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INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY
General relativity is a beautiful scheme for describing the gravitational fieldandthe equations it obeys. Nowadays this theory is often used as a prototype for other, more intricate constructions to describe forces between elementary particles or other branches of fundamental physics. This is why in an introduction to general relativity it is of importance to separate as clearly as possible the various ingredients that together give shape to this paradigm. After explaining the physical motivations we first introduce curved coordinates, then addto this the notion of an affine connection fieldandonly as a later step addto that the metric field. One then sees clearly how space and time get more and more structure, until finally all we have to do is deduce Einstein’s field equations.
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LA BIOLOGIE, DES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS UNE HISTOIRE DES IDEES ET DES HOMMES
En 1802, le terme biologie est cree independamment par deux naturalistes, le francais Jean-Baptiste LAMARCK et I'allemand Gottfried TREVIRANUS, pour designer une science qui etudie les differentes formes de vie ainsi que les condi tions et les lois qui regissent le phenomene du vivant.
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Introduction to Fourier Optics
Since the subject covered is Fourier Optics, it is natural that the methods of Fourier analysis play a key role as the underlying analytical structure of our treatment. Fourier analysis is a standard part of the background of most physicists and engineers. The theory of linear systems is also familiar, especially to electrical engineers. Chapter 2 reviews the necessary mathematical background. For those not already familiar with Fourier analysis and linear systems theory, it can serve as the outline for a more detailed study that can be made with the help of other textbooks explicitly aimed at this subject. Ample references are given for more detailed treatments of this material. For those who have already been introduced to Fourier analysis and linear systems theory, that experience has usually been with functions of a single independent variable, namely time. The material presented in Chapter 2 deals with the mathematics in two spatial dimensions (as is necessary for most problems in optics), yielding an extra richness not found in the standard treatments of the one-dimensional theory.
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Dance, Ageing and Collaborative Arts-Based Research
The book focuses on the development of an innovative arts-based program for older adults and the collaborative process of exploring and understand- ing its impact in relation to ageing, social inclusion, and care.
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Introduction to Continuum Mechanic
The first edition of this book was published in 1974, nearly twenty years ago. It was written as a text book for an introductory course in continuum mechanics and aimed specifically at the junior and senior level of undergraduate engineering curricula which choose to introduce to the students at the undergraduate level the general approach to the subject matter of continuum mechanics. We are pleased that many instructors of continuum mechanics have found this little book serves that purpose well. However, we have also understood that many instructors have used this book as one of the texts for a beginning graduate course in continuum mechanics. It is this latter knowledge that has motivated us to write this new edition. In this present edition, we have included materials which we feel are suitable for a beginning graduate course in continuum mechanics.
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A PLACE MORE VOID
Heartfelt thanks to the book’s contributors, whose patience and hard work ensured our editorial tasks went swimmingly. We also gratefully acknowl- edge the contributions of all those who participated in the fi ve (!) “Into the Void” sessions at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
This book was written as a textbook or guidebook on fluid mechanics for students or junior engineers studying mechanical or civil engineering. The recent progress in the science of visualisation and computational fluid dynamics is astounding. In this book, effort has been made to introduce students /engineers to fluid mechanics by making explanations easy to understand, including recent information and comparing the theories with actual phenomena. Fluid mechanics has hitherto been divided into ‘hydraulics’, dealing with the experimental side, and ‘hydrodynamics’, dealing with the theoretical side. In recent years, however, both have merged into an inseparable single science. A great deal was contributed by developments in the science of visualisation and by the progress in computational fluid dynamics using advances in computers. This book is written from this point of view.
