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The pioneer astronauts who took America into space tell their personal stories about the challenges they faced -- their fears, joys, friendships, and successes.

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Optics of the Moon presents methods for interpreting optics of surfaces on the Moon with complicated structures. For example, the book illustrates how phase-ratio techniques can lead to the detection of surface structure anomalies, describes polarimetric studies of the lunar surface and their use, and addresses many other questions relating to the regolith-like surfaces of the Moon, such as why the Moon looks like a ball at a large phase angle and like a disk in full moon, why the lunar surface has slight color variations, and why at large phase angles its polarization degree closely correlates with albedo.

Munson, Young, and Okiishi's Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics is intended for undergraduate engineering students for use in a first course on fluid mechanics. Building on the well-established principles of fluid mechanics, the book offers improved and evolved academic treatment of the subject. Each important concept or notion is considered in terms of simple and easy-to-understand circumstances before more complicated features are introduced. The presentation of material allows for the gradual development of student confidence in fluid mechanics problem solving. This International Adaptation of the book comes with some new topics and updates on concepts that clarify, enhance, and expand certain ideas and concepts. The new examples and problems build upon the understanding of engineering applications of fluid mechanics and the edition has been completely updated to use SI units.

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Kittel's Introduction to Solid State Physics, Global Edition, has been the standard solid state physics text for physics majors since the publication of its first edition over 60 years ago. The emphasis in the book has always been on physics rather than formal mathematics. This book is written with the goal that it is accessible to undergraduate students and consistently teachable. With each new edition, the author has attempted to add important new developments in the field without impacting its inherent content coverage. This Global Edition offers the advantage of expanded end-of-chapter problem sets.

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This second book on Unity Root Matrix Theory extends its original three-dimensional formulation, as given in the first book, to an arbitrary number of higher dimensions. Unity Root Matrix Theory is formulated with strong adherence to concepts in mathematical physics and it is thought it may provide a discrete formulation of physical phenomena at the Planck level and upward. Consequently, it is essential that the theory incorporates the geometric dimensionality present in established physical theories. In particular, it must naturally embody the four-dimensional spacetime of Special Relativity, the five dimensions of Kaluza-Klein theory, and the eleven or more dimensions of Grand Unified Theories such as String Theory. Not only has an n-dimensional extension of Unity Root Matrix Theory successfully been achieved, whilst retaining all the three-dimensional mathematical and physical properties detailed in the first book, but a complete n-dimensional solution has been obtained which exhibits the geometric property of compactification, or dimensional reduction. This solution shows that dimensional shrinkage of higher dimensions may occur over long evolutionary timescales. The emergence of compactification and other physical phenomena gives further confidence that n-dimensional Unity Root Matrix Theory may, indeed, offer a discrete formulation of Physics starting at its most elemental level.

Developed on surprisingly simple but fundamental concepts, it provides a rich mathematical and physical structure, justifying it as a subject to be studied in its own right by physicists and mathematicians alike. Ultimately, it is thought that unity root matrix theory may provide an alternative reformulation of some fundamental concepts in physics and an integer-based escape from the current, unification impasse.

This book employs nonequilibrium quantum transport, based on the use of mixed Hilbert space representations and real time quantum superfield transport theory, to explain various topological phases of systems with entangled chiral degrees of freedom. It presents an entirely new perspective on topological systems, entanglement-induced localization and delocalization, integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE), fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), and its respective spectral zones in the Hofstadter butterfly spectrum. A simple and powerful, intuitive, and wide-ranging perspective on chiral transport dynamics.

Science is at a cross-roads. For several decades, the Standard Model of particle physics has managed to fit vast amounts of particle scattering data remarkably well, but many questions remain. During those decades, some sophisticated theoretical hypotheses such as string theory, quantum gravity, and quantum cosmology have been proposed and studied intensively, in an effort to break the log-jam of the Standard Model. None of those hypotheses have succeeded to date. Of greater concern is the increasing tendency by some practitioners in those fields to downplay the empirical principles of science.In response, this book is a restatement of those principles, covering numerous aspects of observation. A particular focus is on contextuality versus realism, the two fundamentally contrasting ideologies that underpin modern physics.

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