PHYSICAL 'WONDERS' REVEALED IN NEW BOOK AND DVD SET
Magicians never reveal their secrets. But physicists, it seems, will jump at the chance.
University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor Clint Sprott was one of the first in the world to turn physics into enlightening entertainment. Since 1984, he has presented his "Wonders of Physics" shows to a total audience of more than 160,000 people, on the UW-Madison campus and around North America.
Now, after 22 years, Sprott is pulling back the curtain more than ever before, in a book and DVD set that will allow anyone to "try this at home"- or, more likely perhaps, at school.
"Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics" is available now and will be officially released March 1 by the University of Wisconsin Press. The book is a detailed, 300-page, heavily illustrated manual on how to present, with flair, 85 "Wonders of Science" demonstrations.
Organized to teach the six major areas of classical physics - motion, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, and light - it is accompanied by two DVDs showing each demonstration presented to a live audience. A limited number of copies of the book will be on display at "Wonders of Physics" shows on February 12, 18 and 19, both at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., at 2103 Chamberlin Hall, 1150 University Avenue.
"Physics Demonstrations" can be purchased at most bookstores, or ordered online at http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3606.htm.
Sprott's other publications include "Introduction to Modern Electronics" and "Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos." He has won several awards for his work in public science education, including a lifetime achievement award from the Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers.
Press Monograph PM143
Sculptured Thin Films: Nanoengineered Morphology and Optics
Author(s): Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Russell Messier
Publication Date: Jan 2005; 336 pages; Hardcover; In print
Prices: $63 / $75 (SPIE Member/List)
Sculptured thin films (STFs) are a class of nanoengineered materials with properties that can be designed and realized in a controllable manner using physical vapor deposition. This text, presented as a short course at the SPIE Optical Science and Technology Symposium, couples detailed knowledge of thin-film morphology with the optical response characteristics of STF devices. An accompanying CD contains Mathematica™ programs for use with the presented formalisms. Thus, readers will learn to design and engineer STF materials and devices for future applications, particularly with optical applications. Graduate students in optics and practicing optical engineers will find the text valuable, as well as those interested in emerging nanotechnologies for optical devices.
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Introduction to Complex Mediums for Optics and Electromagnetics
Editor(s): Werner S. Weiglhofer, Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Publication Date: Nov 2003; 776 pages; Hardcover; In print
Prices: $76 / $95 (SPIE Member/List)
Complex-mediums electromagnetics (CME) describes the study of electromagnetic fields in materials with complicated response properties. This truly multidisciplinary field commands the attentions of scientists from physics and optics to electrical and electronic engineering, from chemistry to materials science, to applied mathematics, biophysics, and nanotechnology. This book is a collection of essays to explain complex mediums for optical and electromagnetic applications. All contributors were requested to write with two aims: first, to educate; second, to provide a state-of-the-art review of a particular subtopic. The vast scope of CME exemplified by the actual materials covered in the essays should provide a plethora of opportunities to the novice and the initiated alike.
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The Handbook of Nanotechnology. Nanometer Structures: Theory, Modeling, and Simulation
Editor(s): Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Publication Date: Jul 2004; 576 pages; Hardcover; In print
Prices: $70 / $88 (SPIE Member/List)
This volume is a researcher's reference handbook to the many aspects of nanometer structures. Although intended as a source for the serious researcher, novices will find a great deal of interesting content. The theories covered include nanostructured thin films, photonic bandgap structures, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, atomistic techniques, nanomechanics, nanofluidics, and quantum information processing. Modeling and simulation research on these topics have now reached a stage of maturity to merit inclusion as well.
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Announcing the New Nanochemistry Textbook
From the author of the highly cited paper ”Nanochemistry: Synthesis in Diminishing Dimensions“ Advanced Materials 1992, 4, 612-649, comes the first teaching textbook on the subject entitled ”Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials“. This 636 page textbook, containing around 400 illustrations and images, is published by The Royal Society of Chemistry. It is co-authored by Geoffrey A. Ozin and Andre Arsenault of the Materials Chemistry Research Group, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is scheduled to appear around August 2005.
