This book covers production planning and scheduling for high-volume, high-mixture semiconductor manufacturing. It explores topics such as work-in-process management, setup times, techniques of lot batching and splitting, lot sizing, and rescheduling questions.
Current theories fail to adequately account for energy dissipation in modern materials. Based on a new theory, this book solves problems of minimizing energy dissipation, reducing vibrations in machines, and preventing resonances, with applications in geophysics and beyond.
This book highlights a new area in laser ablation in liquid, focusing on pseudo-line tension and the cavitation bubble. It theoretically reproduces the bubble’s dynamics and offers insights into its role in nanoparticle growth and its effect on the liquid’s thermal properties.
This is the first comprehensive book on algebraic topology. It provides a walk through its main tools, including homology groups and rational homotopy theory, and discusses real applications in fields like medicine and imagery. For students, professors, and researchers.
Unleash Python’s potential in electrical and electronics engineering. This guide gives you the tools to tackle real-world problems, from data analysis to test equipment automation. Each chapter combines theory with practical examples to help you gain hands-on experience.
Quantum gravity seeks to reveal physical laws beyond the Planck scale, in a background-free world where time and distance are lost. This book introduces a renormalizable theory that helps us understand the history of the universe, from its birth to the present.
This lucid analysis of quantum mechanics emphasizes the fundamentals using Dirac’s notation. It explains the latest topics, like Quantum Computing, and features a rich collection of solved examples. This comprehensive text is ideal for graduate and research students in physics.
This book proposes a model of light knot electronic structure, challenging the interpretation of quantum entanglement and proving a paradox in the uncertainty relationship. It establishes the foundation for a deterministic, local-realism quantum mechanics.
This book explores how simple optical systems can create fascinating quantum states, including Schrödinger’s cat-type states of light. Using abundant graphics over formulas, it makes modern quantum optics accessible to scientists, teachers, and students of physics.
Explore bulk and nanostructure crystals, from crystal lattices and band theory to energy gaps. This book discusses low-dimensional systems like graphene and carbon nanotubes and is an ideal introduction for students and researchers in condensed matter physics.
This book uses AI to explore the cosmos’ biggest mystery: dark matter and dark energy. It identifies a cosmic engine fueled by dark energy and presents a solution to the cosmological constant problem that has troubled physicists for decades.
This work investigates the algebraic theory of corner subrings in Banach and C*-algebras. We propose a general approach to explore when topological properties are consequences of algebraic assumptions, with results for C*-algebras and ternary rings of operators.
Learn to diagnose the Florida landscape. A physician and Master Naturalist shows how to identify past events that have influenced today’s environments. With photos, maps, and case studies, you’ll understand the health of Florida’s ecosystems like never before.
Clarkeson turns architecture on its head, reading Palladio’s drawings as carefully crafted and meant to be measured. This book claims Palladio’s rightful place in the history of metrology, offering a fresh interpretation that dispels myths and explains ‘the bits that don’t fit’.
This book provides the “picture of reality” for the quantum world that eluded Einstein. It offers a realistic interpretation compatible with all experimental evidence, plus new perspectives on dark energy, dark matter, and stellar collapse, summarizing 50 years of research.
Journey into the minds of visionary architects who push boundaries. This book unravels the secrets behind awe-inspiring structures, exploring the digital technology and material-based forms that challenge norms and offer insights into where contemporary architecture is headed.
Turbulent fluid flows appear random, but averages like pressure and flow rate are predictable. Past mathematical models have been either too simple or too complex for practical use. This book explores a middle ground: computationally tractable yet realistic models.
Disasters impose enormous misery on children. This volume explores how to reconstruct sustainable communities that are safe for children and their families, covering topics from gender equality and child soldiers to lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami.
This book focuses on recent advances in nonlinear analysis and optimization, with applications in fields like artificial intelligence. Presenting ideas and techniques to stimulate further research, it is a valuable reference for researchers, engineers, and students.
As digital systems grow in complexity, so do the challenges of Boolean logic. This book summarizes recent progress, describing powerful approaches to solve exceptionally complex problems, from digital circuit design and testing to the future of quantum computers.