An accessible and pedagogical introduction to the subject, this book provides a detailed and self-contained exposition of the main concepts of string theory. The first part deals with the basic concepts, reviewing special relativity and electromagnetism while introducing the concept of extra dimensions.... (More)
This is the second volume of the series entitled "Physics at the Turn of the Millennium." This book contains five chapters. The first chapter is devoted to modern concepts pertaining to the nature of fundamental interactions. The second chapter describes some novel objects of atomic physics that attract... (More)
This is the first volume of the series entitled "Physics at the Turn of the Millennium." This book contains three chapters. The first chapter deals with the fundamentals of a new interdisciplinary scientific direction, physics of open systems, whose origin was associated with the work of outstanding... (More)
This is the third volume of the series entitled "Physics at the Turn of the Millennium." This book contains two chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the theoretical and experimental fundamentals of a new scientific direction that has formed at the boundary of several disciplines --- the field of... (More)
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a... (More)
The book describes spectral luminescent properties of a large group of minerals. This is the first publication of the kind that has no analogues in the scientific literature on the subject.
Part I presents classification of luminescent substances in nature at several systematic levels: global luminescent... (More)
The book by Dr. Nikolai Vekshin (Head researcher in the Institute of Cell Biophysics of Russian Acad. Sci.) is the English translation (with additions and corrections) of his book "Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Biopolymers", published recently in Russian. It is a brief course in fluorescence spectroscopy... (More)
The book presents a detailed description of the space-time model as a causal virtual-field physical structure. Under certain conditions this model leads to fixation of the symmetry group and field representations and also to the representation of reversible local times in the world of virtual events... (More)
The book is divided into four sections. The first section duscusses the three methods to fabricate biaxially textured substrates, upon which, epitaxial YBCO or other HTS materials can be deposited to realize a single-crystal-like HTS wire. The second section includes chapters on various methods of HTS... (More)
Veter, voda i Solntse sposobni udovletvorit' vse potrebnosti chelovechestva v elektroenergii, chto pozvolit otkazat'sya ot ispol'zovaniya iskopaemogo topliva
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