Scientific Instruments category: 79 books
by David C. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book describes modern focused ion beam microscopes and techniques and how they can be used to aid materials metrology and as tools for the fabrication of devices that in turn are used in many other aspects of fundamental metrology. Beginning with a description of the currently available instruments...
by Richard Headstrom
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
With a simple microscope and this book, you can embark on 59 wonderful adventures in the natural world — make discoveries about the structures of numerous microscopic animals; find out what everyday objects and foods really look like at the cellular level; gain an understanding of how to prepare...
Present at the Creation
Discovering the Higgs Boson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense...
The Edge of Physics
A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A tour of the exotic and remote outposts where scientists seek answers to the great mysteries: “A thrilling ride around the globe and around the cosmos.” —Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here
In The Edge of Physics, a science writer journeys to the ends of the Earth—visiting...
by G. L. Squires
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Practical Physics demonstrates the purposive and critical approach that should be made to all experimental work in physics. It does not describe a systematic course of experiments, but is intended as a companion to any undergraduate course of practical work. The text is in three parts. The first deals...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 5: Applications of Superconducting Technology to Accelerators
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Over the past several decades major advances in accelerators have resulted from breakthroughs in accelerator science and accelerator technology. After the introduction of a new accelerator physics concept or the implementation of a new technology, a leap in accelerator performance followed. A well-known...
by Oliver Brüning, Stephen Myers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that...
Engines of Discovery
A Century of Particle Accelerators
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The first edition of Engines of Discovery celebrated in words, images and anecdotes the accelerators and their constructors that culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson. But even before the Higgs was discovered, before the champagne corks popped and while the television producers brushed up...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 8: Accelerator Applications in Energy and Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As accelerator science and technology progressed over the past several decades, the accelerators themselves have undergone major improvements in multiple performance factors: beam energy, beam power, and beam brightness. As a consequence, accelerators have found applications in a wide range of fields...
Mass Spectrometry
Techniques for Structural Characterization of Glycans
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Mass Spectrometry: Techniques for the Structural Characterization of Glycans presents new methods for conducting detailed carbohydrate qualitative analysis—arming analytical chemists, pharmaceutical scientists, and food scientists with a quick reference that will allow them to determine the structures...
by W Gai
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This proceedings volume, for the symposium in honor of Junwen Wang's 70th anniversary, is dedicated to his many important achievements in the field of accelerator physics.
It includes the discussions of recent advances and challenging problems in the field of high gradient accelerating structure...
by Alexander Wu Chao, Karl Hubert Mess, Maury Tigner;Frank Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded and updated new edition of the bestselling Handbook, containing more than 100 new articles, is aimed at the design and operation of modern particle accelerators. It is intended as a vade mecum for professional engineers and...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 7: Colliders
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The idea of colliding two particle beams to fully exploit the energy of accelerated particles was first proposed by Rolf Wideröe, who in 1943 applied for a patent on the collider concept and was awarded the patent in 1953. The first three colliders — AdA in Italy, CBX in the US, and VEP-1 in the...
by Harun Yahya
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
In 1999, the US National Academy of Sciences published a booklet called Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences. The aim of this booklet was to respond to the creation/evolution debate by bringing together "the most important proofs" of evolution.
The advertising...