Clearly written treament elucidates fundamental concepts and demonstrates their plausibility and usefulness. Language is informal, examples are vivid and lively, and the perspectivie is fresh. Based on lectures delivered to engineering students, this work will also be valued by scientists, engineers, technicians, businessmen, anyone facing energy challenges of the future.

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Augmented Materials and Smart Objects investigates the issues required to ensure technology platforms capable of being seamlessly integrated into everyday objects. In particular, it deals with the requirements for integrated computation and MEMs sensors, system-in-a-package solutions, and multi-chip modules. On top of this, the publication’s 500 pages cover the impact of the trend towards embedded microelectronic electronics sub-systems, novel assembly techniques for autonomous MEMs sensors, and practical performance issues that are key to the AmI concept.

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Viscoelasticity (or rheology) is a highly mathematical subject, interfacing several disciplines, from applied mathematics to mechanics and engineering. Other books on rheology are usually comprehensive to such a degree that students find it hard to isolate the important physical principles and develop good analytical skills for solving useful engineering problems.

Numerous practical problems connected to triboelectric phenomena remain unsolved in both the fabrication and behavior of polymer threads and fabrics in a variety of industrial articles. Using the results of unique experiments carried out in the countries of the former Soviet Union, this volume fills a gap in the science of tribology, presenting fundamental information on the nature of physical and chemical processes governing and accompanying tribodeformation and tribodisintegration of polymers. Details on electrophysical phenomena such as contact electrification and emergence of the electret state in polymer materials are also provided.

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty ... such as only the greatest art can show."
—Bertrand Russell

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Was ist Reibung und wie funktioniert ein Flaschenzug? Der komplett neu bearbeitete Band gibt einen Überblick über die Grundlagen dieses wichtigen Bereichs der Physik. Ein ausführliches Kapitel widmet sich Hebeln, Flaschenzügen, Schrauben und Rollen und ihrer Bauweise und Funktion. Sonderseiten zeigen Energiequellen aus Luft und Wasser auf. Grundgesetze der Mechanik werden anhand spannender Experimente etwa wie Wasser bergaufwärts fließt kindgerecht erläutert.

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Calculus is the greatest mathematical breakthrough since the pioneering discoveries of the ancient Greeks. Without it, we wouldn't have spaceflight, skyscrapers, jet planes, economic modeling, accurate weather forecasting, modern medical technologies, or any of the countless other achievements we take for granted in today's world.

One of life's most exhilarating experiences is the "aha!" moment that comes from pondering a mathematical problem and then seeing the way to an elegant solution. Try your hand at these:
Can you cut a sheet of typing paper with scissors into only one piece so that an elephant can step through it?
What is the first time after noon at which the hour and minute hands meet?
Seventeen pennies are on a table. Two players take turns removing 1, 2, 3, or 4 pennies. The last to make a legal move wins. Is there a winning strategy?"

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Hype, hope, or horror? A vivid look at nanotechnology, written by an insider and experienced science writer...

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