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A complete set of lecture notes for an upper-division classical dynamics course. The course concentrates on those aspects of classical dynamics which can be studied analytically. Topics covered include oscillations, Keplerian orbits, two-body scattering, rotating frames of reference, rotation of rigid bodies in three dimensions, Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, and coupled oscillations.
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Archive for September, 2009
Analytical Classical Dynamics: An intermediate level course
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Algorithms and Data Structures in VLSI Design
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Description:
One of the main problems in chip design is the huge number of possible combinations of individual chip elements, leading to a combinatorial explosion as chips become more complex. New key results in theoretical computer science and in the design of data structures and efficient algorithms, can be applied fruitfully here. The application of ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) has led to dramatic performance improvements in many computer-aided design projects. This textbook provides an introduction to the foundations of this interdisciplinary research area with an emphasis on applications in computer-aided circuit design and formal verification.
Bioinspiration and Robotics: Walking and Climbing Robots
Saturday, September 26th, 2009Description:
Nature has always been a source of inspiration and ideas for the robotics community. New solutions and technologies are required and hence this book is coming out to address and deal with the main challenges facing walking and climbing robots, and contributes with innovative solutions, designs, technologies and techniques. This book reports on the state of the art research and development findings and results. The content of the book has been structured into 5 technical research sections with total of 30 chapters written by well recognized researchers worldwide
The Theory of Sound, Volume One
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009This is one of the first (apart from the Helmholtz’s ’sensations of tone’ and Tyndall’s ’sound’) books published in the field of acoustics. Many of the topics in this book are the research results of Lord Rayleigh himself. The book is written in a very logical manner. Any acoustician who wants to understand physical principles should start with Rayleighs work. Although some of the results from this book are well established and used by some of the advanced prediction computer codes (Rayliegh’s quotient e.t.c) today, the devolopment of the theory fascinates us to understand and use the codes well.
The Wind and Beyond
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Airplane travel is surely one of the most significant technological achievements of the last century. How ideas about aerodynamics first developed and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine that it became is the epic story told in this projected six-volume series. Download or read it online here:
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Understanding OSI
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009This text aims to provide an intelligent near-beginner (as far as OSI is concerned) with an understanding of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). Some previous acquaintance with data communications as presented in the many text books on that broad subject would be useful. The book is aimed at the reader who is curious enough to ask: “Why is it that way? What advantages does that approach give? Might there be other or better ways?” This text is not an exposition of the technical detail of the OSI Standards. Rather it aims to explain why OSI is the shape it is, and to guide the reader in a critical examination of the OSI approach to specifying rules for computer communication (computer protocols).
Visual Reconstruction
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Visual Reconstruction presents a unified and highly original approach to the treatment of continuity in vision. It introduces, analyzes, and illustrates two new concepts. The first — the weak continuity constraint — is a concise, computational formalization of piecewise continuity. It is a mechanism for expressing the expectation that visual quantities such as intensity, surface color, and surface depth vary continuously almost everywhere, but with occasional abrupt changes. The second concept — the graduated nonconvexity algorithm — arises naturally from the first. It is an efficient, deterministic (nonrandom) algorithm for fitting piecewise continuous functions to visual data.
Frontiers in Chemistry
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009On the scientific side, the introduction of new techniques which can virtually see at molecular level has revolutionized the way chemistry is practiced today. One has started looking at nano scale and started designing and fabricating tools at nano scale. This can have far reaching consequences and the expected surprises can be in almost all sectors of human endeavour. It is therefore natural that the teaching and learning of Chemistry have also to change. This is evident from the methodology that one has to adopt since lecture based courses are not longer appealing and one has to use a variety of soft ware tools to demonstrate and make the molecules perform so that the teacher and the taught is enjoying the knowledge transfer process in a totally different platform.
Advances in Sonar Technology
Monday, September 21st, 2009Description:
From the table of contents: Simulation and 3D Reconstruction of Side-looking Sonar Images; Synthetic Aperture Techniques for Sonar Systems; Motion Compensation in High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) Images; Ensemble Averaging and Resolution Enhancement of Digital Radar and Sonar Signals; Independent Component Analysis for Passive Sonar Signal Processing; From Statistical Detection to Decision Fusion: Detection of Underwater Mines in High Resolution SAS Images; Multi-Sonar Integration and the Advent of Senor Intelligence; On the Benefits of Using Both Dual Frequency Side Scan Sonar and Optical Signatures for the Discrimination of Coral Reef Benthic Communities; Outdoor Sonar Sensing; Mobile Robot Localization using Particle Filters and Sonar Sensors.
Derivations of Applied Mathematics
Sunday, September 20th, 2009This is a book of applied mathematical proofs. If you have seen a mathematical result, if you want to know why the result is so, you can look for the proof here. The book’s purpose is to convey the essential ideas underlying the derivations of a large number of mathematical results useful in the modeling of physical systems. To this end, the book emphasizes main threads of mathematical argument and the motivation underlying the main threads, deemphasizing formal mathematical rigor. It derives mathematical results from the purely applied perspective of the scientist and the engineer. This book defines applied mathematics to be correct mathematics useful to scientists, engineers and the like; proceeding not from reduced, well defined sets of axioms but rather directly from a nebulous mass of natural arithmetical, geometrical and classical-algebraic idealizations of physical systems; demonstrable but generally lacking the detailed rigor of the professional mathematician.
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