How Mechanics Shaped The Modern World
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How Mechanics Shaped The Modern World
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Author : David H. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-28
How Mechanics Shaped The Modern World written by David H. Allen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This updated and augmented second edition covers the history of mechanics in such a way as to explain how this all-important discipline shaped our world. Like the first edition, Dr. Allen presents the material in an engaging, accessible manner, with many historic insights and thorough explanations of attending concepts. The text retains its coverage of classical mechanics, essentially Newtonian mechanics, and adds chapters on three additional topics that go well beyond classical mechanics: relativity, quantum/nanomechanics, and biomechanics.
Approximation Methods In Science And Engineering
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Author : Reza N. Jazar
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-03-13
Approximation Methods In Science And Engineering written by Reza N. Jazar and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-13 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Approximation Methods in Engineering and Science covers fundamental and advanced topics in three areas: Dimensional Analysis, Continued Fractions, and Stability Analysis of the Mathieu Differential Equation. Throughout the book, a strong emphasis is given to concepts and methods used in everyday calculations. Dimensional analysis is a crucial need for every engineer and scientist to be able to do experiments on scaled models and use the results in real world applications. Knowing that most nonlinear equations have no analytic solution, the power series solution is assumed to be the first approach to derive an approximate solution. However, this book will show the advantages of continued fractions and provides a systematic method to develop better approximate solutions in continued fractions. It also shows the importance of determining stability chart of the Mathieu equation and reviews and compares several approximate methods for that. The book provides the energy-rate method to study the stability of parametric differential equations that generates much better approximate solutions.
New Critical Thinking
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Author : Sean Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-12-15
New Critical Thinking written by Sean Wilson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Political Science categories.
Ludwig Wittgenstein changed everything. To understand how, we need to understand what he did to the subject of critical reasoning. Wittgenstein didn’t leave us “philosophy”; he left a pathway for a more perspicuous intellect. This was caused by a psychological condition that made him meticulous and hypersensitive. He could abnormally perceive three natural phenomena: (a) the social traits implicated in word use; (b) the task-functions signified in communication; and (c) the pictures that flash before the mind’s eye. With this unique acuity, he showed us how post-analytic thinking was to occur. And this discovery changes everything. It revolutionizes how we must argue with one another and what we believe is “true.” Instead of focusing primarily upon premises or facts, we must point people to how their intellect behaves during a speech act—something called “therapy.” And this has radical implications for analysis, conceptual investigation, value judgments, political ideology, ethics and even religion. This book is both an explanation of, and a blueprint for, the new critical thinking. Written for both a lay and special audience, and for all fields of study, it shows what Wittgenstein invented and how it affects us all.
Precious Metal
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Author : Peter H. Christensen
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Precious Metal written by Peter H. Christensen and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with Architecture categories.
With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel’s incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world. Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist material—not for the heroic structural innovations it facilitated but for a deeper understanding of the role it played in the steady change of the earth. Focusing on the formative years of the architectural steel economy and on the corporate history of German steel titans Krupp and Thyssen, Christensen investigates the ecological interrelationship of artificial and natural habitats, mediated by steel. He traces steel through six distinct phases: birth, formation, display, dispersal, construction, and return. By following the life of steel from the collection of raw minerals to the distribution and disposal of finished products, Christensen challenges the traditional narrative that steel was simply the primary material responsible for architectural modernism. Based on the premise that building materials are as much a part of the natural world as they are of a building, this groundbreaking book rewrites an important chapter of architectural history. It will be welcomed by specialists in architectural history, nineteenth-century studies, environmental history, German studies, modernist studies, and the Anthropocene.
Computer Vision Eccv 2024
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Author : Aleš Leonardis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-11-20
Computer Vision Eccv 2024 written by Aleš Leonardis and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-20 with Computers categories.
