Greenwood Press | ISBN: 0–313–32122–1 | English | PDF | 298 Pages | Size: 6.31 MB
INTRODUCTION
The Pillars of Creationism
This book examines the creationism/evolution controversy from a broad perspective. You will read about science, religion, education, law, history, and even some currentevents, because all of these topics are relevant to an understanding of this controversy.In this introduction, we will examine three antievolutionist contentions that provide a framework for thinking about this complex controversy. These “Pillars of Creationism” include scientific, religious, and educational arguments, respectively, and have been central to the antievolution movement since at least the Scopes trial in 1925. As you read the following chapters and selections, it may be helpful to keep the “Pillars of Creationism” in mind.
EVOLUTION IS A “THEORY IN CRISIS”
In 1986 New Zealand physician Michael Denton wrote a book titled Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, which became, and remains, very popular in creationist circles. Denton claimed that there were major scientific flaws in the theory of evolution. This idea is not new: throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was no shortage of claims that evolution scientifically was on its last legs, as documented delightfully by Glenn Morton on his Web site Code: http://home.entouch.net/dmd/ moreandmore.htm . Of course, such claims continue to be made in the twenty-first century as well. Ironically, Denton has rejected the antievolutionary claims of some of his readers, and describes his 1986 book as opposing Darwinism (i.e., evolution through natural selection), rather than rejecting evolution itself (Denton 1999). Through constant reiteration in creationist literature and in letters to the editor in newspapers around the country, the idea that evolution is shaky science is constantly spread to the general public, which by and large is unaware of the theoretical and evidentiary strength of evolution. Evolution as a science is discussed in chapter 2.

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Cambridge University Press | ISBN-13: 9780521455060 | English | PDF | 490 Pages | Size: 6.37 MB
Introduction
This book provides an accessible introduction to astronomy and general relativity, aiming to explain the Universe, not just to describe it. Written by an expert in relativity who is known for his clearly-written advanced textbooks, the treatment uses only high-school level mathematics, supplemented by optional computer programs, to explain the laws of physics governing gravity from Galileo and Newton to Einstein.
Table Of Contents
Preface
Background: what you need to know before you start
1 Gravity on Earth: the inescapable force 1
2 And then came Newton: gravity takes center stage 9
3 Satellites: what goes up doesn't always come down 19
4 The Solar System: a triumph for Newtonian gravity 25
5 Tides and tidal forces: the real signature of gravity 39
6 Interplanetary travel: the cosmic roller-coaster 51
7 Atmospheres: keeping planets covered 65
8 Gravity in the Sun: keeping the heat on 85
9 Reaching for the stars: the emptiness of outer space 103
10 The colors of stars: why they are black (bodies) 109
11 Stars at work: factories for the Universe 121
12 Birth to death: the life cycle of the stars 135
13 Binary stars: tidal forces on a huge scale 153
14 Galaxies: atoms in the Universe 163
15 Physics at speed: Einstein stands on Galileo's shoulders 179
16 Relating to Einstein: logic and experiment in relativity 195
17 Spacetime geometry: finding out what is not relative 211
18 Einstein's gravity: Einstein climbs onto Newton's shoulders 225
19 Einstein's recipe: fashioning the geometry of gravity 239
20 Neutron stars: laboratories of strong gravity 261
21 Black holes: gravity's one-way street 285
22 Gravitational waves: gravity speaks 309
23 Gravitational lenses: bringing the Universe into focus 331
24 Cosmology: the study of everything 345
25 The Big Bang: the seed from which we grew 367
26 Einstein's Universe: the geometry of cosmology 383
27 Ask the Universe: cosmic questions at the frontiers of gravity 391
App values of useful constants 419
Glossary 421
Index 443


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Praeger Publishers | ISBN: 0–275–98788–4 (set) | English | PDF | 919 Pages | Size: 6.38 MB
SERIES FOREWORD
The interface between psychology, religion, and spirituality has been of great interest to scholars for a century. In the last three decades a broadpopular appetite has developed for books which make practical sense out of the sophisticated research on these three subjects. Freud expressed an essentially deconstructive perspective on this matter and indicated that he sawthe relationship between human psychology and religion to be a destructive interaction. Jung, on the other hand, was quite sure that these three aspects of the human spirit, psychology, religion, and spirituality, were constructively and inextricably linked. Anton Boisen and Seward Hiltner derived much insight from both Freud and Jung, as well as from Adler and Reik, while pressing the matter forward with ingenious skill and illumination. Boisen and Hiltner fashioned a framework within which the quest for a sound and sensible defi nition of the interface between psychology, religion, and spirituality might best be described or expressed.1 We
are in their debt. This series of General Interest Books, so wisely urged by Greenwood Press, and particularly by its editors, Deborah Carvalko and Suzanne I. Staszak-Silva, intends to defi ne the terms and explore the interface of psychology, religion, and spirituality at the operational level of daily human experience. Each volume of the series identifi es, analyzes, describes, and evaluates the full range of issues, of both popular and professional interest, that deal with the psychological factors at play (1) in the way religion takes shape and is expressed, (2) in the way spirituality functions within human persons and shapes both religious formation and expression, and (3) in the ways that............................................

