Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics, this uniquely comprehensive overview provides a rigorous, integrated treatment of physical principles and techniques related to gases, liquids, solids, and their phase transitions. 1975 edition.
Colorists looking for new paths in creativity will enjoy these dynamic designs that start with basic shapes — figure eights, abstract florals, geometrics, stars, snowflakes, and more — and fit together like puzzle pieces. Previously published as Ultimate Geometric Designs.
Unique origami book presents illustrated instructions for folding 14 war machines: six jets, three missiles, and five ground vehicles. Models include spy plane, bomber, Predator battle tank, Guardian battle walker, and more.
Parade of vintage trains for railroad buffs of all ages: passenger and cattle cars from 1890, steam locomotive (1900), Streamline Vista-Dome passenger car (1950), much more. 16 stickers.
With this book you can enter a realm of 30 dazzlingly deceptive designs that offer wonderful opportunities for imaginative and inventive colouring. You'll find a host of ingeniously contrived constructions, strange, interlocking shapes, and mind-boggling arrangements.
Twenty-four captivating illustrations: panda, porcupine, giraffe, zebra, moose, llama, lion, koala, alligator, walrus, kangaroo, polar bear, and 12 others. Includes Sticker Guide.
Upper-level undergraduate text introduces aspects of optimal control theory: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's minimum principle, and numerical techniques for trajectory optimization. Numerous figures, tables. Solution guide available upon request. 1970 edition.
Incisive, self-contained account of tensor analysis and the calculus of exterior differential forms, interaction between the concept of invariance and the calculus of variations. Emphasis is on analytical techniques. Includes problems.
Old-fashioned holiday charm abounds with these collectibles and their colorful portraits of ruddy-cheeked children and Santas. A joy to send or keep, reproduced directly from rare originals of 1900–30.
Largest collection of Art Nouveau type: 137 alphabets (U 23 upper-case fonts; 33 sets decorative initials; 1951 monograms; 146 signets; more.
Complete works of ancient geometer feature such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; more.