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Oxy-fuel combustion has the potential to reduce the atmospheric CO2-emissions of fossil fuel power plants by burning gaseous or solid fuels under an atmosphere of carbon dioxide and oxygen. The combustion under oxy-fuel operating conditions, however, is accompanied by...
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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.
DEFIN. I.
By the Rays of Light I understand its least Parts,...
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One of the reasons for writing this story in its present form is to help the reader to realise that electrons are not mythical, but real existing things, and by far the most interesting things we know anything about. The discovery of electrons has shed a new light upon...
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Do you know the basics of general relativity?
Do you want to know something of what more there is?
Do you wonder how the theory of relativity came into being?
Then this book is for you!
Partial contents:
- Black holes and gravitational collapse
- Cosmological...
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Thanks to new, improving experimental techniques, modern biology is discovering a steadily growing body of new facts and data about the living nature. A good example of this advancement is the decryption of the complete genome of a rapidly increasing number of...
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Take a tour beneath the surface of colours!
A New Groundbreaking Colour Theory
This easy-to-read and versatile book finally explains colour phenomena validly and comprehensively and helps the reader to understand the world of colours surrounding us.
The book is...
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Considering the great influence which this Treatise has exercised in the development of the Science of Optics, it seems strange that two centuries should have passed before an English edition of the work appeared. Perhaps the circumstance is due to the mistaken zeal...
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In the experiments such as performed this evening, we operate the coil either from a specially constructed alternator capable of giving many thousands of reversals of current per second, or, by disruptively discharging a condenser through the primary, we set up a...
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This dissertation employs doping to investigate basic gallium nitride (GaN) crystal properties and to solve challenges of the hydride vapour phase epitaxy (HVPE) growth process.
Whereas the first chapter is a short introduction to the history of the GaN single crystal...
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This book presents photos of 390 palaeolithic stone artefacts collected at Stone Age sites in the Moroccan Sahara. The sites are distributed over an area of only 400 km2 and each has a description, photos of landscape and GBS coordinates. All artefacts are made of...
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Food plays an essential part in everyday life.Food should be tasty, healthy, sustainable and preferably not too expensive. But food should also be safe and with sufficient guarantees on maintaining good quality aspects until the end of shelf life. The various actors in...
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Optical constants are specific properties of condensed matter that allow to describe in a simple way the interaction of light or other electromagnetic radiation with matter. There is always a requirement for optical constants values for estimating colour, reflection,...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Albert Einstein in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and career of Albert Einstein. Einstein’s name has become synonymous with genius,...
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Nature. An extraordinary term. There is no other word in our human dictionary containing more substance. Scientists devote their entire lives to studying Nature, propelled by her apparent vastness and seeming myriad unknowns; an individual life being simply too short to...
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About the book:
The author deals with a number of concepts appearing in the special relativity.
1) Experiments with two reference S1 and S2, Standing on each other, and an object in S1 in which events occur.
2) Experiments with two reference S1 and S2 Moving with...
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This book will transport you to a universe founded on a hypothesis whereby electrical instability reigns in an absolute vacuum in which positron-electron pair production takes place spontaneously. The author sheds new light on how matter and antimatter are formed and...
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Genetic engineering admires as a method and process of biotechnology and at the same time cursed? Why cursed?
This method uses specifically in the genetic material (Genome), and thus in the biochemical control processes of living beings (including the plants).
The story...
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In this work nanoscale properties in active layers of small molecule organic solar cells are studied regarding their impact on device performance. For this, the effect of variations in stack design and process conditions is examined both electrically and with high...
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Plant breeding and global warming has made it possible to grow adapted grape varieties in higher latitudes, north of 52 N latitude in Europe. The northernmost grape growing occurs nowadays in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland), the Baltic...
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Bioinformatics links content from the life sciences with mathematical concepts from computer science and is significantly involved in the current advances in the molecular biology and medicine. Areas of application are the structural biology, the pharmaceutical and...
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