This is a classical book on heat conduction that has served the heat transfer community for well three decades. It is well written and describes the... analytical techniques in a lucid style with numerous examples. The comprehensive problems at the end of the book provide ideas for term long research projects for graduate students.

Most design engineers are tasked to design against failure, and one of the biggest causes of product failure is failure of the material due to... fatigue/fracture. From leading experts in fracture mechanics, this new text provides new approaches and new applications to advance the understanding of crack initiation and propagation. With applications in composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging, among others, this timely coverage is an important resource for anyone studying or applying concepts of fracture mechanics.Concise and easily understood mathematical treatment of crack tip fields (chapter 3) provides the basis for applying fracture mechanics in solving practical problems. Unique coverage of bi-material interfacial cracks (chapter 8), with applications to commercially important areas of composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging. A full chapter (chapter 9) on the cohesive zone model approach, which has been extensively used in recent years to simulate crack propagation. A unified discussion of fracture criteria involving nonlinear/plastic deformations

A treatment of analytical modelling in applied electromagnetics, focusing on the nature of models in radio engineering. It examines topics such as... metamaterials, photonic bandgaps and artificial impedance surfaces, and applies these concepts to a wide range of applications. The author provides working examples that are mainly directed to antenna applications, but the modelling methods and results can be used for other practical devices as well.

Analytical Molecular Biology illustrates the importance of simple analytical methods applied to some basic molecular biology problems, with an... emphasis on the importance of biological problems, rather than the complexity of mathematics. First, the book examines crucial experimental data for a specific problem. Mathematical models will then be constructed with explicit inclusion of biological facts. From such models, predictions can be deduced and then suggest further experimental studies. A few important molecular biology problems will be discussed in the order of the complexity of the mathematical models. Based on such illustrations, the readers can then develop their own analytical methods to study their own problems. This book is for anyone who knows they need to learn how to apply mathematical models to biology, but doesn't necessarily want to, from practicing researchers looking to acquire more analytical tools to advanced students seeking a clear, explanatory text.

Analytical Politics is an introduction to analytical theories of politics, explicitly designed both for the interested professional and classes in... political science. We cannot evaluate how well governments perform without some baseline for comparison: What should governments be doing? This book focuses on the role of the "center" in politics, drawing from the classical political theories of Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, and others. The main questions in Analytical Politics involve the existence and stability of the center: When does it exist? When should the center guide policy? An understanding of the work reviewed here is essential for anyone who hopes to evaluate the performance or predict the actions of democratic governments.

Only a few dozen spelling mistakes account for the majority of all errors. If you learn these common errors and how to correct and avoid them, your... spelling ability will increase dramatically. Goof Proof Spelling covers these most common errors in mini-lessons with 25 goof-proof rules that clearly explain the typical error and how to prevent it. Moreover, you'll be shown easy ways to banish the big blunders from your writing, to quickly enhance your spelling. The book also contains a list of troublesome words that are frequently misspelled, as well as technology, business, literary, legal, and foreign language words. Plus, you'll also find a brief overview of some word fundamentals, making this book a key companion for the learner on the go.

Students, education professors, K-12 classroom teachers, reading specialists, school psychologists and staff developers alike will find this resource a... valuable instrument for measuring the reading progress of typical, remedial, and gifted readers. A thorough, diagnostic, research-based informal reading inventory–with clear, step-by-step instructions for administration–Analytical Reading Inventory offers everything needed for classroom assessment and direct, relevant advice about instructional intervention. Included is a Readers’ Passages booklet and a DVD that includes Lecture Visuals (Show it!), Audio Clips (Listen to it!), Templates (Type or write on it!), and Video Clips (Watch it!).

This guide promotes the use of analytical skills in community organization practice, including information gathering and processing, legislative... research, needs assessment, participatory action research, political analysis, population forecasting and social indicator analysis, power analysis, program development and planning, resource development, budgeting, and grant writing,. These analytical methods, often used in practice but seldom systematically discussed, assist the practitioner in identifying community problems, planning interventions, and conducting evaluations. The text explicates a problem-solving model that identifies concepts and theories underlying practice, methods for problem identification and assessment, and techniques for goal setting, implementation, and evaluation. It features extensive listings of Web sites for community organization practice and is dedicated to the idea that the community organizer, to be truly effective, must be prepared to be an active learner.

Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical... sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven inspired, insightful, and in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, flamenco, modern American chamber music, and a wealth of other genres create a border-erasing compendium of ingenious music analyses. Selections on the companion website are carefully matched with extensive transcriptions and illuminating diagrams in every chapter. Opening rich cross-cultural perspectives on music, this volume addresses the practical needs of students and scholars in the contemporary world of fusions, contact, borrowing, and curiosity about music everywhere.

"Analytical System Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation" combines results from analytical mechanics and system dynamics to develop an approach to modeling... constrained multidiscipline dynamic systems. This combination yields a modeling technique based on the energy method of Lagrange, which in turn, results in a set of differential-algebraic equations that are suitable for numerical integration. Using the modeling approach presented in this book enables one to model and simulate systems as diverse as a six-link, closed-loop mechanism or a transistor power amplifier.

Designed to introduce the reader to a variety of analytic techniques applicable to music of our century, this valuable new book is written in a... straightforward, clear style and includes abundant music examples, practical exercises, and reinforcing overviews.Refreshingly free of jargon and the abstruse mathematical equations that characterize so many works of a speculative nature, this insightful study utilizes masterworks of twentieth-century music as the bases for discussion and analysis.Analytic Approaches is organized into four units. The first focuses on aspects of musical structure other than pitch, such as rhythm, texture, timbre, form, and relationship of tonal music to the musics of our time. Units 2 and 3 deal with pitch structure: Unit 2 with pitch-class sets and Units 3 with serial music. Unit 4 contains a survey of music of the most recent generation.The author admits freely that the perception of a work of art is a personal matter. In this book, he does not pretend to teach "the" way to listen to or to analyze contemporary music. Rather, he seeks to lead the reader to more informed listening through an understanding of how musical materials are used achieve both sonic and expressive effects.

This respected text makes extensive use of applications and features items such as historical vignettes to make the material useful and interesting. ... The text is written for the one-term analytic geometry course, often taught in sequence with college algebra, and is designed for students with a reasonably sound background in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.

Tailored for a first course in the study of analytic geometry, the text emphasizes the essential elements of the subject and stresses the concepts... needed in calculus. This new edition was revised to present the subject in a modern, updated manner. Color is used to highlight concepts. Technology is integrated with the text, with references to the Calculus Explorer and tips for using graphing calculators. Several new topics, including curve fitting involving mathematical modeling were added. Exercises were updated. New and varied applications from medicine to navigation to public health were added.

This Anthology may serve as a supplementary reader for undergraduate, graduate, and law school courses in Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, and... Introduction to Law, or it may serve as the textbook for a jurisprudence course. Alternatively, it may be dipped into by anyone interested in the fascinating issues of legal philosophy.