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New Riders Publishing | English | PDF | 817 Pages | Size: 4.90 MB
Introduction
No matter what field you work in, you cannot help but notice the impact that the Internet has had on society. It has opened up opportunities and markets that people only dreamed of before. As with any new technology, there is always a positive and negative aspect. The positive side is the tremendous business opportunities. The negative side is the huge security risk that is now posed to so many companies, yet few companies are truly aware of the potential danger. It’s like getting in a brand new car and driving down the road at 80mph, only to realize that the engineers did not equip the car with breaks. If this did occur and a large number of people bought the car, the net result would be a high number of fatalities because the proper breaking was not built into the car. The same thing is occurring with the Internet. Now that companies have invested millions of dollars in this new infrastructure, they realize that security was not properly built in, and now their entire companies are vulnerable. The point of this book is that there is no way to properly protect a company’s network unless you know what you’re up against. Only by understanding how attacks work and what an attacker does to compromise a machine can a company position itself so that it can be properly protected. If someone tells you to protect a site against a certain threat and you don’t understand what the threat is or how it works, you cannot protect against it. Knowing what an attacker can do to compromise your system and what that compromise looks like on a network allows you to build a secure system. Although this book goes into techniques used to hack a machine and perform common exploits, it is not meant to be a handbook on how to hack. It is meant to help a company properly close up its vulnerabilities and protect its computers. I want to make you aware of the tools that are available and how easy they are to use, and I want to show you what a company must do to have a secure network.

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World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc. | ISBN-13: 9789812387035 | English | PDF | 298 Pages | Size: 12.4 MB
incoln is a physicist and the collaborating author on numerous research papers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), where he investigates high-energy particles. A veteran of many popular talks on physics, he charmingly relates the tale of humankind's almost insatiable curiosity about the ultimate nature of nature and the quest to determine the basic particles of matter. His style is engaging and obviously directed to informed lay readers, but the more scientifically minded will find it equally appealing. Still, at over 500 pages, it is not light reading. If digested with the notion that this topic is presented in a broad swath, both historically and scientifically, and not meant to be definitive, the work offers readers an appreciation of the investigative procedure, the accumulated body of research, and the people who did the investigating. Recommended for public and academic collections.
Table Of Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xxiii
1. Early History 1
2. The Path to Knowledge (History of Particle Physics) 22
3. Quarks and Leptons 107
4. Forces: What Holds It All Together 147
5. Hunting for the Higgs 209
6. Accelerators and Detectors: Tools of the Trade 248
7. Near Term Mysteries 315
8. Exotic Physics (The Next Frontier) 383
9. Recreating the Universe 10,000,000 Times a Second 444
10. Epilogue: Why Do We Do It? 487
Appendix A Greek Symbols 492
Appendix B Scientific Jargon 493
Appendix C Particle-Naming Rules 496
Appendix D Essential Relativity and Quantum Mechanics 501
Appendix E Higgs Boson Production 513
Appendix F Neutrino Oscillations 519
Further Reading 525
Glossary 535
Index 557

