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Phipps, Claude |
No Wonder You Wonder! |
I10075 |
2016 |
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Phipps, Claude |
Laser Ablation and its Applications |
I05396 |
2007 |
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| Title | No Wonder You Wonder! : Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries |
| Author(s) | Phipps, Claude |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | XVIII, 331 p. 289 illus., 233 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book explores and explains scientific mysteries and principles, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and an abundance of illustrations. Chapters are short, but give an understanding of technology and science not available elsewhere. Questions include: ??? What holds a satellite up while it goes around the Earth? ??? Why is the sky (made out of clear air!) blue instead of green, or just black as night like the sky that high altitude jumper Felix Baumgartner saw? ??? How is laser light different from ???normal??? light? ??? Did Columbus really discover that the Earth is round? ??? Which one invention will assuredly survive our civilization? ??? Why can???t you travel back in time??? If you often feel embarrassed because you don???t have a clue about lasers, the difference between volts, amps and watts, or how jet planes really work ??? but you would like to understand the physical principles of our modern world, whether you???re a teen or a parent ??? this book is for you! To understand the basics of quantum mechanics, or of protons, neutrons and electrons, you don???t need algebra, calculus, or a lot of equations or technical buzzwords. Too many people have been soured on science by science teachers who have made simple concepts seem complex. This book is the antidote: all it requires is your curiosity.?? Advance praise for No Wonder You Wonder!:?? ???From beginning to end, and with laugh after laugh, I en joyed every single word of this remarkable book. Phipps is a hell of a good writer, and the kind of physics teacher that I would have loved as a young student. No Wonder You Wonder can be engrossing for anyone with a bit of curiosity, not just the scientific minded.??? ??? Christophe Bonnal, Chief Engineer, CNES (French Space Agency)?? ???No Wonder You Wonder is a fa ntastic book. Covering topics such as space, matter, and the energy within the universe, this book does an excellent job of clarifying these topics. It's a great read for young scientists and aspiring physicists.??? ??? August R., high school freshman |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319216805 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. PHYSICS
8. Popular Science in Physics
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| Title | Laser Ablation and its Applications |
| Author(s) | Phipps, Claude |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 2007. |
| Description | XX, 588 p. 300 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Laser ablation describes the interaction of intense optical fields with matter, in which atoms are selectively driven off by thermal or nonthermal mechanisms. The field of laser ablation physics is advancing so rapidly that its principal results are seen only in specialized journals and conferences. This is the first book that combines the most recent results in this rapidly advancing field with authoritative treatment of laser ablation and its applications, including the physics of high-power laser-matter interaction. Many practical applications exist, ranging from inertial confinement fusion to propulsion of aerostats for pollution monitoring to laser ignition of hypersonic engines to laser cleaning nanoscale contaminants in high-volume computer hard drive manufacture to direct observation of the electronic or dissociative states in atoms and molecules, to studying the properties of materials during 200kbar shocks developed in 200fs. Selecting topics which are representative of such a broad field is difficult. Laser Ablation and its Applications emphasizes the wide range of these topics rather than - as is so often the case in advanced science ??? focusing on one specialty or discipline. The book is divided into four sections: theory and modeling, ultrafast interactions, material processing and laser-matter interaction in novel regimes. The latter range from MALDI to ICF, SNOM???s and femtosecond nanosurgery to laser space propulsion. The book arose from the SPIE series of High Power Laser Ablation Symposia which began in 1998. It is intended for a graduate course in laser interactions with plasmas and materials, but it should be accessible to anyone with a graduate degree in physics or engineering. It is also intended as a major reference work to familiarize scientists just entering the field with laser ablation and its applications |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387304533 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATOMS
2. Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction
3. CONDENSED MATTER
4. CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ELECTRONICS
8. Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation
9. LASERS
10. Materials???Surfaces
11. MICROELECTRONICS
12. Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
13. PHOTONICS
14. PHYSICS
15. PLASMA (IONIZED GASES)
16. PLASMA PHYSICS
17. Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films
18. THIN FILMS
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