Download or read book Time written by Bertrand Duplantier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Time, which poses some of the most challenging questions in science. Five articles, written by the Fields medalist C. Villani, the two outstanding theoretical physicists T. Damour and C. Jarzynski, the leading experimentalist C. Salomon, and the famous philosopher of science H. Price, describe recent developments related to the mathematical, physical, experimental, and philosophical facets of this fascinating concept. These articles are also highly pedagogical, as befits their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience. Highlights include a description of the manifold fundamental physical issues in play with time, in particular with the changes of perspective implied by Special and General Relativity; a mathematically precise discussion of irreversibility and entropy in the context of Boltzmann's and Vlasov's equations; a thorough survey of the recently developed “thermodynamics at the nanoscale,” the scale most relevant to biological physics; a description of the new cold atom space clock PHARAO to be installed in 2015 onboard the International Space Station, which will allow a test of Einstein's gravitational shift with a record precision of 2 × 10-6, and enable a test of the stability over time of the fundamental constants of physics, an issue first raised by Dirac in 1937; and last, but not least, a logical and clarifying philosophical discussion of ‘Time's arrow’, a phrase first coined by Eddington in 1928 in a challenge to physics to resolve the puzzle of the time-asymmetry of our universe, and echoed here in a short poème en prose by C. de Mitry. This book should be of broad general interest to physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers.
Download or read book From Microphysics to Macrophysics written by Roger Balian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular, often cited text returns in a softcover edition to provide a thorough introduction to statistical physics and thermodynamics, and to exhibit the universality of the chain of ideas leading from the laws of microphysics to the macroscopic behaviour of matter. A wide range of applications illustrates the concepts, and many exercises reinforce understanding. Volume I discusses the probabilistic description of quantum or classical systems, the Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, the conservation laws, and the interpretation of entropy as missing information. Thermodynamics and electromagnetism in matter are dealt with, as well as applications to dilute and condensed gases, and to phase transitions.
Download or read book Principes fondamentaux du g nie des proc d s et de la technologie chimique 2e d written by FAUDUET Henri and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Véritable traité de référence et guide pratique, Principes fondamentaux du génie des procédés et de la technologie chimique répertorie et analyse les principes de base incontournables pour réaliser des synthèses industrielles de produits chimiques. Il présente également les fondements de la qualité, de la sécurité et de l'environnement, notions indispensables à maîtriser avant de mettre en route et de conduire un procédé. Organisé en 3 parties, cet ouvrage rassemble toutes les notions théoriques et pratiques nécessaires aux chimistes avant d'industrialiser un procédé physique ou chimique. Il permet : d'assimiler les théories et concepts fondamentaux impliqués dans les procédés (grandeurs physicochimiques, bilans de matière et d'énergie, équilibres physiques et chimiques, etc.), illustrés par 54 exercices d'application. Un chapitre est également consacré à la mise en oeuvre des opérations chimiques en présentant les connaissances de base sur les réacteurs chimiques idéaux et industriels, sur la qualité, la sécurité et l'environnement, d'acquérir une méthodologie efficace pour la conduite de calculs de base à travers 84 exercices et problèmes de synthèse résolus issus de situations industrielles réelles et de la pratique professionnelle. De difficulté croissante et commentés pas à pas, ces exercices permettent de progresser et de vérifier ses acquis, de savoir interpréter et maîtriser les opérations physiques et chimiques les plus courantes. Totalement inédite, cette partie reposant sur des déterminations expérimentales présente des exemples de bilans effectués dans des opérations de séparation ou de synthèse chimique réalisées à l'échelon pilote (rappel des notions théoriques, description exhaustive du matériel utilisé et des opérations à effectuer, présentation et interprétation des résultats expérimentaux…). Enrichie de 26 annexes rassemblant les principales données utilisées et de deux index détaillés, cette nouvelle édition constitue un support indispensable pour les étudiants et enseignants en génie des procédés et en chimie industrielle des IUT, STS, licences et masters professionnels ainsi que des écoles d'ingénieurs. Il sera également utile aux ingénieurs et techniciens supérieurs travaillant dans les domaines production et R&D de l'industrie chimique.
