Product Description: Topics of complex system physics and their interdisciplinary applications to different problems in seismology, biology, economy, sociology, energy and nanotechnology are covered in this new work from renowned experts in their fields...read more

Product Description: Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If so, then why? These questions have attracted the attention of scientists in many disciplines, and stimulated debates ranging from ecological matters to queries such as 'how can there be free will if one follows a law of motion?' This is the first book on this rapidly evolving subject, introducing random searches and foraging in a way that can be understood by readers without a previous background on the subject...read more

Product Description: This set of materials for doing experiments and using computer simulations in science draws upon a variety of fields: biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics. The experiments are unified through the theme of identifying random behavior at the microscopic level in nature, which lead to the formation of patterns at the macroscopic level...read more

Product Description: Biological systems are regulated by the thermodynamic parameters of pressure and temperature. New analytical and computational methods and various kinds of spectroscopy allow detailed studies of the structure and function of biological systems under extreme conditions, as well as the possibility to explicate the origin and evolution of life...read more

Product Description: This book gives up-to-date information on statistical physics for experimental, theoretical, and computational research in a variety of fields, such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and computer science. It contains many review articles by leading scientists and contributed papers by authors on the forefront of research...read more

Product Description: The field of statistical physics has undergone a spectacular development in recent years. The fundamentals of the subject have advanced dynamically with multidisciplinary approaches involving physicists, chemists and mathematicians...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From Newton to Mandelbrot takes the student on a tour of the most important landmarks of theoretical physics: classical, quantum, and statistical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics, and, the most modern and exciting of all, the physics of fractals...read more

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Product Description: Fractals and surfaces are two of the most widely-studied areas of modern physics. In fact, most surfaces in nature are fractals. In this book, Drs. Barabási and Stanley explain how fractals can be successfully used to describe and predict the morphology of surface growth...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Propagation of Correlations in Constrained Systems, Cargèse, Corsica, France, July 2-14, 1990

Product Description: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargèse, Corsica, France, 18-31 July, 1988

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Product Description: We have shown that simple power-law dynamics is expected for flexible fractal objects. Although the predicted behavior is well established for linear polymers, the situationm is considerably more complex for colloidal aggregates. In the latter case, the observed K-dependence of (r) can be explained either in terms of non-asymptotic hydrodynamics or in terms of weak power-law polydispersity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Part I of this book presents a very complete bibliography, current to July 1972, of the literature on the interdisciplinary field of cooperative phenomena near phase transitions. Although the bibliography is in part intended to complement the editor's Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena (Oxford University Press, 1971), the range of subjects covered here extends well beyond the scope of the earlier book and includes such topics as binary alloys, helium, structural phase transitions, liquid crystals, and cooperative phenomena in biological systems...read more