Extreme States of Matter: High Energy Density Physics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319189529)

With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, this book will inform and fascinate all scientists dealing with materials properties and physics and also serve as an excellent introduction to plasma-, shock-wave and high-energy-density physics for students and newcomers seeking an overview. This second edition is thoroughly revised and expanded, in particular with new material on high energy-density physics, nuclear explosions and other nuclear transformation processes.

Author: Vladimir E. Fortov
ISBN-10: 3319189522
ISBN-13: 9783319189529
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2016
Pages: 700
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.58lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.50d