Author: Yimei Zhu
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: materials, magnetic, characterizing, techniques, modern
Number of Pages: 620
Published: 2005-04-20
List price: $329.00
ISBN-10: 1402080077
ISBN-13: 9781402080074

Modern Techniques for Characterizing Magnetic Materials provides an extensive overview of novel characterization tools for magnetic materials including neutron, photon and electron scatterings and other microscopy techniques by world-renowned scientists. This interdisciplinary reference describes all available techniques to characterize and to understand magnetic materials, techniques that cover a wide range of length scales and belong to different scientific communities. The diverse contributions enhance cross-discipline communication, while also identifying both the drawbacks and advantages

Author: J. Moran
Publisher: Awwarf
Keywords: report, awwarf, recharge, groundwater, characterizing
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $216.00
ISBN-10: 1843398494
ISBN-13: 9781843398493

The purpose of the project was to demonstrate the value of age-dating and isotopic tracers in characterizing the flow dynamics and water quality changes in a complex groundwater domain that includes high capacity municipal pumping wells, a geologic fault, and artificial recharge facilities with deep lake-like recharge ponds. Characterizing water quality changes during recharge and transport in groundwater was also an objective of this investigation. Below (west of) the Hayward Fault (BHF), water ages correlated well with aquifer layer sequence. BHF tracers did not reach the BHF wellfield wit

Author: J. M. Honig
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: chemical, processes, physical, characterizing, second, principles, thermodynamics
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1999-06-21
List price: $137.00
ISBN-10: 0123550459
ISBN-13: 9780123550453

This book provides a concise overview of thermodynamics, and is written in a manner which makes the difficult subject matter understandable. Thermodynamics is systematic in its presentation and covers many subjects that are generally not dealt with in competing books such as: Carathéodory’s approach to the Second Law, the general theory of phase transitions, the origin of phase diagrams, the treatment of matter subjected to a variety of external fields, and the subject of irreversible thermodynamics.The book provides a first-principles, postulational, self-contained description of phy

Author: J.M. Honig
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: chemical, processes, physical, characterizing, third, principles, thermodynamics
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2007-05-24
List price: $132.00
ISBN-10: 0123738776
ISBN-13: 9780123738776

Thermodynamics is a self-contained analysis of physical and chemical processes, based on classical thermodynamic principles. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental principles, with a conbination of theory and practice, and demonstrating their application to a variety of disciplines. Included in this work are new approaches to irreversible processes, electromagnetic effects, adsorption phenomena, self-assembly, the origin of phase diagrams, critical phenomena, and Carathéodory’s treatment of the second law. This book will appeal to graduate students and professional chemists and physici

Author:
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keywords: documenting, exposures, compass, series, characterizing, detecting, protect, health, deployed, forces, strategies
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2000
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309068754
ISBN-13: 9780309068758

Authors:William H. Schmidt, W.H. Schmidt,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: science, teaching, six, mathematics, investigation, pedagogical, flow, characterizing
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-09-30
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0792342739
ISBN-13: 9780792342731

Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology. The work produced portraits of mathematics and science education that were dramatically different for each of the countries involved: France, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. To explain these differences, it is proposed that the interaction of curriculum and pedagogy is culturally unique and yields classroom learning experiences that are qualitatively different from cou

Author: Committee on Estimating and Communicating Uncertai
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: using, weather, climate, forecasts, decisions, uncertainty, forecast, characterizing, communicating, completing
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $31.75
ISBN-10: 0309102553
ISBN-13: 9780309102551

Uncertainty is a fundamental characteristic of weather, seasonal climate, and hydrological prediction, and no forecast is complete without a description of its uncertainty. Effective communication of uncertainty helps people better understand the likelihood of a particular event and improves their ability to make decisions based on the forecast. Nonetheless, for decades, users of these forecasts have been conditioned to receive incomplete information about uncertainty. They have become used to single-valued (deterministic) forecasts (e.g., ’the high temperature will be 70 degrees Farenhe