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Quantum Plasmadynamics
Magnetized Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Quantum Plasmadynamics is a synthesis of the kinetic theory of plasmas and quantum electrodynamics (QED). In this volume, the approach applied to unmagnetized plasmas in volume 1 is generalized to magnetized plasmas. First, a covariant version of nonquantum kinetic theory is formulated for single-particle...
Astronomy of the Milky Way
The Observer’s Guide to the Northern Sky
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This is the first of a two-volume set that deal with the entire Milky Way. This first volume looks at what can be seen predominantly from the Northern Skies. In addition to the descriptive text, there are many star charts and maps, as well as the latest up-to-date images made by observatories around the world and in space, as well as images taken by amateur astronomers.
Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy
With Comprehensive Development of the Physical Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
This book presents experiments which will teach physics relevant to astronomy. The astronomer, as instructor, frequently faces this need when his college or university has no astronomy department and any astronomy course is taught in the physics department. The physicist, as instructor, will find...
by Uğur Camcı, İbrahim Semiz
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
This volume showcases selected recent work presented at the 13th Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics held in Antalya, Turkey in 2010. The conference was dedicated to the memory of Faheem Hussain, one of the initiators of the Regional Conference series, and one of the organizers of the 12th...
Stellar Pulsations
Impact of New Instrumentation and New Insights
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Analyses of photometric time series obtained from the MOST, CoRoT and Kepler space missions were presented at the 20th conference on Stellar Pulsations (Granada, September 2011). These results are leading to a re-appraisal of our views on stellar pulsation in some stars and posing some new and unexpected...
Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later
Proceedings of Symposium 2 of JENAM 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
The publication of the morphology - density relation by Alan Dressler in 1980 brought into the limelight the role played by environment in the formation and evolution of galaxies. The symposium Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later, was organised with the purpose of establishing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
All stars are born in groups. The origin of these groups has long been a key question in astronomy, one that interests researchers in star formation, the interstellar medium, and cosmology. This volume summarizes current progress in the field, and includes contributions from both theorists and observers....
Fifty Years of Quasars
From Early Observations and Ideas to Future Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The 50th anniversary of the discovery of quasars in 1963 presents an interesting opportunity to ask questions about the current state of quasar research. Formatted as a series of interviews with noted researchers in the field, each of them asked to address a specific set of questions covering topics...
by Dylan Clearfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
There still exists the remains of many lost worlds from the past on Mars. Modern types of cities, sites of ceremonial stone circles, partially intact highway systems and the remains of a crashed space ship of alien origin scattered amidst the rocky ground are some of the images highlighted in this...
by Islam atef
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
I love the Universe and I know almost everything about it and I love to do hard calculations, mostly because I like Omnipotence and Infinity and I am still trying to work out Infinity x Infinity and Omnipotence of beyond Infinity and beyond Omnipotence itself in impossible, incomprehensible infinity...
Penetration
The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Ingo Swann -- renowned psi researcher -- reveals a long-held secret series of experiences with a "deep black" agency whose apparent charter was simple: UFOs and extraterrestrials on the moon and worries about ET telepathic/mind control powers. The agency was so secret that it had no paper...
by Gerardo Herrera Corral
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
No habría materia, y sus componentes más elementales aún estarían dispersos por el vasto espacio, de no ser por el llamado "bosón de Higgs", partícula que hasta hace poco era sólo una conjetura teórica. La comprobación experimental de su existencia es por ello uno de los principales...
Comets in the 21st Century
A Personal Guide to Experiencing the Next Great Comet!
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Have you ever seen a comet? It is a marvelous experience, one that all humans can share, that spawns a deep yearning to understand the spectacle.
Have you ever wondered what comets are and why astronomers spend so much time studying them? Now, a comet expert and an astronomical historian have...
Space Oddities
Our Strange Attempts to Explain the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are …’ Are you a giant Nazi iceberg? On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union’s famous satellite Sputnik was launched into orbit, and the Space Age began. Or did it? Sputnik may have marked the beginning of humanity’s physical exploration...