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Cambridge University Presss | ISBN-13: 9780521617109 | English | PDF | 298 Pages | Size: 12.4 MB
The pioneering work of Edwin T. Jaynes in the field of statistical physics, quantum optics, and probability theory has had a significant and lasting effect on the study of many physical problems, ranging from fundamental theoretical questions through to practical applications such as optical image restoration. Physics and Probability is a collection of papers in these areas by some of his many colleagues and former students, based largely on lectures given at a symposium celebrating Jaynes' contributions, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and retirement as Wayman Crow Professor of Physics at Washington University. The collection contains several authoritative overviews of current research on maximum entropy and quantum optics, where Jaynes' work has been particularly influential, as well as reports on a number of related topics. In the concluding paper, Jaynes looks back over his career, and gives encouragement and sound advice to young scientists. All those engaged in research on any of the topics
discussed in these papers will find this a useful and fascinating collection, and a fitting tribute to an outstanding and innovative scientist.
Table Of Contents
Preface
Recollections of an Independent Thinker 1
A Look Back: Early Applications of Maximum Entropy Estimation to Quantum
Statistical Mechanics 9
The Jaynes-Cummings Revival 15
The Jaynes-Cummings Model and the One-Atom-Maser 33
The Jaynes-Cummings Model is Alive and Well 49
Self-Consistent Radiation Reaction in Quantum Optics - Jaynes' Influence
and a New Example in Cavity QED 63
Enhancing the Index of Refraction in a Nonabsorbing Medium: Phaseonium
Versus a Mixture of Two-Level Atoms 73
Ed Jaynes' Steak Dinner Problem II 81
Source Theory of Vacuum Field Effects 91
The Natural Line Shape 101
An Operational Approach to Schrodinger's Cat 113
The Classical Limit of an Atom 117
Mutual Radiation Reaction in Spontaneous Emission 127
A Model of Neutron Star Dynamics 137
The Kinematic Origin of Complex Wave Functions 153
On Radar Target Identification 161
On the Difference in Means 177
Bayesian Analysis, Model Selection and Prediction 195
Bayesian Numerical Analysis 207
Quantum Statistical Inference 223
Application of the Maximum Entropy Principle to Nonlinear Systems Far
from Equilibrium 239
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics 251
A Backward Look to the Future 261
Appendix: Vita and Bibliography of Edwin T. Jaynes 277
Index 283

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A King Content Publications | English | PDF | 64 Pages | Size: 5.45 MB

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Universal Music International | ISBN-13: 9780262201759 | English | PDF | 1347 Pages | Size: 5.35 MB
Introduction
Hundreds of programming languages are in use today--scripting languages for Internet commerce, user interface programming tools, spreadsheet macros, page format specification languages, and many others. Designing a programming language is a metaprogramming activity that bears certain similarities to programming in a regular language, with clarity and simplicity even more important than in ordinary programming. This comprehensive text uses a simple and concise framework to teach key ideas in programming language design and implementation. The book's unique approach is based on a family of syntactically simple pedagogical languages that allow students to explore programming language concepts systematically. It takes as its premise and starting point the idea that when language behaviors become incredibly complex, the description of the behaviors must be incredibly simple.
Table of Contents
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxi
I Foundations 1
1 Introduction 3
2 Syntax 19
3 Operational Semantics 45
4 Denotational Semantics 113
5 Fixed Points 163
II Dynamic Semantics 205
6 FL: A Functional Language 207
7 Naming 307
8 State 383
9 Control 443
10 Data 539
III Static Semantics 615
11 Simple Types 617
12 Polymorphism and Higher-order Types 701
13 Type Reconstruction 769
14 Abstract Types 839
15 Modules 889
16 Effects Describe Program Behavior 943
IV Pragmatics 1003
17 Compilation 1005
18 Garbage Collection 1119
A A Metalanguage 1147
B Our Pedagogical Languages 1197
References 1199
Index 1227

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CRC Press | ISBN 978-0-8493-7617-7 | English | PDF | 504 Pages | Size: 10.6 MB | RAR Compressed | No Password
Introduction
Circuit design can be considered an art based on the fundamental concepts we learn in electrical and electronic engineering. With the unprecedentedadvancement of semiconductors, today a designer has many choices of components. Although keeping track of all the new integrated circuits (ICs)appearing on the market is a difficult task, it may be particularly useful if design challenges include miniaturization of the overall product. Passive components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transformers need to be mixed effectively and optimally with semiconductor components in building a particular circuit. In this exercise of “design and development,” the designer needs to work with the delicate balance between the real or the analog world, where signals can take any value within a given range, and the digital world, where we make use of processors, memories, and other peripheral devices to accurately process information. To summarize the need for the delicate balance required, it may be appropriate to
cite Jim Williams, a well-known linear circuit designer: “Wonderful things are going on in the forgotten land between ONE and ZERO. This is real electronics.” Within the past quarter century, a new domain of semiconductors has appeared that links the analog and digital worlds. That is the world of mixed signal electronics, where analog-to-digital conversion, and vice versa, occurs. In this book, emphasis is placed on the analog world of electronics together with the mixed signal domain of design. In dealing with the challenges we face in the process of design and development, a few essential fundamentals need to be reviewed. This chapter reviews the essentials so that designers can comfortably link theory and practice. The reader can find details related to theory and analysis in standard textbooks used for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

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English | PDF | 150 Pages | Size: 5.17 MB

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