A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This concise monograph is devoted to techniques of solving many-body proble ms in physics using the quantum-mechanical Green function method. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics, it requires s ome familiarity with the basic theory of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. Focusing on the general method, the treatment begins by establishing the connection between the Green functions and the thermodynamic and kine... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The book is devoted to the application of phase-field (diffuse interface) models in materials science. Phase-field modeling emerged only recently as a theoretical approach to tackle questions concerning the evolution of materials microstructure, the relation between microstructure and materials properties and the transformation and evolution of different phases. This volume brings together the essential thermodynamic ideas as well as the essential mat... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The De Gruyter Studies in Mathematical Physics are devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level texts in mathematical physics. They cover topics and methods in fields of current interest, with an emphasis on didactical presentation. The series will enable readers to understand, apply and develop further, with sufficient rigor, mathematical methods to given problems in physics. For this reason, works with a few authors are preferred over edi... View More...
"The mixture of prose, mathematics, and beautiful illustrations is particul arly well chosen." - American Scientist This monumental text by a noted authority in the field is specially designe d to provide an orderly structured introduction to fluid mechanics, a field all too often seen by students as an amorphous mass of disparate equations instead of the coherent body of theory and application it should be. In ad dition, the book will help upgrade students' mathematical skills as they le arn the fundamentals of fluid mechanics. The text presents a unified method of analysis that poses fluid m... View More...
First published over 40 years ago, this work has achieved the status of a c lassic among introductory texts on mechanics. Den Hartog is known for his l ively, discursive and often witty presentations of all the fundamental mate rial of both statics and dynamics (and considerable more advanced material) in new, original ways that provide students with insights into mechanical relationships that other books do not always succeed in conveying. On the o ther hand, the work is so replete with engineering applications and actual design problems that it is as valuable as a reference to the practicing... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Among introductory texts on the strength of materials, this work is particu larly distinguished. It was originally developed by Professor Den Hartog to meet the needs of engineering students at M.I.T. for a sound yet lucid fir st course in strength of materials. As such it has also enjoyed wide popula rity in engineering schools throughout the world. But the book was remarkable in a number of other ways, so that it has become one of the favorite refre... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Generalized dynamic thermoelasticity is a vital area of research in continu um mechanics, free of the classical paradox of infinite propagation speeds of thermal signals in Fourier-type heat conduction. Besides that paradox, t he classical dynamic thermoelasticity theory offers either unsatisfactory o r poor descriptions of a solid's response at low temperatures or to a fast transient loading (say, due to short laser pulses). Several models have bee n... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This book treats a wide variety of topics systematically by constructing time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau models for various systems in physics, metallurgy, and polymer science. Beginning with a summary of advanced statistical-mechanical theories including the renormalization group theory, the book reviews dynamical theories, and covers the kinetics of phase ordering, spinodal decomposition, and nucleation in depth. The phase transition dynamics of real... View More...
This book presents a study of phase field modelling of solidification in me tal alloy systems. It is divided in two main themes. The first half discuss es several classes of quantitative multi-order parameter phase field models for multi-component alloy solidification. These are derived in grand poten tial ensemble, thus tracking solidification in alloys through the evolution of the chemical potentials of solute species rather than the more commonly used solute concentrations. The use of matched asymptotic analysis for mak ing phase field models quantitative is also discussed at length, and de... View More...
In Warped Passages one of the world's most exciting scientists gives us a g limpse into our future. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughout - it allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists ar e dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Lisa Randall allows the reader to understand the kind of problems that extra dimensions might solve and the kind of speculation that is needed even to imagine them. She also gives an introduction to developments in early twentieth century physics, p article physics and string theory and addresses current debates about re... View More...
