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Informationen zum Autor William Nellis is a Research Associate of the Department of Physics, Harvard University, Massachusetts, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, holder of the APS Duvall Award for Shock Compression Science, past-Chairman of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, past-President of the International Association of High Pressure Science and Technology and holder of its Bridgman Award. He has performed extensive dynamic compression research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, and published over 250 papers in various scientific journals. Klappentext This book clearly explains the processes of making ultracondensed matter using dynamic compression, and provides an overview of research in this field. Zusammenfassung This book comprehensively and authoritatively covers making and studying materials at extreme conditions of pressure! density and temperature using dynamic compression. Researchers! graduates and undergraduates will gain an intuitive understanding of designing and interpreting experiments! and benefit from an up-to-date history of dynamic compression research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Basics of dynamic compression; 3. Generation of dynamic pressures; 4. Brief history of high-pressure research: 1643 to 1968; 5. Rare gas fluids; 6. Metallization of fluid hydrogen at 140 GPa; 7. Unusual magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune: metallic fluid H; 8. Shock-induced opacity in transparent crystals; 9. Metastable solid metallic hydrogen (MSMH); 10. Warm dense matter at shock pressures up to 20 TPa (200 Mbar); References; Index.
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William Nellis is a Research Associate of the Department of Physics, Harvard University, Massachusetts, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, holder of the APS Duvall Award for Shock Compression Science, past-Chairman of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, past-President of the International Association of High Pressure Science and Technology and holder of its Bridgman Award. He has performed extensive dynamic compression research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, and published over 250 papers in various scientific journals.
