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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001188429707536

Autore

Teller, Edward

Titolo

Properties of matter under unusual conditions : in honor of Edward Teller's 60th birthday / edited by Hans Mark and Sidney Fernbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Interscience Publishers, c1969

ISBN

0470569905

Descrizione fisica

ix, 389 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.

Classificazione

52.9.55

53.3

53.6.5

530.08

Q171

Altri autori (Persone)

Mark, Hans Michael

Fernbach, Sidney

Soggetti

Science

Teller, Edward, 1908-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographies.

An appreciation on the 60th birthday of Edward Teller, by E. P. Wigner.--The concept of "understanding" in theoretical physics, by W. Heisenberg.--On the origin of galaxies, by G. Gamow.--The origin of deep-focus earthquakes, by D. T. Griggs and D. W. Baker.--Response of rocks to stress, by G. H. Higgins.--Material properties at high pressure, by R. E. Duff.--Polymeric materials for extreme conditions, by H. F. Mark.--Ultra-high neutron fluxes; their production and use, by F. de Hoffmann and W.

L. Whittemore.--The physics of high temperature plasma, by R. F. Post.--Numerical simulation of turbulent flow, by C. E. Leith.--A statistical mechanical treatment of macroscopic change with time, by J. E. Mayer.--Approximate symmetries in atomic and elementary particle physics, by H. P. Dürr.--On the theory of near-adiabatic transitions, by K. M. Watson.--Some solutions of the classical isotopic gauge field equations, by T. T. Wu and C. N. Yang.--Eigenvalues of Casimir operators, by C. L

. Critchfield.--Strange matter, by J. A. Wheeler.