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This book combines the enlarged and corrected editions of both volumes on classical physics stemming from Thirrings famous course. The treatment of classical dynamical systems uses...

Cutting edge biological concepts delivered with a greater emphasis on evolution and a logical use of analogies. This textbook was written from the ground up to...

Humanoid Robots: Modeling and Control provides systematic presentation of the models used in the analysis, design and control of humanoid robots. The book starts with a...

One of the most pressingproblems of mathematics over the last hundred years has been the question: What is a number? One of the most impressive answers...

This survey of thermal systems engineering combines coverage of thermodynamics, fluid flow, and heat transfer in one volume. Developed by leading educators in the field, this...

LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR, 7E, International Edition is stimulating and filled with high-interest queries and examples. Based on the theme that learning is a biological mechanism that...

Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Second Edition takes both an analytical/theoretical approach and a visual/intuitive approach to the local and global properties of curves and...

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Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems, Second Edition introduces MATLAB®, Simulink®, and Simscape and then uses them throughout the text to perform symbolic, graphical, numerical, and...