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Why would anyone write a new edition of a book that is still selling after many years? The explanations of the basic theory in the first edition are still valid, and the methods are still the ones that are most widely used. However I still felt an update was required. Richard M. Martin, author ofElectronic Structure Basic Theory and Practical Methods. Second Edition gives his personal reasons for updating the original edition (2004)
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What inspired Rigid Body Kinematics? This book is the result of a whole professional life devoted to Newtonian Mechanics, both from an educational and a research point of view.
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Inspired by over 40 years’ industrial/academic experience in the field, Finite Elements for Engineers with ANSYS Applications by Mohamed Gadala is out now. This textbook targets users of the finite element method for design and analysis in both undergraduate and graduate fields with a step-by step methodology that addresses the mathematical challenges faced by current […]
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What inspired this book? The Central States Section of the Combustion Institute (CSSCI) has been hosting a combustion art contest at its meetings for many years. Someone at Cambridge University Press found out about that and asked if we would be interested in producing a book similar to Cambridge’s A Gallery of Fluid Motion but […]
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Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.
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Oliver O’Reilly of UC Berkley, joins us to discuss the writing and impact of his latest book, the 2nd edition of Intermediate Dynamics for Engineers: Newton-Euler and Lagrangian Mechanics. An important book for dynamics classes across a range of engineering programs, this textbook provides a clear introduction to the kinematics and kinetics of particles and […]
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What inspired this book? In accepting the role of instructor for the UMD (University of Maryland) course entitled “Spacecraft Thermal Design”, which the book is based upon, I quickly learned that this topic included an unanticipated challenge. In researching reference texts for the course, it quickly became apparent that there was no textbook available that […]
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The rapidly-increasing number of known planets has just passed the 4200 mark, according to NASA. The upshot of this is that we may now have enough planets to detect extraterrestrial life, even if we never discovered any more planets, which is most unlikely given that there are over 5000 additional ‘candidate planets’ awaiting confirmation. Discovering […]
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