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This first edition of G.O. James' book was published in 1905 by Wiley & Sons in New York in an edition of a thousand. It has since been reprinted numerous times. 176 pages + a 16 page catalog from Wiley & Sons. Rare thus. ... Read more

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The Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity was held in honour of Professor Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday in Singapore on 24-26 February 2010. The conference paid tribute to Professor Gell-Mann's great achievements in the elementary particle physics. This notable birthday volume contains the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists, including Nobel laureates C N Yang, G 't Hooft and K Wilson. Other invited speakers include G Zweig, N Samios, M Karliner, G Karl, M Shifman, J Ellis, S Adler and A Zichichi. ... Read more

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The early twentieth century brought about the rejection by physicists of the doctrine of determinism--the belief that complete knowledge of the initial conditions of an interaction in nature allows precise and unambiguous prediction of the outcome.This book traces the origins of a central problem leading to this change in viewpoint, paradoxes raised by attempts to formulate a consistent theory of the nature of light. Dr. Wheaton discusses the experimental work on the new forms of radiation found at the turn of the century and shows how the interpretation of energy transfer from x-rays to matter gradually transformed a classical wave explanation of light to one based on particle-like quanta of energy. Further, he explains how, at the end of the period between the discovery of x-rays (1896) and the invention of quantum mechanics (1925), influential scientists came reluctantly to accept a wave-like interpretation of matter as well.The result was the adoption of "wave-particle dualism," according to which light and matter are interpreted as both particulate and wave-like.One result of his analysis is an explanation of why there were two independent but equivalent formulations of the new quantum mechanics.This distinctly different account of one of the major rhetorical shifts in modern physical thought will be of fundamental interest to physical scientists and philosophers, as well as to historians of science. ... Read more

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This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop held at The Fields Institute in June 1992 both as a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the publication of "Foundations of Mechanics" by Ralph Abraham and Jerrold Marsden and as a celebration of Marsden's 50th birthday. The publication of that first edition marked a period of remarkable resurgence in all aspects of mechanics, which has continued through the publication of the second edition in 1978, deeply nourished by contacts with a variety of areas of mathematics, including topology, differential geometry, Lie theory, and partial differential equations. The papers collected in this volume reflect these fruitful ties as well as some others, strengthened over the last two decades, with areas of applied science including control theory. ... Read more

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The Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurement technique has undergone a strong development in the last 10 years. This book presents the proceedings of an international workshop held in Zaragoza, Spain on March 31st and April 1st 2003 containing contributions from worldwide leading teams in the development of the PIV method. Most of these papers have been funded by the EC via the European EUROPIV 2 consortium to improve the performances of this measurement technique toward applications in the European Aeronautical industry, including results which are of strong interest for the worldwide community in Fluid Dynamics.

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Some of the most original and productive research specialists in the field of particle-fluid flow systems are assembled in this book, which is an important and current reference volume. The book focuses on methods of measurement and options for engineers ... Read more

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A book in a series on Physics in a New Era, that contains an assessment & recommendation about the role that the U.S. should play in the research of element-particle physics. Paper. ... Read more

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Explains the fundamental principles of the mechanics of particles and rigid bodies. Revised edition contains two new chapters on dynamical systems and their geometry, and on order and chaos and appendices on conic sections and classification of the behavior of dynamical system near a critical point. Paper. ... Read more

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Chapters: Coriolis Effect, Centrifugal Force, Mechanics of Planar Particle Motion, Fictitious Force, Euler Force, Einstein Force. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article describes a particle in planar motion when observed from non-inertial reference frames. The most famous examples of planar motion are related to the motion of two spheres that are gravitationally attracted to one another, and the generalization of this problem to planetary motion. See centrifugal force, two-body problem, orbit and Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Those problems fall in the general field of analytical dynamics, the determination of orbits from given laws of force. This article is focused more on the kinematical issues surrounding planar motion, that is, determination of the forces necessary to result in a certain trajectory given the particle trajectory. General results presented in fictitious forces here are applied to observations of a moving particle as seen from several specific non-inertial frames, for example, a local frame (one tied to the moving particle so it appears stationary), and a co-rotating frame (one with an arbitrarily located but fixed axis and a rate of rotation that makes the particle appear to have only radial motion and zero azimuthal motion). The Lagrangian approach to fictitious forces is introduced. Unlike real forces such as electromagnetic forces, fictitious forces do not originate from physical interactions between objects. The appearance of fictitious forces normally is associated with use of a non-inertial frame of reference, and their absence with use of an inertial frame of reference. The connection between inertial frames and fictitious forces (also called inertial forces or pseudo-forces), is expressed, for example, b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19768186 ... Read more