The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15059 upto 15147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024, held in Milan, Italy, during September 29–October 4, 2024. The 2387 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 8585 submissions. They deal with topics such as Computer vision, Machine learning, Deep neural networks, Reinforcement learning, Object recognition, Image classification, Image processing, Object detection, Semantic segmentation, Human pose estimation, 3D reconstruction, Stereo vision, Computational photography, Neural networks, Image coding, Image reconstruction and Motion estimation.
The Triumph Of Numbers How Counting Shaped Modern Life
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Author : I. Bernard Cohen
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2006-07-17
The Triumph Of Numbers How Counting Shaped Modern Life written by I. Bernard Cohen and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-17 with Mathematics categories.
From the pyramids to mortality tables, Galileo to Florence Nightingale, a vibrant history of numbers and the birth of statistics. The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, in marketing, and in many other aspects of daily life. Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity—taxes, head counts for military service—but not until the Scientific Revolution in the twelfth century did social numbers such as births, deaths, and marriages begin to be analyzed. Cohen shines a new light on familiar figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Dickens; and he reveals Florence Nightingale to be a passionate statistician. Cohen has left us with an engaging and accessible history of numbers, an appreciation of the essential nature of statistics.
Modeling And Design Of Flexible Pavements And Materials
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Author : Dallas N. Little
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Modeling And Design Of Flexible Pavements And Materials written by Dallas N. Little and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This textbook lays out the state of the art for modeling of asphalt concrete as the major structural component of flexible pavements. The text adopts a pedagogy in which a scientific approach, based on materials science and continuum mechanics, predicts the performance of any configuration of flexible roadways subjected to cyclic loadings. The authors incorporate state-of the-art computational mechanics to predict the evolution of material properties, stresses and strains, and roadway deterioration. Designed specifically for both students and practitioners, the book presents fundamentally complex concepts in a clear and concise way that aids the roadway design community to assimilate the tools for designing sustainable roadways using both traditional and innovative technologies.
Alexandria Antiqua A Topographical Catalogue And Reconstruction
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Author : Amr Abdo
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2022-01-20
Alexandria Antiqua A Topographical Catalogue And Reconstruction written by Amr Abdo and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-20 with History categories.
Alexandria Antiqua aims to catalogue the archaeological sites of Alexandria, from the records of the French Expedition (1798-99) to the present day, and to infer the urban layout and cityscape at the time of its foundation (4th century BC), and then through the successive changes which took place up to the Arab conquest (7th century AD).
Anthrozoology
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Author : Michael Charles Tobias
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-20
Anthrozoology written by Michael Charles Tobias and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-20 with Nature categories.
This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through lean and elegant text, readers will learn that human interconnections with other species and ecosystems are severely endangered precisely because we lack - by our evolutionary self-confidence - the very coherence that is everywhere around us abundantly demonstrated. What our species has deemed to be superior is, according to Tobias and Morrison, the cumulative result of a tragically tenuous argument predicated on the brink of our species’ self-destruction, giving rise to a most unique proposition: We either recognize the miracle of other sentient intelligence, sophistication, and genius, or risk enshrining the shortest lived epitaph of any known vertebrate in earth’s 4.1 billion years of life. Tobias and Morrison draw on 45 years of research in fields ranging from ecological anthropology, animal protection and comparative ethics to literature and spirituality - and beyond. They deploy research in animal and plant behavior, biocultural heritage contexts from every continent and they bring to bear a deeply metaphysical array of perspectives that set this book apart from any other. The book departs from most work in such fields as animal rights, ecological aesthetics, comparative ethology or traditional animal and plant behaviorist work, and yet it speaks to readers with an interest in those fields. A deeply provocative book of philosophical premises and hypotheses from two of the world’s most influential ecological philosophers, this text is likely to stir uneasiness and debate for many decades to come.
The Geometry Of Choice
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Author : Marek Kuźniak
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-08-19
The Geometry Of Choice written by Marek Kuźniak and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decisionmaking process, using the metaphor of CHOICE as CUBE. The areas of key interest are language, culture, and education as forms of social organization. This book addresses issues relevant to a number of fields, including social epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, philosophy, culture and education studies, and will be of interest to readers in these and related disciplines.