This is the first textbook for teaching Nanochemistry. It adopts an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to teaching the subject. The book presents a basic chemical strategy for making and manipulating nanomaterials and describes the physicochemical principles of materials self-assembly over ”all“ scales. It demonstrates how nanometer and micrometer scale building blocks, with a wide range of shapes, compositions and surface functionalities, can be coerced through chemistry to organize spontaneously into unprecedented structures, which can serve as tailored functional materials. Suggestions of new ways to tackle research problems in Nanoscience and speculations on how to think about assembling the future of Nanotechnology are given.
Designed for teaching the underpinnings of Nanoscience through the eye of the materials chemist and crosscutting the traditional boundaries of chemistry and physics, materials science and engineering, biology and medicine, this twelve-chapter book will appeal to graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It has been written so that it can be easily adapted for introducing the rudiments and principles of Nanochemistry to undergraduates in their freshman to higher years. It is well illustrated with graphical representations and images of the synthesis, structure and form of nanomaterials, and contains problem sets as well as other pedagogical features such as further reading, case studies and a comprehensive bibliography. It also presents a blueprint for NanoLab, undergraduate experiments that give a hands-on experience to the student wishing to appreciate the practical side of Nanochemistry, described in each chapter of the book.
The Contents of the book follows the order: Preface - In the Beginning there was Nano; Nanochemistry Basics; Chemical Patterning and Lithography; Layer-By-Layer Self-Assembly; Nanocontact Printing and Writing; Nanorod, Nanotube, Nanowire Self-Assembly; Nanocluster Self-Assembly; Microspheres - Colours from the Beaker; Microporous and Mesoporous Materials; Self-Assembling Block Copolymers; Biomaterials and Bioinspiration; Self-Assembly of Large Building Blocks; Nano and Beyond; Nanochemistry and Nanolabs; Appendices, Subject Index.
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NANOCHEMISTRY – A CHEMICAL APPROACH TO NANOMATERIALS
Geoffrey A. Ozin, Andre Arsenault, Materials Chemistry Research Group, University of Toronto
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New book on Nanoscale Science and Technology
Nanoscale Science and Technology is a new, graduate level interdisciplinary textbook which has just been published by Wiley. It’s based on the Masters Course in Nanoscale Science and Technology that we run jointly between the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield.
The book covers most aspects of modern nanoscale science and technology. It ranges from ”hard“ nanotechnologies, like the semiconductor nanotechnologies that underly applications like quantum dot lasers, and applications of nanomagnetism like giant magnetoresistance read-heads, via semiconducting polymers and molecular electronics, through to ”soft“ nanotechnologies such as self-assembling systems and bio-nanotechnology. I co-wrote a couple of chapters, but the heaviest work was done by my colleagues Mark Geoghegan, at Sheffield, and Ian Hamley and Rob Kelsall at Leeds, who, as editors, have done a great job of knitting together the contributions of a number of authors with different backgrounds to make a coherent whole.
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Nanotalk
Conversations With Scientists and Engineers About Ethics, Meaning, and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology
Author: Rosalyn W. Berne
ISBN: 0-8058-4810-X
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Asso.
Description:
No one really knows where nanotechnology is leading, what its pursuit will mean, and how it may affect human and other forms of life. Nevertheless, its research and development are moving briskly into that unknown. It has been suggested that rapid movement towards 'who knows where' is endemic to all technological development; that its researchers pursue it for curiosity and enjoyment, without knowing the consequences, believing that their efforts will be beneficial. Further, that the enthusiasm for development comes with no malicious intent but rather from simple ignorance. Contrary to that commonly held perception about the collective pursuit of technological development, there are individual research scientists and engineers who are quite willing to reflect on the meaning of their work in nanotechnology.
