High-Energy Spectroscopic Astrophysics
After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge ...
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High-Energy-Density Physics
The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per ...
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV
This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad ...
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IFAE 2007 : Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie Italian Meeting on High Energy Physics Napoli, 11–13 April 2007
This book collects the Proceedings of the Workshop "Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE) 2007, Napoli, 11-13 April ...
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Ice, Rock, and Beauty : A Visual Tour of the New Solar System
Ice, Rock, and Beauty is a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance ...
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Il cielo sopra Roma : I luoghi dell’astronomia = The sky above Rome: The places of astronomy
Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...
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Inorganic Scintillators for Detector Systems
The development of new scintillators as components of modern detector systems is increasingly defined by the end user's ...
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Its ONLY Rocket Science : An Introduction in Plain English
"Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?" How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something ...
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Jets from Young Stars II : Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations
This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the Second JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Clues from High Angular ...
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La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science
An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...
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La musica del Big Bang : Come la radiazione cosmica di fondo ci ha svelato i segreti dell’Universo = The music of the Big Bang: How the cosmic background radiation revealed the secrets of the Universe to us
Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...
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Lasers and Nuclei
Lasers and Nuclei describes the generation of high-energy-particle radiation with high-intensity lasers and its application ...
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Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
presents theoretical physics with a breathtaking array of examples and anecdotes. Basdevant's style is clear and stimulating, ...
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Magnetohydrodynamics
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) studies the interaction between the flow of an electrically conducting fluid and magnetic fields. ...
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Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies
This is a proceedings book of the symposium "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies" held on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, ...
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Mercury
Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, is different in several respects from the other three terrestrial planets. In appearance, ...
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Modern Meteor Science
"During the past half century meteor research has evolved into a comprehensive multidisciplinary science … . New findings ...
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Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats
This book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, ...
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Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005
Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...
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Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources
Nearly one half of the point-like gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument of the late Compton satellite are still ...
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