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The Odd Quantum by Sam TreimanPublisher: Princeton University Press, 2002ISBN is 9780691103006 / 0691103003Paperback6 x 9.25 inches, 262 pagesThis is a concise but comprehensive account o… Plus…
The Odd Quantum by Sam TreimanPublisher: Princeton University Press, 2002ISBN is 9780691103006 / 0691103003Paperback6 x 9.25 inches, 262 pagesThis is a concise but comprehensive account of quantum mechanics for popular science readers written by a respected physicist. Sam Treiman--internationally renowned for his work in particle physics--makes quantum mechanics accessible to nonspecialists. Combining mastery of the material with clear, elegant prose and infectious enthusiasm, he conveys the substance, methods, and profound oddities of the field.Treiman begins with an overview of quantum mechanics. He sketches the early development of the field by Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and others, and he makes clear how the quantum outlook flies in the face of common sense. As he explains, the quantum world is intrinsically probabilistic. For example, a particle is not in general in some particular place at a given instant, nor does it have a definite momentum. According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, there is a limit to how well both location and momentum can be specified simultaneously. In addition, particles can move through barriers and otherwise move in regions of space that are forbidden by classical mechanics. If a particle has a choice of different paths, it pursues all of them at once. Particles display wave-like characteristics and waves show particle-like characteristics. Treiman pays special attention to the more fundamental wave outlook and its expression in quantum field theory. He deals here with the remarkable fact that all the particles of a given species are strictly identical, and with the unnerving fact that particles can be created and destroyed. As Treiman introduces us to these and other wonders, he also touches--without resolution--on some of the deep philosophical problems of quantum mechanics, notably how probabilities become facts.Weaving together impeccable and up-to-date science, engaging writing, and a talent for clear explanation honed over Treiman's distinguished career as a physicist and teacher, The Odd Quantum is a remarkable survey of a field that changed the course of modern scientific and philosophical thought.---------------------Sam Bard Treiman (May 27, 1925 November 30, 1999) was an American theoretical physicist who produced research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics, and gravity physics. He made contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the so-called standard model of elementary particle physics. He was a Higgins professor of physics at Princeton University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. He was a student of Enrico Fermi and John Alexander Simpson Jr. Treiman published articles on quantum mechanics, plasmas, gravity theory, condensed matter and the history of physics., Princeton University Press, 2002, 3, Art as Experience Author is John Dewey Publisher: Capricorn Books, 1958Paperback4.25 x 7.25 inches, 357 pagesArt as Experience (1934) is John Dewey's major writing on aesthetics, originally delivered as the first William James Lecture at Harvard (1932). Dewey's aesthetics have been found useful in a number of disciplines, including new media.Dewey had previously written articles on aesthetics in the 1880s and had further addressed the matter in Democracy and Education (1915). In his major work, Experience and Nature (1925), he laid out the beginnings of a theory of aesthetic experience, and wrote two important essays for Philosophy and Civilization (1931).Dewey's theory is an attempt to shift the understandings of what is essential and characteristic about the art process from its physical manifestations in the 'expressive object' to the process in its entirety, a process whose fundamental element is no longer the material 'work of art' but rather the development of an 'experience'. Experience is something that personally affects one's life. That is why these theories are so crucial to people's social and educational life.Such a change in emphasis does not imply, though, that the individual art object has lost significance; far from it, its primacy is clarified: one recognizes an object as the primary site for the dialectical processes of experience, as the unifying occasion for these experiences. Through the expressive object, the artist and the active observer encounter each other, their material and mental environments, and their culture at large.The description of the actual act of experiencing is drawn heavily from the biological/psychological theories Dewey expounded in his development of functional psychology. In Dewey's article on reflex arc psychology, he writes that sensory data and worldly stimulus enter into the individual via the channels of afferent sense organs and that the perception of these stimuli is a 'summation' (quote marks not needed. it was and is a valid