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The theory of statistical mechanics is the best link we have between the imperceptible world of atoms and molecules and our common macroscopic experience. This textbook provides the fundamental rules and relationships of statistical mechanics. Through it, students will learn how to deduce the properties of materials from an underlying understanding of the behaviour of its constituent building blocks. The textbook covers the basics of systems at rest, as well as those directly manipulated. The...

Interested in analysing complex systems? Have you considered nuclear magnetic relaxation studies to derive sound conclusions? Here’s how. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) relaxation techniques form a family of powerful tools to study and characterize liquid, solid or semi-solid materials and systems. They provide access to details directly and in wide variable ranges. This book outlines the unparalleled potential of NMR relaxation experiments to elucidate molecular dynamics. The key concepts dis...

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.

Dieses einzigartige Lehrbuch kombiniert die Grundlagen der chemischen Thermodynamik mit einem umfangreichen und praxisbezogenen Aufgaben- und Fragenteil. Das erste Kapitel stellt die Grundlagen knapp und präzise, aber auch lesbar und gut verständlich dar. Erklärt werden z.B. der Nullte bis Dritte Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik, die thermische und die kalorische Zustandsgleichung, die Entropie, partielle molare Größen, thermodynamische Potenziale und heterogene Gleichgewichte binärer und ternärer Sy...

Nonlinear dynamics has been successful in explaining complicated phenomena in well-defined low-dimensional systems. Now it is time to focus on real-life problems that are high-dimensional or ill-defined, for example, due to delay, spatial extent, stochasticity, or the limited nature of available data. How can one understand the dynamics of such systems? Written by international experts, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Where Do We Go from Here? assesses what the future holds for dynamics and chaos....

Experiments, surveys, measurements, and observations all generate data. These data can provide useful insights for solving problems, guiding decisions, and formulating strategy. Progressing from relatively unprocessed data to insight, and doing so efficiently, reliably, and confidently, does not come easily, and yet gaining insights from data is a fundamental skill for science as well as many other fields and often overlooked in most textbooks of statistics and data analysis. This accessible an...

Project practitioners and decision makers complain that both parametric and Monte Carlo methods fail to produce accurate project duration and cost contingencies in majority of cases. Apparently, the referred methods have unacceptably high systematic errors as they miss out critically important components of project risk exposure. In the case of complex projects overlooked are the components associated with structural and delivery complexity. Modern Risk Quantification in Complex Projects: Non-l...

In recent years the interaction between dynamical systems theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics has been enormous. The discovery of fluctuation theorems as a fundamental structure common to almost all non-equilibrium systems, and the connections with the free energy calculation methods of Jarzynski and Crooks, have excited both theorists and experimentalists. This graduate-level book charts the development and theoretical analysis of molecular dynamics as applied to equilibrium and no...

The following topics were covered: the study of renormalization group flows between field theories using the methods of quantum integrability, S-matrix theory and the thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz; impurity problems approached both from the point of view of conformal field theory and quantum integrability. This includes the Kondo effect and quantum wires; solvable models with 1/r² interactions (Haldane-Shastri models). Yangian symmetries in 1/r² models and in conformal field theories; correlation f...

A concise presentation of engineering mechanics theory and application, this text is committed to developing students' problem-solving skills and includes pedagogical features. Approximately 400 key figures have been rendered in often 3D photo quality detail to appeal to visual learners.

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...

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.