Download or read book Probability Measures on Groups VIII written by Herbert Heyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of Life on the Earth written by A. I. Oparin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origin of Life on the Earth covers the proceedings of the First International Symposium of The Origin of Life on the Earth, held at Moscow on August 19-24, 1957. This symposium brings together numerous scientific studies on the evolutionary principles and the different stages in the evolutionary development of matter. This book is organized into seven parts encompassing 60 chapters. The first parts discuss evidence that on the formation of hydrocarbons and their derivatives on the surface of the Earth even before the emergence of life. The subsequent parts are devoted to the many asymmetrical syntheses under the influence of circularly-polarized ultraviolet light, by catalytic reactions occurring on the surface of quartz crystals, and spontaneously by slow crystallization from solutions. These topics are followed by reviews on the possible means of abiogenic formation of amino acids, porphyrins, protein-like polymers, polynucleotides and other high-molecular organic compounds. Considerable chapters explore the complete possibility of the primary formation of these compounds on the surface of the Earth even before life was present on it. Other general topics covered include nucleic acids, nucleoproteins and viruses. The last part considers general biochemical problems connected with the further development of metabolism. This book will be of value to astronomers, physicists, geologists, chemists, and biologists.
Download or read book Thermochemical properties of inorganic substances written by I. Barin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the practical application of thermochemistry to the development and control of tech nical processes, the data for as many substances as possible are needed in conjunction with rapid and simple methods of calculating equilibrium constants, heat balances and the EMF of galvanic cells. For these three types of calculation the following three ther modynamic functions are suitable: The Planck function, the enthalpy and the Gibbs free energy, which are here defined and tabulated as unambigous functions of temperature for pure substances. The first edition of the tables was published in 1973 under the title "Thermochemical Properties of Inorganic Substances". The present supplementary volume contains the data and functions for a further 800 inorganic substances. In addition, the data for about 250 substances from the first volume have been up-dated. These usually small corrections produce better consistency with the data from more recent publications. The comments of users and reviewers of the first volume have largely been concerned with the difference between the present thermodynamic functions and the system used in the JANAF tables, the somewhat unconventional handling of heat balances adopted here, the notation of cell reactions, the description of non-stoichiometric phases and the accuracy of the tabulated data. To answer these questions and criticims the theore tical concepts and the practical use of the tables are dealt with in more detail in the introduction, following the recommendation of some reviewers.
Download or read book Travel in Twentieth Century French and Francophone Cultures written by Charles Forsdick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first studies of twentieth-century travel literature in French, tracking the form from the colonial past to the postcolonial present. Whereas most recent explorations of travel literature have addressed English-language material, Forsdick's study complements these by presenting a body of material that has previously attracted little attention, ranging from conventional travel writing to other cultural phenomena (such as the Colonial Exposition of 1931) in which changing attitudes to travel are apparent. Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures explores the evolution of attitudes to cultural diversity, explaining how each generation seems simultaneously to foretell the collapse and reinvention of 'elsewhere'. It also follows the progressive renegotiation of understandings of travel (and travel literature) across the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of travel narratives from France's former colonies. The book suggests that an exclusive colonial understanding of travel as a practice defined along the lines of class, gender, and ethnicity has slowly been transformed so that travel has become an enabling figure - encapsulated in notions such as James Clifford's 'traveling cultures' - central to analyses of contemporary global culture. Engaging initially with Victor Segalen's early twentieth-century reflection on travel and exoticism and Albert Kahn's 'Archives de la Planète', Forsdick goes on to examine a series of interrelated texts and phenomena: early African travel narratives, inter-war ethnography, post-war accounts of Citroën 2CV journeys, the travel stories of immigrant workers, the work of Nicholas Bouvier and the Pour une littérature voyageuse movement, narratives of recent walking journeys, and contemporary Polynesian literature. In delineating a francophone space stretching far beyond metropolitan France itself, the book contributes to new understandings of French and Francophone Studies, and will also be of interest to those interested in issues of comparatism as well as colonial and postcolonial culture and identity.
Download or read book Modern Group Theoretical Methods in Physics written by J. Bertrand and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of a meeting that brought together friends and colleagues of Guy Rideau at the Université Denis Diderot (Paris, France) in January 1995. It contains original results as well as review papers covering important domains of mathematical physics, such as modern statistical mechanics, field theory, and quantum groups. The emphasis is on geometrical approaches. Several papers are devoted to the study of symmetry groups, including applications to nonlinear differential equations, and deformation of structures, in particular deformation-quantization and quantum groups. The richness of the field of mathematical physics is demonstrated with topics ranging from pure mathematics to up-to-date applications such as imaging and neuronal models. Audience: Researchers in mathematical physics.
