Category: Physics

By Jean Regis, Pierre-Hugues Roche

Acoustic neuroma results were significantly better by way of advances in microsurgical concepts, and lately through the long term program of radiosurgery, which has confirmed to be a suitable, verifiable, and very clinically suitable therapy process. This quantity brings jointly the most recent critiques of remarkable physicians and surgeons who deal with sufferers with acoustic neuromas, generally called vestibular neuromas. because the days of Cushing, whilst partial tumor elimination appeared the simplest procedure for saving a patient's lifestyles, the administration of this particularly infrequent tumor has sparked huge, immense medical interest.The e-book outlines a number of the levels within the evolution of vestibular schwannoma surgical procedure and provides the entire spectrum of present healing probabilities. the radical notion of mixing microsurgical with radiosurgical talents should still do away with difficulties corresponding to facial palsy and listening to loss that have been formerly linked to the healing administration of those tumors. the wonderful learn findings released right here through top specialists within the box can assist neurosurgeons, otologists and radiation oncologists to appreciate the big strides made over the last 20 years in vestibular schwannoma surgical procedure and radiosurgery.

By Hans Eschenauer, Niels Olhoff, Walter Schnell

In view of the transforming into significance of product legal responsibility and the call for for success of maximum standards for brand new items, this publication presents the fundamental instruments for setting up version equations in structural mechanics. also, it illustrates the transition and interrelation among structural mechanics and structural optimization. these days, this new course is very vital for extra potency within the layout approach. The booklet is split into 4 components masking the basics of elasticity, aircraft and curved load-bearing buildings and structural optimization. each one half comprises various difficulties and strategies, so one can give you the pupil with the elemental instruments from the sphere of elasticity idea and support the pro engineer in fixing difficulties.

By S. Bertolucci, U. Bottigli, P. Oliva

Excessive power physics (HEP) has an important function within the context of primary physics. HEP experiments utilize a huge array of subtle detectors to research the debris produced in high-energy scattering occasions. This publication includes the papers from the workshop 'Radiation and Particle Detectors', geared up via the foreign university of Physics, and held in Varenna in July 2009. Its topic is using detectors for examine in basic physics, astro-particle physics and utilized physics. matters coated contain the dimension of: the placement and size of ionization trails, time of flight speed, radius of curvature after bending the trails of charged debris with magnetic fields, coherent transition radiation, synchrotron radiation, electro-magnetic showers produced via calorimetric tools and nuclear cascades produced via hadrons in enormous metal detectors utilizing calorimetry. Detecting muons and the detection of Cherenkov radiation also are lined, as is the detection of neutrinos through steps within the decay schemes that are 'not there'. a lot of these equipment of detection are utilized in the big Hadron Collider (LHC). The foreign group of physicists hopes that the LHC may help to respond to a number of the such a lot primary questions in physics. This ebook can be of curiosity to all these involved during this quest. IOS Press is a global technology, technical and scientific writer of fine quality books for teachers, scientists, and execs in all fields. the various parts we submit in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and data structures -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All facets of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The wisdom economic climate -Urban experiences -Arms keep an eye on -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

By Ruth Stavy (Eds.)

By Hideo Nitta

Physik ist trocken und macht keinen Spaß? Falsch! Mit diesem Manga lernt guy die Grundlagen der Mechanik kennen, kann sie in zahlreichen Aufgaben anwenden und anhand der Lösungen seinen Lernfortschritt überprüfen? und hat auch noch eine Menge Spaß dabei!

By Inogamov N.

By Louis Lyons

This textbook is meant for undergraduates who're engaging in laboratory experiments within the actual sciences for the 1st time. it's a sensible consultant on the right way to examine facts and estimate blunders. the required formulation for acting calculations are given, and the tips at the back of them are defined, even if this isn't a proper textual content on data. particular examples are labored via step-by-step within the textual content. Emphasis is put on the necessity to take into consideration no matter if a calculated errors makes sense. scholars may still take this ebook with them to the laboratory, and the structure is meant to make this useful. The booklet will give you the precious realizing of what's concerned, should still encourage self assurance within the approach to estimating error, and let numerical calculations with out an excessive amount of attempt.

By Resnik R.

By A. Mark Smith

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the technological know-how of optics was once aimed essentially at explaining sight and accounting for why issues glance as they do. by way of the top of the 17th century, notwithstanding, the analytic concentration of optics had shifted to gentle: its primary houses and such actual behaviors as mirrored image, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shift—which A. Mark Smith characterizes because the “Keplerian turn”—lies on the center of this attention-grabbing and pioneering learn.

Breaking from prior scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler because the fruits of a long-evolving optical culture that traced again to Greek antiquity through the Muslim heart a long time, Smith offers Kepler in its place as marking a rupture with this practice, arguing that his thought of retinal imaging, which used to be released in 1604, was once instrumental in prompting the flip from sight to gentle. Kepler’s new thought of sight, Smith unearths, hence takes on precise historic importance: via treating the attention as an insignificant light-focusing machine instead of an image-producing instrument—as frequently understood—Kepler’s account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic concentration that at last resulted in smooth optics.

A sweeping survey, From Sight to mild is poised to turn into the traditional reference for historians of optics in addition to these extra commonly within the heritage of technological know-how, the background of paintings, and cultural and highbrow history.

By Christian Forstner, Dieter Hoffmann

​Während des Kalten Krieges spielten die physikalischen Wissenschaften eine zentrale Rolle in den beiden Machtblöcken. Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband nehmen zum einen das Extrem dieses Spannungsverhältnisses in den Blick, wie Ideologie und Politik die Entwicklung der Physik beeinflussten und deformierten oder wie diese Lebensläufe zerstört haben. Zum anderen bilden sie das Spannungsverhältnis Physik und Politik in ihren vielfältigen Nuancen ab. Die Breite der Beiträge reicht von der Kommunikation innerhalb der Physik, der Rolle der neutralen Staaten bis hin zur Geschichte spezifischer physikalischer Technologien und Methoden.