PHYSICS
Hydrostatic Transmissions and Actuators
Operation, Modelling and Applications
Gustavo Koury Costa & Nariman Sepehri
✤✤ An updated comprehensive textbook suitable for courses on fluid power systems and technology, and mechatronics systems design ✤✤ Coverage includes current and emerging applications of hydrostatic transmissions and actuators in automobiles, mobile equipment, wind turbines, wave energy harvesting and airplanes ✤✤ Features end-of-chapter exercises and real world industrial examples throughout and a companion website hosting a solution manual Print ISBN: 978-1-118-81879-4 (Cloth) US$120.00 • JUL 2015 • 440PP
ISBN 111881879-2
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Introduction to Fluid Mechanics 9th Edition SI Version (Previously Announced)
Textbook
Lead Title
Robert W. Fox, Alan T. McDonald, Philip J. Pritchard & John W. Mitchell
This text is well regarded as an undergraduate textbook for its balanced and comprehensive approach to mastering critical concepts, incorporating a proven problem-solving methodology that helps readers develop an orderly plan to finding the right solution and relating results to expected physical behavior. ✤✤ Real-World Case Studies: A new case study begins each chapter, providing students with motivation and demonstrating how fluid mechanics concepts are applied to solve real-world problems ✤✤ Numerous demonstration videos demonstrating various fluids phenomena are integrated throughout the text ✤✤ Includes over 100 detailed example problems illustrating important fluid mechanics concepts and incorporate problem-solving techniques that allow students to see the advantages of using a systematic procedure ✤✤ More than 1,700 end-of-chapter problems with varying degrees of difficulty give instructors many options when creating assignments
ISBN 111896127-7
9 781118 961278
Print ISBN: 978-1-118-96127-8 (Paper) US$268.95 • Sep 2015 • 680PP Supplement Available
Optics & Photonics
Biologically-Inspired Computer Vision
Lead Title
Fundamentals and Applications
Gabriel Cristobal, Matthias Keil & Laurent Perrinet
✤✤ This is a comprehensive and rigorous reference in the area of biologically motivated vision sensors. The study of biologically visual systems can be considered a two-way avenue. On one hand, biological organisms can provide a source of inspiration for new computational efficient and robust vision models and on the other hand machine vision approaches can provide new insights for understanding biological visual systems ✤✤ This book covers a wide range of topics from fundamental to more specialized topics, including visual analysis based on a computational level, hardware implementation, and the design of new more advanced vision sensors ✤✤ The book concludes with an overview of a few representative applications and current state of the art of the research in this area, making it a valuable book for graduate, Master, PhD students and also researchers in the field Intended Audience: Optical Industry, Information Processing and Usage, Sensor Industry, Computer Scientists, Robotics Engineers, Physicists, Physicists in Industry, Experimental Physicists, Semiconductor Physicists, Applied Physicists, Biophysicists, Ph.D. Students in Physics, Master's Students in Physics, Bachelor's Students in Physics, Physical Industry, Lecturers in Physics, Students in Physics, Bioengineers, Bioengineers, Biologists, Lecturers in Electrical Engineering, Robotics Engineers, Students in Robotics, Mathematicians, Applied Mathematicians, Lecturers in Mathematics, Bachelor's Students in Engineering Sciences, Telecommunications engineers, Electronics engineers, Neurobiologists, Lecturers in Biology, Company Libraries, Libraries at University Institutes, University Institutes and Libraries Print ISBN: 978-3-527-41264-8 (Cloth) US$205.00 • OCT 2015 • 480PP
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ISBN 352741264-6
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