With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets, and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures. Written by one of the world's foremost ...
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With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets, and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, this book will inform and fascinate all scientists dealing with materials properties and physics, and also serve as an excellent introduction to plasma-, shock-wave and high-energy-density physics for students and newcomers seeking an overview.
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Publisher:
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Published:
2011
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18083561116
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Seller's Description:
Very good. No dust jacket. Clean pages and tight binding. 344 p. Contains: Unspecified. Frontiers Collection. Includes Unspecified. Audience: College/higher education. Thank you for supporting the Friends of the Torrance Library. Your purchase helps us to provide adult and children's programs and new library services.
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Published:
01/2010
Alibris ID:
17978543622
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Very Good. Size: 6x0x9; Springer Verlag; New York, 2011. Hardcover. A Very Good, binding sturdy and intact, slightly cocked, mild waving to pages along edges, small soiled spot page 112, some sunning to page margins, without Dust wrapper. A nice, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 332pp., references. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
