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Offers definitions for every area of physics - from optics and acoustics to mechanics and electronics, via quantum theory and relativity. Suitable for students, teachers, scientists, doctors, technicians and technologists, this title provides definitions of 4600 terms and concepts, with explanatory diagrams and an appendix of scientific tables.

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Introduces the basic 'variational' principles of classical physics, develops the mathematical language suited to their application, and presents applications from the physics encountered in introductory course sequences. This book is designed to supplement classical mechanics texts and to present variational principles and methods to students.

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A monograph that associates p-adic period domains to arbitrary reductive groups. Using the concept of rigid-analytic period maps, it investigates the relation of p-adic period domains to moduli space of p-divisible groups. It also establishes non-archimedean uniformization theorems for general Shimura varieties.

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Exploring the origins and implications of sudden changes in nature and society, this title examines different dynamical behaviors in a range of complex systems. Using a set of examples, from gene networks and ant colonies to human language and the degradation of diverse ecosystems, it reveals how phase transitions occur.

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This is the first translation into English of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Philoponus on Aristotle's Physics Book 4, chapters 6-9. In this section of his commentary, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's views on void (or vacuum) and motion.

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Examines how advances in philosophy were led by scientific discoveries - the more humankind understood about the physical world, the more curious we became. Drawing on work by Descartes, Galileo, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, and Newton, this book helps readers understand science through the lens of philosophy.

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A guide to the key figures in the Philosophy of Science from Plato and Aristotle through to Popper, Puttnam and Cartwright. It offers a comprehensive historical overview of this field. It introduces and explores the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein.

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A guide to the key figures in the Philosophy of Science from Plato and Aristotle through to Popper, Puttnam and Cartwright. It offers a comprehensive historical overview of this field. It introduces and explores the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein.

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"First published in Great Britain 2012."--Title page verso.

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"First published in Great Britain 2012."--Title page verso.

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Explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A A Noyes, G N Lewis, and Linus Pauling, and of key institutions, including MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Caltech. This title shows how physical chemistry was eclipsed.

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Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. P.J.E. Peebles has written a pioneering work in this newly defined area of in

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This is an introductory account of the physics of elementary particles and their interactions, with a minimum of formal apparatus and an ease of reading which, at present, is found in few other books in physics. It is designed for graduate students and for physicists not specializing in the field. The various phenomena are interpreted and correlate

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While the chemical aspects of igneous petrology have dominated research for many years, the physical processes associated with the generation, transport, and crystallization of magma have been somewhat neglected. Here a group of distinguished scientists, whose current research embraces both chemical and physical aspects of the field, illustrates th

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This book deals with the ear as an acoustic instrument: as a piece of physical apparatus functioning for the reception of sounds from the outside, for conveying them inward to the auditory sense cells, and finally for producing a mechanical stimulation of these cells. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest prin