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Introduction to STATICS and DYNAMICS
The following are amongst those who have helped with this book as editors, artists, tex programmers, advisors, critics or suggestors and creators of content: Alexa Barnes, Joseph Burns, Jason Cortell, Ivan Dobrianov, Gabor Domokos, Max Donelan, Thu Dong, Gail Fish, Mike Fox, John Gibson, Robert Ghrist, Saptarsi Haldar, Dave Heimstra, Theresa Howley, Herbert Hui, Michael Marder, Elaina McCartney, Horst Nowacki, Arthur Ogawa, Kalpana Pratap, Richard Rand, Dane Quinn, Phoebus Rosakis, Les Schaeffer, Ishan Sharma, David Shipman, Jill Startzell, Saskya van Nouhuys, Bill Zobrist. Mike Coleman worked extensively on the text, wrote many of the examples and homework problems and created many of the figures. David Ho has drawn or improved most of the computer art work. Some of the homework problems are modifications from the Cornell’s Theoretical and Applied Mechanics archives and thus are due to T&AM faculty or their libraries in ways that we do not know how to give proper attribution. Our editor Peter Gordon has been patient and supportive for too many years. Many unlisted friends, colleagues, relatives, students, and anonymous reviewers have also made helpful suggestions.
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Introduction to Differential Geometry & General Relativity
You may be wondering: what holds the neutron star up? Neutrons are chargeless and the nuclear force between neutrons (and protons) is only attractive, so what keeps the neutron star from further collapse? Just as with electrons, neutrons obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle. Consequently, they avoid one another when they are confined and have a sizable kinetic energy due to the uncertainty principle. If the neutrons are nonrelativistic, the previous calculation for the radius of the white dwarf star will work just the same, with the replacement me ’ mn. This change reduces the radius R0 of the neutron star by a factor of ‡2000 (the ratio of mn to me) and R0 ‡ 10 km. One of these would comfortably fit on Long Island but would produce somewhat disruptive effects.
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Kant’s Theory of Biology
Whereas early modern advocates of experimental philosophy, Cartesian mechanism, and Newtonian mathematical physics avoided positing final causes and teleological explanations, many philosophers and natural researchers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries believed that efficient causes and non-teleological explanations were insufficient to explain the processes that regularly occurred in nerves and muscles, and in plant and animal generation, and thus tried to reinstate final causes and teleological explanations.
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Gender, Food and COVID-19 Global Stories of Harm and Hope
We would like to thank all of the people who wrote for the blog on Gender, Food, Agriculture and Coronavirus. We wish we could have published all of the blogs, but for the purposes of having a short book that was published in a timely fashion, we could only choose a small selection of authors.
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
Between 1971 and 1973 I audited all the courses medical students take in their first two years at the University of Minnesota. I was amazed at the amount of physics I found in these courses and how little of it is discussed in the general physics course. I found a great discrepancy between the physics in some papers in the biological research literature and what I knew to be the level of understanding of most biology majors or premed students who have taken a year of physics. It was clear that an intermediate-level physics course would help these students. It would provide the physics they need and would relate it directly to the biological problems where it is useful.
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PHYSICS
At one step in the calculation, we note that one million cubic centimeters make one cubic meter. Our result is indeed close to the expected value. Since the last reported significant digit is not certain, the difference in the two values is probably due to measurement uncertainty and should not be a concern. One important common-sense check on density values is that objects which sink in water must have a density greater than 1 g cm3 , and objects that float must be less dense than water.
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Impedance Spectroscopy Theory, Experiment, and Applications
The principal audience that will benefit from this book are M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with specialization in physical chemistry, electrochemistry, or physics, as well as researchers and engineers in the field of electrochemistry, particularly in areas of semiconductors, solid electrolytes, corrosion, solid state devices, and electrochemical power sources. Impedance spectroscopy has firmly established itself as one of the most informative and irreplaceable investigation methods in these areas of research. In addition, the book provides a valuable source of information and resource for established researchers and engineers working in one or more of the above fields.
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Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents
The history of cosmopolitanism is commonly traced from Dio- genes to Kant to Levinas up to contemporary thinkers such as Ulrich Beck, Martha Nussbaum, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Judith Butler.
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ASSEMBLING MORAL MOBILITIES
This book was written with the support of a heterogeneous actor- network, including scholars, cities, comrades, and their bicycles. I’m a slow typist, and the manuscript is already four days late, so I’ll be brief. It couldn’t have happened without financial support from Can -ada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and therefore the intrepid Natasha Wiebe at the University of Windsor, who helped me secure this funding