Download or read book Vegetation dynamics in grasslans heathlands and mediterranean ligneous formations written by P. Poissonet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symposium of the Working Group for Succession Research on Permanent Plots, and Data-Processing of the International Society for Vegetation Sciences, Held at Montpellier, France, September 1980
Download or read book The Frontiers of the Other written by Gaetano Chiurazzi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the problem of translation has received renewed attention, but it has been mostly approached from a linguistic or ontological perspective. This book focuses on another aspect, i.e. the political and ethical implications of translation. Engaged in a debate, which encompasses various philosophers - such as Schleiermacher, Benjamin, Ortega y Gasset, Quine, Gadamer, Derrida, and Ricur - the book's contributions show that translation can be considered in an ambivalent way (which has a great ethical and political significance) as an attempt to bring the other back to one's own world or, vice versa, as an attempt to open up one's own world and to experience different cultures. Translation is in fact, inevitably, an experience of alterity. (Series: Philosophy - Language - Literature / Philosophie - Sprache - Literatur - Vol. 4)
Download or read book Le spectre des surfaces hyperboliques written by Nicolas Bergeron and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an introduction to the spectral theory of the Laplacian on compact or finite area hyperbolic surfaces. For some of these surfaces, called ĺlarithmetic hyperbolic surfacesĺl, the eigenfunctions are of arithmetic nature, and one may use analytic tools as well as powerful methods in number theory to study them. After an introduction to the hyperbolic geometry of surfaces, with a special emphasis on those of arithmetic type, and then an introduction to spectral analytic methods on the Laplace operator on these surfaces, the author develops the analogy between geometry (closed geodesics) and arithmetic (prime numbers) in proving the Selberg trace formula. Along with important number theoretic applications, the author exhibits applications of these tools to the spectral statistics of the Laplacian and the quantum unique ergodicity property. The latter refers to the arithmetic quantum unique ergodicity theorem, recently proved by Elon Lindenstrauss. The fruit of several graduate level courses at Orsay and Jussieu, The Spectrum of Hyperbolic Surfaces allows the reader to review an array of classical results and then to be led towards very active areas in modern mathematics.
Download or read book Fluid Dynamics Transactions written by W. Fiszdon and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluid Dynamics Transactions, Volume 1 is a compilation of papers presented at the Fifth Symposium on Fluid Dynamics held in Poland from August 26 to September 2, 1961. The symposium provided a forum for discussing developments in fluid dynamics based on the following topics: mathematical methods, hypersonic flow, rarefied gas dynamics, and magnetohydrodynamics. This volume is comprised of 26 chapters and begins by presenting equations for gas dynamics and highlighting some of applications of the general results. The discussion then turns to Cauchy's problem for the compressible flow of the simple wave type; the use of exact numerical methods for the solution of boundary layer problems; and the effect of surface catalytic efficiency on stagnation point heat transfer. A geometric method of classifying solutions of gas dynamics using certain space and the time-space Lie transformation groups is described. Subsequent chapters explore supersonic flow past blunt bodies; application of the Monte Carlo method to the analysis of rarefied gas flows; and fluid-fluid displacement in a porous medium. This book will be a useful resource for engineers and other scientists interested in fluid dynamics.
Download or read book Energie written by André Gardel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energie
Download or read book coulements et r actions chimiques 2 Applications aux m langes homog nes r actifs written by PRUD'HOMME Roger and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les écoulements avec réactions chimiques peuvent intervenir dans des domaines variés tels que la combustion, le génie des procédés, l’aéronautique, l’environnement atmosphérique et aquatique. Les exemples d’application choisis dans ce volume portent principalement sur les mélanges réactifs homogènes susceptibles d’intervenir dans les propulseurs, en génie des procédés et en combustion : - propagation du son et écoulements monodimensionnels non diffusifs dans les tuyères pouvant comporter des déséquilibres des modes internes d’énergie des molécules ; - réacteurs chimiques idéaux, stabilisation de leurs points de fonctionnement stationnaires dans le cas homogène à mélange parfait et instruments classiques d’analyse expérimentale et théorique tels les bilans de population, la distribution des temps de séjour et celle des âges ; - flammes laminaires et turbulentes en séparant bien celles qui sont prémélangées de celles qui ne le sont pas et qui ne relèvent pas des mêmes mécanismes, mais qui interviennent conjointement dans le cas des flammes triples. Écoulements et réactions chimiques 2 apporte également des précisions sur l’analyse dimensionnelle, la thermodynamique statistique avec couplage entre modes internes d’énergie et réactions chimiques, l’apparition et la dissipation de la turbulence fluide ainsi que son traitement statistique, les bifurcations, les flammes en milieu confiné et de diffusion.
Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quantum Entropy and Its Use written by M. Ohya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous fundamental properties of quantum information measurement are developed, including the von Neumann entropy of a statistical operator and its limiting normalized version, the entropy rate. Use of quantum-entropy quantities is made in perturbation theory, central limit theorems, thermodynamics of spin systems, entropic uncertainty relations, and optical communication. This new softcover corrected reprint contains summaries of recent developments added to the ends of the chapters.