conception of a well-researched phenomenon. it was treated generally by James in Principles of Psychology (1890) and specifically there in Chapter 3, under Summation of Stimuli: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57628/57628-h/57628-h.htm):This sensory-motor coordination is not a new act, supervening upon what preceded. Just as the response is necessary to constitute the stimulus, to determine it as sound and as this kind of soundso the sound experience must persist as a value in the running, to keep it up, to control it. The motor reaction involved in the running is, once more, into, not merely to, the sound. It occurs to change the soundThe resulting quale, whatever it may be, has its meaning wholly determined by reference to the hearing of the sound. It is that experience mediated.The biological sensory exchange between man, whom Dewey calls 'the Live Creature' in Art as Experience, and the environment, is the basis of his aesthetic theory:...experience is a product, one might almost say bi-product, of continuous and cumulative interaction of an organic self with the world. There is no other foundation upon which esthetic theory and criticism can build.This quotation is a dramatic expansion of the bounds of aesthetic philosophy, for it demonstrates the connections of art with everyday experience and in doing so reminds people of the highest responsibilities that art and society and the individual have always owed to each other:...works of art are the most intimate and energetic means of aiding individuals to share in the arts of living. Civilization is uncivil because human beings are divided into non-communicating sects, races, nations, classes and cliques.To emphasize what is aesthetic about an experience is not to highlight what is apolitical or impractical or otherwise marginal about that experience; instead, it is to emphasize in what ways that experience, as aesthetic, is a 'manifestation, a record, and celebration of the life of a civilization, a means for promoting its development' and, insofar as that aesthetic experience relates to the kinds of experiences had in general, it is also the 'ultimate judgment upon the quality of a civilization., Capricorn Books, 1958, 0, Chemical Processing of Advanced Materials by Larry L. Hench & Jon K. WestPublisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1992ISBN is 9780471542018 / 0471542016Hardcover6.15 x 9.5 inches, 1048 pagesBased on material submitted by the world's leading scientists at the Fifth Ultrastructure Processing Conference held in February, 1991. Their current research results provide a comprehensive treatment of the recent state of science and applications in chemically derived glasses, polymers, ceramics, composites and advanced optical materials. Includes Sol-Gel and Silica Science; Thin Films and Coatings; Ultrastructural Polymers; Chemically Processed Fibers and Composites; and much more.------------------------Dr. Hench taught materials science engineering at UF for 32 years. During that time he invented Bioglass, the first man-made material to bond with living tissues. Bioglass is a unique range of soda-calcia-phosphate-silica glasses.------------------------LARRY HENCH (1938-2015) Professor Emeritus Larry L. Hench passed away on Dec. 16, 2015 at his home in Ft. Meyers, FL. He was 77. Dr. Hench taught materials science engineering at UF for 32 years. During that time he invented Bioglass, the first man-made material to bond with living tissues. Bioglass is a unique range of soda-calcia-phosphate-silica glasses. Hench's concept behind it of bioactive bonding pioneered the field of biomedical materials and revolutionized a new approach to repair and regeneration in the body. Bioglass and its derivatives are still used extensively around the world in the repair of bones, joints and teeth."Larry was a pivotal and important figure in our department for many years, and with everything he did, was a true renaissance man," said James Baciak, professor and chair of UF's department of materials science and engineering, noting that in addition to his work with Bioglass, Hench's research was pivotal in solving problems related to nuclear waste storage. "He will be greatly missed."Hench and his contributions to materials research were recently featured on the Discovery UK series Future Now: Scientific Breakthroughs Shaping Our Lives. The episode, "Repairing the Human Body," describes how Hench who at the time was making nonreactive ceramic materials for space missions met a Vietnam War surgeon who was eager to find a bone graft material that the human body would not reject. It was 1969, and Bioglass soon made history.After retiring from UF, Hench joined Imperial College London, as chair of their Ceramic Materials Department. At Imperial he co-founded and co-directed the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre for 10 years. He also authored a series of children's books featuring Boing-Boing the Bionic Cat, and created educational materials such as workbooks, experiment books and hands-on kits to stimulate interest in science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM).