Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers

C. B. McArdle

ISBN 10: 0216925037 / ISBN 13: 9780216925038

Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 1990, 1990

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Neuware -This book covers all the major electronic devices for microwave applications. While device physics is covered in detail to give your students a firm understanding of the operating principles of the devices, the book is written from a practical engineering viewpoint; it gives extensive coverage of major circuit and sub-system types commonly used in the whole range of microwave systems in communications, broadcasting, radar and remote sensing. This comprehensive and detailed book will give both students and junior engineers in industry a firm base in microwave electronics. Its practical approach with coverage of important real world topics such as noise, measurement and device modelling, combined with its breadth of coverage, ranging from vacuum devices through solid-state devices to monolithic microwave integrated circuits, ensures that it is a uniquely valuable text and reference for years to come.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 468 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers
• Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 1990
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0216925037
• ISBN 13: 9780216925038
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America. Yet political economy, the science of wealth born of the First Industrial Revolution, is devoid of energy, focusing instead on machinery or capital. According to basic mechanics, tools per se are not productive, as they are not source of energy. This book uses basic mechanics and thermodynamics to reexamine the rise of political economy as the science of wealth in the 19th and 20th centuries. The study shows that the failure of generations of political economists to formally incorporate energy into their models of production and distribution has led to the unfortunate state in which economics currently finds itself. With the inclusion of energy, important insights result. For instance, the Solow Residual in both 19th-century Great Britain and 20th-century America disappears. Unlike previous critiques of political economy, this analysis is constructive in nature, using past shortcomings and oversights as a springboard to a more consistent model of economic activity, especially production. The book is the first of its kind to use basic physics and thermodynamics as a guide to the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, and more importantly, to show how political economists from Smith to Fisher have attempted to understand these two energy-based Industrial Revolutions.