Free Download Extreme States of Matter: on Earth and in the Cosmos by Vladimir E. Fortov
English | PDF (True) | 2011 | 345 Pages | ISBN : 3642164633 | 32.9 MB
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.