----------------------The late Dr. Larry Hench was University Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, Professor and Director of Special Projects at the University of Central Florida, Visiting Professor at Kings College/Guy's Hospital University of London, Guest Faculty at the Department of Bioengineering at Florida Gulf Coast University, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Florida and Imperial College London.For 10 years Dr. Hench served as Co-Director of the Imperial College Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre. He assumed the Chair of Ceramic Materials at Imperial College in 1995 following 32 years at the University of Florida where he served as Graduate Research Professor, Director of the Bioglass Research Center and Co-Director of the Advanced Materials Research Center. He completed his Bachelor of Ceramic Engineering degree at The Ohio State University in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964.Dr. Hench received almost all the awards in ceramics, materials science and biomaterials that are possible, including membership in the National Academy of Engineering and the ACerS W.D. Kingery Award. He was also a Fellow and Distinguished Life Member of ACerS. Hench died in December 2015.-------------------------Dr Larry Hench was born on 21 November 1938 in Shelby, Ohio and graduated from The Ohio State University in 1961 and 1964 with BS and PhD degrees in Ceramic Engineering. He went to the University of Florida in 1964 as an Assistant Professor and in 1969 discovered Bioglass®, the first man-made material to bond with living tissues. In recognition of this discovery, which founded the field of bioactive medical and dental implants, and the development of methodology for investigating the interfacial bonding of this new class of biomaterials he was awarded the Clemson Award for Basic Research in 1977, the highest award of the Society for Biomaterials. This work combined with fundamental studies of glass systems led to a general theory of glass-environment interactions and the 1980 George W. Morey award, the highest honour of the Glass Division of the American Ceramic Society. The technology for manufacturing and quality assurance of bioactive glasses was achieved in Dr Hench's laboratory and transferred successfully to industry in 1984. Bioglass® prostheses for middle ear reconstruction, dental implants, and Bioglass® powders for repair for periodontal defects were approved for sale by the FDA in 1985, 1990, and 1993, respectively and are being marketed by US Biomaterials Corporation under license from the University of Florida. CE marks for sales of Bioglass® dental products in Europe were obtained in 1996 and in 1997 for orthopaedic products ----------------------Dr. Jon K. West, Ph.D., graduated from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Florida with his Ph.D. while working full time as an engineer with General Electric Company, Battery Business Department. Dr. West is a well-respected physicist who holds over 20 patents related to materials, materials processing, quantum chemistry and power storage devices. He has authored over 60 reviewed articles and 3 books related to materials engineering and scientific concepts.-------------------------J.K. West's studies on quantum molecular orbital (MO) modelling yielded significant insight into the understanding of structure-property relationships for bulk amorphous silica, as well as for porous type VI gel-silica. The same MO methods were applied by Hench and co-workers to a variety of topics: quantum clusters of Si-SiO 2 , silica densification, silica-water interactions, silica pore models, Cr 3? -doped silica, silica fracture, biological interactions of Bioglass Ò , and biomimetic synthesis., Wiley-Interscience, 1992, 3, Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing, 2005-11-25. Paperback. Very Good. 305 pages; edge wear; If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore PHP-Nuke, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about realizing this. Throughout the book we develop an example site, as you are taken on a detailed tour of the features of PHP-Nuke. You will be introduced to the main components of PHP-Nuke, and learn how to manage them. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content on the site, and also understand how users work and interact with the site. To make sure that you create a site that looks the way you want it to, the book covers customizing themes to help define your look for your pages. Although PHP-Nuke allows you to accomplish much without doing any web programming, to extend your site you will need to get your hands dirty with some coding. The book leads you through adding custom code to PHP-Nuke, and shows you how PHP-Nuke puts pages together, and the functions it uses for the fundamental operations of the site., Packt Publishing, 2005-11-25, 3, New Riders, 2012-12-31. 1. Paperback. Very Good. US Soft Cover Edition. Book is in great condition with only minimal wear on cover, corners, or spine. A truly fantastic copy! 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