Bøger af S. Chandrasekhar

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This study surveys the level, causes, and course of infant mortality in India during the last seventy years. Besides this historical survey, the book examines the implications of high and low infant mortality on the country's major problems of population growth and the current population policy designed to reduce the birth rate through family planning.

A history of the world birth control movement and how it helped the women's movement. It includes the writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control, an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, and two of Besant's pamphlets on birth control.

Deals with the problem of international tensions arising from demographic and fertility differences, with special reference to such thickly populated Asian countries as China, Japan and India.

This book is based on two lectures given in Cambridge by Professor Chandrasckhar to mark the centenary of the birth of Arthur Stanley Eddington. The text describes Eddington's major contributions to astrophysics and to general relativity. The approach is not technical, although it will mainly be of interest to professionals in astronomy, applied mathematics and the history of modern astronomy.

Describes the main aspects of chirality in liquid crystals, and points out some of the open questions of current research. The chapters review the highlights of the important topics and questions.

A systematic treatment of the physics of thermotropic liquid crystals, describing their structure, thermodynamical, optical and mechanical properties, behaviour under external fields, as well as the principles underlying their applications in display technology and thermography.