Bøger i Topics in Current Physics serien

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As has been true throughout the history of science with other fields of interest whose un derlying disciplinary structure was either unclear or insufficiently well developed to contribute effectively to those fields, "aerosol science" has.

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Cooperative means that the overall behavior is quite different from the superposition of the effects arising from single atoms and is completely unpredictable if one neglects the coup ling between the atoms induced by their common electromagnetic field.

With the advent of X-ray diffraction and crystal structure determination in 1912 researchers in physics and chemistry began investigating the problem of crystal co hesion, i. The advent of digital computers brought along great advances in the detailed understanding of ionic crystals, molecular crystals, and metals.

It is now ten years since it was first convincingly shown that below 1 K the ther mal conductivity and the heat capacity of amorphous solids behave in a way which is strikingly different to that of crystalline solids.

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With contributions by numerous experts

When I was a student, in the early fifties, the properties of gratings were generally explained according to the scalar theory of optics. Indeed those grating properties, we can call optical properties, were taught'in a satisfac tory manner and the students were able to clearly understand the diffraction and dispersion of light by gratings.

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With contributions by numerous experts

With contributions by numerous experts

There are numerous pertinent and systematic tie-ins between project-oriented aerosol work and basic physical investigations which are themselves quite closely akin to much classical and current work in physical science.

Monte Carlo computer simulations are now a standard tool in scientific fields such as condensed-matter physics, including surface-physics and applied-physics problems (metallurgy, diffusion, and segregation, etc.

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Synchrotron radiation as a spectroscopic research tool has undergone a most inter esting and astonishing historical development and has now come to the stage of an exciting boom. The machines which produce synchrotron radiation were built and de veloped exclusively for other purposes in the past, namely high-energy physics.

This Topics volume is devoted to a study of sound propagation in the ocean. In addition to the propagation in the interior of the ocean, sound can propagate into and back out of the ocean bottom as well as scatter from the ocean surface.

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With contributions by numerous experts

With contributions by numerous experts

With contributions by numerous experts

The development of surface physics and surface chemistry as a science is closely related to the technical development of a number of methods involving electrons either as an excitation source or as an emitted particle carrying characteristic information.

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With contributions by numerous experts

Structural and dynamical properties of surfaces are of considerable importance for the elucidation of surface phenomena. Also, the electronic surface states of electronic device materials (e.g., Schottky barrier diodes and metal-insulator-semiconductor devices) depend critically on the structure of the semiconductor surface and the overlayers.

With contributions by Black, J. E.; Blanckenhagen, P. v.; Ibach, H.; Lehwald, S.; Marks, L. D. Rahman; T. S.;Rieder, K. H.; Rocca, M.; Schommers, W.; Varelas, C.

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