Physics

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Handbook of Physics is a veritable toolbox for rapid access to a wealth of physics information for everyday use in problem solving, homework, and examinations. This complete reference includes not only the fundamental formulas of physics but also experimental methods used in practice.

Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building superfast computers. Yet, as with GMOs, many view nanotech as a high risk genie in a bottle that once uncorked has the potential to cause unpredictable, perhaps irreversible, environmental and public health disasters. With the race to bring products to market, there is pressing need to take stock of the situation and to have a full public debate about this new technological frontier. Including contributions by renowned figures such as Roland Clift, K. Eric Drexler and Arpad Pusztai, this is the first global overview of the state of nanotech and society in Europe, the USA, Japan and Canada, examining the ethics, the environmental and public health risks, and the governance and regulation of this most promising, and potentially most dangerous, of all technologies.

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Among the topics covered are: • Acceleration • Ballistics • Boiling Point • Catalyst • Data Communications • Electrolyte • Frequency Modulation • Gamma Radiation • Inertia • Prism • Relative Atomic Mass • Transverse Waves • White Dwarf • X-rays. Biographies include: • Alexander Graham Bell • Arthur Holly Compton • Pierre Curie • Sir James Dewar • Christian Doppler • Albert Einstein • Euclid • Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit • Hans William Geiger • Stephen Hawking • Pythagoras. Tables

As the subtitle implies, this reference is a compilation of the key equations and fundamental concepts typically covered in a graduate programme. All areas of physics are covered including mathematical physics, solid state, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and optics. Featuring information such as trigonometric and vector identities and special functions, this reference should provide key information for industrial and academic researchers. The book also includes a bibliography providing the reader with thorough references to texts on the individual subject areas.

This book consists of material in the first chapter of A Physicist's Desk Reference, updated and supplemented by additional new data. It's a self-contained, quick reference guide to the most commonly used mathematical formulas, tables of data, symbols, units, standard nomenclature, and fundamental constants in physics. A useful bibliography to more complete sources of data is also included.

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Expanded, revised and updated here, this detailed guide is truly unique, giving accurate metric equivalents and conversion factors for no fewer than 10,000 scientific units with detailed descriptions of over 2,000. It covers the whole spectrum of science, technology and medicine, and deals with US, British, conventional metric, historic and SI units. The pocket-sized format and slot-in user guide bookmark makes it handy and user-friendly, a great time-saver, and a perfect addition to any research department, engineers , scientists or students library.

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A collection of fundamental formulae and definitions in plasma physics vital to anyone with an interest in plasmas or ionized gases, whether in physics, astronomy or engineering. Ranging over plasma waves, flows, beams and jets, instabilities, particle drifts and kinetic theory, model equations and parametric data, this handbook will become an indispensable quick reference to the formulae needed for the active plasma researcher.