Nanotalk is a book of conversations and explorations with thirty five such nano-research scientists and engineers who share their ideas, experiences, perceptions, and beliefs about their work, humanity, nature, change, and the future of the world with nanotechnology. Precisely because of the unknowable nature of nanotechnology research and development, conscientious foresight and ethical reflection are warranted every step of the way. Not only do nanotechnology research and development represent enormous financial commitments, but they also require a profound leap of faith regarding its possible outcomes. Using these conversations as the basis of reflection and deliberation, the author explores the possible significance of nanotechnology to humanity and how it might be pursued conscientiously and ethically.
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Surface Roughness, Waviness, and Lay
(Revision of ASME B46.1-1995)
The world's first metrology standard to address the nanotechnology challenge. The ASME B46.1-2002 standard is concerned with the geometric irregularities of surfaces. It defines surface texture and its constituents: roughness, waviness, and lay. It also defines parameters for specifying surface texture. The terms and ratings in this Standard relate to surfaces produced by such means as abrading, casting, coating, cutting, etching,plastic deformation, sintering, wear, erosion, etc.
This revision of ASME B46.1-1995, besides changes to the existing text, also contains three new Chapters:
a.. Chapter 7 on "Nanometer Surface Texture and Step Height Measurements
by Stylus Profiling Instruments," which addresses the use of contacting profilometry in the measurement of surface texture features whose height dimensions are typically measured within the scale of nanometers. Chapter 7 may be applicable to such industries as the semiconductor, data storage, and micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturers.
b.. Chapter 8 on "Nanometer Surface Roughness as Measured with Phase
Measuring Interferometric Microscope," which addresses the use of optical non-contact techniques for measuring highly polished surfaces. Section 8 may be applied to the measurement of such items as polished silicon wafers, optical components and precision mechanical components.
c.. Chapter 10 on Terminology and Procedures for Evaluation of Surface
Texture Using Fractal Geometry" introduces the field of fractal analysis as applied to measuring surface texture. Introductions of various techniques and terms are included to allow for lateral scale-specific interpretation of surface texture.
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The Calcium Bomb
Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: Writers' Collective;
First edition
ISBN: 1594111014
IF YOU HAVE HEART DISEASE, ARTHRITIS, or CANCER, you've probably got calcification -- one of the most widespread harmful conditions in existence, and found with diseases like osteoporosis and Alzheimers.
Doctors have long known that something in our body misuses calcium to make us sick; they just haven't known why, or how to treat it. But that has just changed. You'll find crucial answers in The Calcium Bomb, including medical science's recent discovery of a particle -- a nanobacterium so small it challenges the very definition of life -- that makes otherwise good calcium go bad, and which has also been discovered in other incurable diseases. Until recently scientists didn?t know that it existed or what it did. But now they are beginning to understand what it is... and how to treat it.
THE GOOD NEWS: Many patients are improving with tests and a new treatment aimed at heart disease calcification. Will it work for arthritis, injuries, and some cancers where the time bomb also lurks? In easy-to-understand terms for general audiences, this book explores the compelling evidence.
Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World 2002
Doug Mulhall
Publisher: Prometheus
"...moletronics, smart dust, desktop fabrication, genetic programming, augmented reality, nanoecology, dendrochronology, requisite variety, and singularity..." What are they? Why are they profoundly significant for each of us? Read Our Molecular Future to find out..."This isn't just a book, it's a whole new field of study, and a new concept for applying technology."
http://www.ourmolecularfuture.com/text/book.html
A Teacher's Resource for High School.
Teaching Nanotechnology in the High School Curriculum: A Teacher's Guide, has been provided by Ken Bowles, Apopka High School, Florida. This guide was created under the RET program at University of Central Florida UCF NANOPAC - 2004, and is a First Edition. We hope this helps the many high school teachers who have been waiting for curriculum in Nano Scale Science.
Download the PDF file:
Teaching Nanotechnology in the High School Curriculum.pdf
A Power Point on Nanotechnology Curriculum is also available at:
http://www.bowlesphysics.com/nano/Nanotechnology.ppt
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