Author: Physics Survey Overview CommitteeBoard on Physics
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: physics, era, new, series, overview
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-06-15
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0309073421
ISBN-13: 9780309073424

Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rapidly. Accomplishments have led us into the information age and fueled broad technological and economic development. The pace of discovery is quickening and stronger links with other fields such as the biological sciences are being developed. The intellectual reach has never been greater, and the questions being asked are more ambitious than ever before. "Physics in a New Era" is the final report of the NRC’s six-volume decadal physics surve

Author: Physics Survey CommitteeBoard on Physics and Astr
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, overview
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0309035813
ISBN-13: 9780309035811

Author: Elementary-Particle Physics Panel Physics Survey
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, elementary, particle
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309035767
ISBN-13: 9780309035767

A book in a series on Physics in a New Era, that contains an assessment & recommendation about the role that the U.S. should play in the research of element-particle physics. Paper.Book DescriptionPart of the Physics in a New Era series of assessments of the various branches of the field, Elementary-Particle Physics reviews progress in the field over the past 10 years and recommends actions needed to address the key questions that remain unanswered. It explains in simple terms the present picture of how matter is constructed. As physicists have probed ever deeper into the structure of matter,

Authors:Nuclear Physics Panel, Physics Survey Committee, B
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, nuclear
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $64.75
ISBN-10: 0309035473
ISBN-13: 9780309035477

Illustrated. Overview of twentieth century nuclear physics. Topics include an introduction to Nuclear Physics, Major advances, the impact of nuclear physics, frontiers (eg the quark-gluon plasma), etc. Bibliography, Glossary, Index.

Author: Panel on Condensed-Matter PhysicsPhysics Survey C
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: physics, series, 1990s, condensed, matter
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $84.75
ISBN-10: 0309035775
ISBN-13: 9780309035774

Author: Abigail Thrush BSc(Physics) MSc(Medical Physics)
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: ultrasound, vascular
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $85.95
ISBN-10: 0443069182
ISBN-13: 9780443069185

This book provides an understanding of the underlying scientific principles in the production of B-mode and Colour Flow imaging and Spectral Doppler sonograms. A basic description of common vascular diseases is given along with a practical guide as to how ultrasound is used to detect and quantify the disease. Possible treatments of common vascular diseases and disorders are outlined. Ultrasound is often used in post-treatment assessment and this is also discussed. The role of ultrasound in the formation and follow-up of haemodialysis access is a growing field and is covered in detail.Practical

Author: Panel on the Physics of Plasmas and FluidsPhysics
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: series, 1990s, physics, fluids, plasmas
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 0309035481
ISBN-13: 9780309035484