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Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of fast and slow. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.

Jong and Rogers have written an in depth text covering various topics of the first courses in statics and dynamics offered in the sophomore and junior year of engineering colleges. Students are assumed to have a background in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and basic differential and integral calculus. Students with prior knowledge of college physics will have an added advantage for learning statics and dynamics. Mechanics has long been recognized as a deductive science. However, the learning p...

This supplement is divided into two parts. Part I provides a section-by-section, chapter-by-chapter summary of the key concepts, principles and equations from Russ Hibbeler's Engineering Mechanics text. Part II is a workbook which explains how to draw and use free-body diagrams when solving problems in Statics. Also included is student access code for: www.prenhall.com/hibbeler a protected Website that provides over 1000 statics/dynamics problems with solutions, MATLAB (R) and Mathcad (R) mec...

Environmental science (ecology, conservation, and resource management) is an increasingly quantitative field. A well-trained ecologist now needs to evaluate evidence generated from complex quantitative methods, and to apply these methods in their own research. Yet the existing books and academic coursework are not adequately serving most of the potential audience - instead they cater to the specialists who wish to focus on either mathematical or statistical aspects, and overwhelmingly appeal to...

This concise and authoritative book emphasizes basic principles and problem formulation. It illustrates both the cohesiveness of the relatively few fundamental ideas in this area and the great variety of problems these ideas solve. All of the problems address principles and procedures inherent in the design and analysis of engineering structures and mechanical systems, with many of the problems referring explicitly to design considerations.Sample problems are presented in a single page format wi...

This book sets forth and builds upon the fundamentals of the dynamics of natural systems in formulating the problem presented by Jacobi in his famous lecture series "Vorlesungen tiber Dynamik" (Jacobi, 1884). In the dynamics of systems described by models of discrete and continuous media, the many-body problem is usually solved in some approximation, or the behaviour of the medium is studied at each point of the space it occupies. Such an approach requires the system of equations of motion to be...

William Thurston (1946–2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose extraordinary ideas revolutionized a broad range of areas of mathematics, from foliations, contact structures, and Teichmüller theory to automorphisms of surfaces, hyperbolic geometry, geometrization of 3-manifolds, geometric group theory, and rational maps. In addition, he discovered connections between disciplines that led to astonishing breakthroughs in mathematical understandin...

Statistical Thermodynamics sets out to provide the basic groundwork that will lead 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students of chemistry and chemical engineering from their existing knowledge of elementary classical thermodynamics to an understanding of the predictable statistical behaviour of assemblies of large numbers of identical molecules, in an ideal gas at constant temperature and volume. It begins by establishing the basis of the Boltzmann distribution law and proceeds, through definitio...

This introductory text presents the basic aspects and most important features of various types of resonances and anti-resonances in dynamical systems. In particular, for each resonance, it covers the theoretical concepts, illustrates them with case studies, and reviews the available information on mechanisms, characterization, numerical simulations, experimental realizations, possible quantum analogues, applications and significant advances made over the years. Resonances are one of the most fu...

The School explored the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in these materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk lyotropic liquid crystals, chalcogenide glasses and sheet polymers, using tools from the fields of polymer physics, of differential geometry and of critical phenomena.

Which forces make a roller coaster ride so thrilling? Buckle up and read this book to take a thrilling and scientific ride.

This third edition text incorporates several new topics including; linear equations and determinants; equilibrium of non-concurrent forces in space; strain and stress concentrations around holes, notches and fillets; Saint-Venant's principles; and repeated loading and fatigue.

Acorn books provide carefully levelled non-fiction to introduce key curriculum concepts. This series introduces the core science topic of forces and motion. Includes notes for parents and teachers.