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Carbon-Carbon Materials and Composites

William Andrew Publishing, 1994

Carbon-carbon composites, which have been used extensively for missile applications, were a part of NASA's Apollo spacecraft heat shield system. The development of carbon-carbon materials began in 1958 and was nurtured under the U.S. Air Force space plane program, Dyna-Soar, and by numerous thermal protection systems...

The Surface of Mars (Cambridge Planetary Science)

Cambridge University Press, 2007

This book summarizes our knowledge of the morphology of the martian surface and speculates on how the surface evolved to its present state. During the last three decades our knowledge of Mars has increased dramatically. A succession of orbiting spacecraft (Table I) have observed the planet at ever-increasing resolution, rovers have traversed the...

Reflectarray Antennas

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Describes the configuration and principles of a reflectarray antenna, its advantages over other antennas, the history of its development, analysis techniques, practical design procedures, bandwidth issues and wideband techniques, as well as applications and recent developments. Both authors are well respected practitioners who have build these...

Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure

Springer, 2004

The highly variable conditions in the Earth-related space environment, including the Sun, the interplanetary medium and the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere system, are collectively known as space weather. In the recent past we have experienced that space weather influences the performance and reliability of space- and ground-based...

The Volcano Adventure Guide

Cambridge University Press, 2005

The Volcano Adventure Guide is the first book of its type. It contains vital information for anyone wishing to visit, explore, and photograph active volcanoes safely and enjoyably. Following an introduction that discusses eruption styles of different types of volcanoes, how to prepare for a volcano trip, and how to avoid volcanic dangers, the book...

GNU/Linux Application Programming (Programming Series)

Charles River, 2008

GNU/Linux is the Swiss army knife of operating systems. You’ll find it in the smallest devices (such as an Apple iPod) to the largest most powerful supercomputers (like IBM’s Blue Gene). You’ll also find GNU/Linux running on the most diverse architectures, from the older x86 processors to the latest cell processor that powers the...

Unix Unleashed (4th Edition)

Sams Publishing, 2001

Using Solaris 8 and Linux 7.1 as their reference flavors, Robin Anderson and Andy Johnston (as well as a slew of contributors) show how to be a system administrator--and get all sorts of other work done--in the fourth edition of Unix Unleashed. Significantly different from its predecessors, this book stays generally clear of very basic...

The ULTIMATE Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide

McGraw-Hill, 2007

The only book available to cover the Tesla coil in so much detail

The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide is a one-stop reference covering the theory, design tools, and techniques necessary to create the Tesla coil using modern materials.This unique resource utilizes Excel spreadsheets to...

Neural Systems for Control

Apress, 1997

Control problems offer an industrially important application and a guide to understanding control systems for those working in Neural Networks. Neural Systems for Control represents the most up-to-date developments in the rapidly growing aplication area of neural networks and focuses on research in natural and artifical neural systems...

The Handbook of Advanced Materials: Enabling New Designs

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The use of improved materials enables engineers to design new and better products and processes. Benefits include increased sales of improved products and, where new materials are used in manufacturing, reduced plant cost. Society benefits through the use of improved products that use these new materials.

Sophisticated new...

Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems (AIAA Education)

American Institute of Aeronautics, 2003

KINEMATICS is a branch of dynamics that studies aspects of motion apart from considerations of masses and forces. Essentially, Kinematics is a collection of vector/matrix methods to describe positions, velocities and accelerations of particles and rigid bodies, as viewed from various reference frames. The sub-eld of Particle Kinematics...

Kalman Filter Recent Advances and Applications

Scitus Academics, 2016

The discussion about the manned spacecraft program was initiated at NASA in 1959. Only one year later, Dr. Kalman and Dr. Schmidt linked the linear Kalman filter and the perturbation theory in order to obtain the Kalman-Schmidt filter, currently known as the extended Kalman filter. This approach would be implemented in 1961 using an...

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