Title Statements
- Full title :Ultracondensed matter by dynamic compression / William Nellis, Harvard University, Massachusetts.
Summary
This book clearly explains the processes of making ultracondensed matter using dynamic compression, and provides an overview of research in this field.
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 158 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781108230841, 1108230849
- oclc:ocn986999698
- LC Classification:QC173.454
- Dewey Decimal:530.4/1
Table of Contents
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Beyond Shock Compression: Tunable Thermodynamics -- 1.2 Cold, Warm and Hot Matter -- 1.3 Experimental Timescales -- 1.4 Thermal Equilibrium -- 1.5 Recent Accomplishments -- 1.5.1 Metallic Fluid Hydrogen (MFH) -- 1.5.2 Unusual Magnetic Fields of Uranus and Neptune: Metallic Fluid H -- 1.5.3 General Issues in Planetary Science -- 1.5.4 General ''Atomic'' States of Warm Dense Fluids at Extreme Conditions in Exoplanets -- 1.5.5 Strong Transparent insulators and Shock-Induced Opacity -- 1.5.6 Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF): Deuterium-Tritium Fuel -- 1.5.7 Potential Novel Materials: Metastable Solid Metallic Hydrogen (MSMH) and Others -- 1.6 Bibliography -- 2 Basics of Dynamic Compression -- 2.1 Shock Compression -- 2.1.1 Simple Shock Front on an Atomic Scale -- 2.1.2 Rankine-Hugoniot Equations -- 2.1.3 Shock-Pressure Release -- 2.1.4 Shock-Dissipation Energy -- 2.1.5 Shock-Impedance Matching -- 2.1.6 Error Bars of Shock-Compression Data -- 2.1.7 Limiting Shock Compression and Quasi-Isentropic Compression of an Ideal Gas -- 2.1.8 Adiabaticity, Thermal…
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