Electronics and Microprocessing for Research, 2nd Edition
A beginner’s guide to electronics, programming, and microprocessing with Arduino. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book explains how to control components and read sensors. With hands-on lab activities, you’ll learn to turn your project ideas into functional prototypes.
Space, Life, Science and Stories
Surges of public interest in life from the cosmos often leave people confused and exploited. This book explores the causes of these surges, the stories they generate, and the relevant science, allowing you to become aware of the facts and judge them for yourself.
This work offers a holistic approach to landscape, agriculture, forests, and natural sciences. Featuring research from 50 expert contributors, it’s an excellent starting point for anyone looking to learn more about these topics.
Semirings are used in cryptography as their additive operation lacks an inverse, preventing cryptosystem breakage. This book describes such protocols and the hard math their security is based on, appealing to cryptographers and specialists in applied algebra.
Multivariate Techniques
This book covers both theoretical and applied aspects of multivariate analyses. It provides an overview of key terminology and distributions before discussing methods of drawing inferences, multivariate analysis of variance, and multivariate regression.
A Victorian Architectural Controversy
Who was the true architect of the New Houses of Parliament? Charles Barry, the winner of the competition, or Augustus Pugin, the ‘ghost’ designer? After both men died, the controversy became a public dispute, fueled by the directly-opposed claims of their sons.
An accessible guide to organic coatings, this book explains the chemical reactions and mechanisms of film formation. Examples and exercises provide technical insights and a deep understanding of the principles, while demonstrating how to use rheology to solve technical problems.
Dialogues on the New Physics
Eurythmic physics seeks to unify physics for a clearer view of nature. This book develops this approach, arguing that because physical phenomena are not linear, they must be understood from a nonlinear, interrelated, and complex perspective.
This book covers the principles, types, and manufacturing of antistatic and conductive textile materials. Learn how they protect against charge dissipation and EMI, and discover their special applications as sensors, antennas, flexible heaters, and specialized apparel.
This book proposes a model of the global carbon cycle linking the Earth’s crust and the biosphere. It shows how periodic carbon dioxide injections from colliding tectonic plates control photosynthesis, explaining mass extinctions, “explosions of life,” and oil distribution.
For students of statistics, mathematics, and engineering, this book provides the concepts and methods of linear and integer programming. It presents formulations of diverse problems and solutions to numerical examples, making the subject matter easier to comprehend.
Energy and Humanity
This book describes human civilization from an energy perspective, showing how mastering energy catapulted our species to supremacy. It weaves a fascinating story from Stone Age tools to climate change, discussing the dark side and the future of renewables.
Complex oil and gas extraction is accompanied by grave failures like drill string buckling, resonant vibrations, and bit whirling. To analyze these phenomena, this book elaborates new mathematical models and numerical methods, offering new results for designers and specialists.
This book presents physical kinetics from a unique angle, deriving the Boltzmann equation from atomic motion using Landau’s elementary excitations. It details the kinetic theory of classical gas and plasma, the lifetime of phonons, and the features of superconductivity.
Intelligent Systems in Buildings
This book explores how intelligent systems can enhance the performance of the traditional courtyard house. It identifies key features of these homes and shows how knowledge of intelligent systems is crucial to fulfilling occupants’ needs.
With fossil fuels depleting, reliable and eco-friendly energy is essential. This book discusses renewable resources like wind and solar power, comparing them to non-renewable sources with data from case studies and exploring their advantages over conventional energy.
This book presents research on the mathematical modelling of the blast furnace process. It describes models for gas dynamics, heat transfer, and reduction, detailing an analytical study method that complements experimental work. Includes solutions to practical smelting problems.
This book presents research on the diffraction, radiation, and propagation of elastic waves, focusing on interactions between bodies and media interfaces. It details solutions to three-dimensional wave problems for isotropic and anisotropic bodies using Debye potentials.
This book graphically represents metallic and semi-metallic elements, allowing their nature to be interpreted. Each element is plotted in a diagram with thermal conductivity on the abscissa and the Young’s modulus on the ordinate.
Based on 13 years of empirical study, this unique book covers the application of satellite remote sensing in disaster management, with a focus on human factors. It provides an overview of the technology and its uses for practitioners and researchers in the field.