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Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid as large as Mt. Everest hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula at a speed ten tim......more
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This book aims to provide the university-level student and educator with a convenient means for testing depth of knowled......more
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Progress in Optics, Volume 70 is the latest release in a yearly publication that provides in-depth reviews on topics in ......more
The inside story of how nuclear energy--long considered scary, controversial, and even apocalyptic--has become the hot t......more
Provides in-depth knowledge of the physics of radiative transfer In Analytical Methods in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer......more
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This book, the 15th of 15 related monographs on Cubic Dynamic Systems, discusses crossing and product cubic systems with......more
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Nuclear structure has two extreme regimes: one where the nuclear structure is collective and driven by all the protons a......more
The topics of nuclear physics, particle physics and cosmology are closely connected. As the second volume of a two-volum......more
Three hundred feet below the French-Swiss border, a doughnut-shaped tunnel seventeen miles around is the home of the Lar......more
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In autumn of 1949, Enrico Fermi returned to Italy after an eleven-year absence to deliver nine lectures, six in Rome and......more
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This book explores the physics of fast ions and fast ion- driven instabilities. It also describes modern theory of near-......more
As a complex self-bound quantum many-body system, atomic nuclei exhibit various shapes due to significant long-range mul......more
This updated edition delves into the intricate challenges of high-energy confinement in tokamaks and stellarators, explo......more
Joseph H Hamilton is a world-leading nuclear physicist and the Landon C Garland Distinguished Professor of Physics at Va......more
Lasers are employed throughout science and technology, in fundamental research in chemistry, physics and engineering, th......more
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As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-......more
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The first volume is presented in two parts, covering radiation physics and natural radiation exposure. It first explor......more
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This thesis describes how the rich internal degrees of freedom of molecules can be exploited to construct the first "clo......more