Gauss's law for electric fields Gauss's law for magnetic fields Faraday's law & the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science In this guide for students each equation is the subject of an entire chapter with detailed plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation for both the integral & differential forms The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate & graduate courses in electromagnetism & electromagnetics A website hosted by the author at wwwcambridgeorg 9780521701471 contains interactive solutions to every problem in the text as well as audio podcasts to walk students through each chapter ...

Python is a computer programming language that is rapidly gaining popularity throughout the sciences A Student's Guide to Python for Physical Modeling aims to help you the student teach yourself enough of the Python programming language to get started with physical modeling You will learn how to install an open-source Python programming environment & use it to accomplish many common scientific computing tasks importing exporting & visualizing data; numerical analysis; & simulation No prior programming experience is assumed This tutorial focuses on fundamentals & introduces a wide range of useful techniques including Basic Python programming & scripting Numerical arrays Two- & three-dimensional graphics Monte Carlo simulations Numerical methods including solving ordinary differential equations Image processing Animation Numerous code samples & exercises--with solutions--illustrate new ideas as they are introduced Web-based resources also accompany this guide & include code samples data sets & more ...

The study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity for us to gain a deeper understanding of our planet the Solar System the Milky Way Galaxy & the known Universe Using the plain-language approach that has proven highly popular in Fleisch's other Student's Guides this book is ideal for non-science majors taking introductory astronomy courses The authors address topics that students find most troublesome on subjects ranging from stars & light to gravity & black holes Dozens of fully worked examples & over 150 exercises & homework problems help readers get to grips with the concepts in each chapter An accompanying website features a host of supporting materials including interactive solutions for every exercise & problem in the text & a series of video podcasts in which the authors explain the important concepts of every section of the book ...

Vectors & tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available with applications ranging from mechanics & electromagnetics to general relativity Understanding the nature & application of vectors & tensors is critically important to students of physics & engineering Adopting the same approach used in his highly popular A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations Fleisch explains vectors & tensors in plain language Written for undergraduate & beginning graduate students the book provides a thorough grounding in vectors & vector calculus before transitioning through contra & covariant components to tensors & their applications Matrices & their algebra are reviewed on the book's supporting website which also features interactive solutions to every problem in the text where students can work through a series of hints or choose to see the entire solution at once Audio podcasts give students the opportunity to hear important concepts in the book explained by the author ...

This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002) The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly in an engagingly accessible & informal style Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted & corrected & the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' & show why those authorities are mistaken This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar & presupposes no linguistics It contains exercises & will provide a basis for introductions to grammar & courses on the structure of English not only in linguistics departments but also in English language & literature departments & schools of education ...

It is 1882 & the Old Ones are already here They arrived seven hundred years ago & have been ruling the planet ever since The majority of people just get on with their lives accepting their monstrous rulers However a growing band of revolutionaries wish to free mankind from their slavery These freedom fighters call themselves the Restorationists A secret war has already broken out between the Restorationists & the forces loyal to the Old Ones The invention of dynamite has changed the balance of power & a lone assassin now has the capacity to destroy an Old One In this shadow world of assassins informers police agents & anarchists nobody is quite sure who is who & which side they fight for The game A Study in Emerald draws its central plot from the award-winning short story penned by Neil Gaiman in which the worlds of Sherlock Holmes & HP Lovecraft are combined to telling effect However to create a world detailed enough for players much has been added from real history The nineteenth century was a time of unrest with many colorful characters fighting both for & against the authorities A Study in Emerald is the outcome of the merging of these three worlds This second edition of A Study in Emerald sports new artwork by Ian O& Toole & Tatiana Kuzilova along with a streamlined set of rules that will hopefully help those folks who found the first version a tad complicated Inconsistencies have been removed & the number of available actions has been reduced to the minimum whilst still retaining the mood of paranoia from the first edition ...

The Penguin English Library edition When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality & violence Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single word is written on the wall in blood Dr Watson is as baffled as the police but Holmes's brilliant analytical skills soon uncover a trail of murder revenge & lost love ...

All legends begin somewhere & the two novels here are where one of the world&s best-loved legends began In A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson first meet & investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house In The Sign of the Four the detective faces an even greater challenge solving both the disappearance of Captain Arthur Morstan & the theft of the Agra treasure in India In this Macmillan Collector&s Library edition Sherlock scholar David Stuart Davies provides an illuminating afterword Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure ...

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Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life & our duty is to unravel it After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy ill-omened' house with the word rache'
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