrates the concepts, and many exercises reinforce understanding. Volume I discusses the probabilistic description of quantum or classical systems, the Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, the conservation laws, and the interpretation of entropy as missing information. Thermodynamics and electromagnetism in matter are dealt with, as well as applications to dilute and condensed gases, and to phase transitions.

Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016

The Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) symposia serve as a unique forum where developments in the design, analysis and fabrication of building geometry are presented. With participation of both academics and professionals, each symposium aims to gather and present practical work and theoretical research that responds to contemporary design challenges and expands the opportunities for architectural form. The fifth edition of the AAG symposia was hosted by the National Centre for Competence in Research Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2016. This book contains the proceedings from the AAG2016 conference and offers detailed insight into current and novel geometrical developments in architecture. The 22 diverse, peer-reviewed papers present cutting-edge innovations in the fields of mathematics, computer graphics, software design, structural engineering, and the design and construction of architecture.

Ordered and Turbulent Patterns in Taylor-Couette Flow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Ordered and Turbulent Patterns in Taylor-Couette Flow

Seldom does a physical system, particularly one as apparently simple as the flow of a Newtonian fluid between concentric rotating cylinders, retain the interest of scientists, applied mathematicians and engineers for very long. Yet, as this volume goes to press it has been nearly 70 years since G. I. Taylor's outstanding experimental and theoretical study of the linear stability of this flow was published, and a century since the first experiments were performed on rotating cylinder viscometers. Since then, the study of this system has progressed enormously, but new features of the flow patterns are still being uncovered. Interesting variations on the basic system abound. Connections with op...

Current Mathematical Problems of Mechanics and Their Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Current Mathematical Problems of Mechanics and Their Applications

This volume contains selected reports delivered at the international conference on "Modern mathematical problems of mechanics and their applications", which took place in Moscow in 1987 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Academician L. I. Sedov. The papers are devoted to a wide range of problems of modern mechanics, including general relativity and gravitation, construction and investigation of models of continuum mechanics, gas dynamics (with due regard to physical and chemical processes), hydromechanics, hydrodynamic stability and turbulence, magnetohydrodynamics, electrodynamics, and nonlinear problems of mechanics of deformable solid body. Containing results buy well-known specialists, this book is of interest to specialists in mechanics and mathematics.

Advances in Chemical Physics: Special Volume in Memory of Ilya Prigogine, Volume 135
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Advances in Chemical Physics: Special Volume in Memory of Ilya Prigogine, Volume 135

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. This stand-alone special topics volume reports recent advances in electron-transfer research with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally recognized researchers.