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Optical anomalies in crystals are puzzles that collectively constituted the greatest unsolved problems in crystallography in the 19th Century. The most common anomaly is a discrepancy between a crystal’s symmetry as determined by its shape or by X-ray analysis, and that determined by monitoring the polarization state of traversing light. These discrepancies were perceived as a great impediment to the development of the sciences of crystals on the basis of Curie’s Symmetry Principle, the grand organizing idea in the physical sciences to emerge in the latter half of the 19th Century. Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, Brauns, Tamman, and many other distinguished crystallographers. From this follows a tutorial in crystal optics. Further chapters discuss the two main mechanisms of optical dissymmetry: 1. the piezo-optic effect, and 2. the kinetic ordering of atoms. The text then tackles complex, inhomogeneous crystals, and the complex optical properties resulting from the superposition of anomalies having various etiologies. The book treats the literature comprehensively, but uses illustrations from the authors’ laboratories as the subjects of detailed analyses. This is an invaluable text for crystallographers, mineralogists, and petrologists interested in the growth of minerals and synthetic crystals, and their optical properties. It is also ideally suited to students of optical mineralogy, professional scientists and engineers as well as historians of science.

Crystal optics. --- Inhomogeneous materials. --- Heterogeneous materials --- Inhomogeneous media --- Media, Inhomogeneous --- Materials --- Matter --- Crystals --- Optical crystallography --- Crystallography --- Physical optics --- Optical properties

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Suitable for specialists in materials science and applied mechanics, this book discusses high performance structures using macro-micro theories and a micro mechanics approach.

Matter. --- Inhomogeneous materials. --- Heterogeneous materials --- Inhomogeneous media --- Media, Inhomogeneous --- Materials --- Matter --- Atoms --- Dynamics --- Gravitation --- Physics --- Substance (Philosophy)

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This title provides detailed coverage of theoretical and experimental methods on the electrical spectroscopy of Earth materials. The book includes actual datasets and specific explanations for the methods used in obtaining and analyzing the data, including graphical displays of results. It describes the electrical properties of various soil samples, offering applicable theories and techniques.--

Electromagnetic fields. --- Inhomogeneous materials. --- Electric conductivity. --- Conductivity, Electric --- Free electron theory of metals --- Transport theory --- Heterogeneous materials --- Inhomogeneous media --- Media, Inhomogeneous --- Materials --- Matter --- Fields, Electromagnetic --- Magnetic fields --- Electric fields

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Non Destructive Testing and Non Destructive Evaluation using Ultrasounds covers an important field of applications and requires a wide range of fundamental theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations. In the present volume, the reader will find some relevant research results on wave propagation in complex materials and structures which are concerned with today’s problems on composites, bonding, guided waves, contact or damage, imaging and structural noise. The fifth meeting of the Anglo-French Research Group on "Wave propagation in non homogeneous media with a view to Non Destructive Testing", where all these results were presented, was held in Anglet, France, June 2-6, 2008.

Ultrasonic testing -- Congresses. --- Ultrasonic waves -- Congresses. --- Ultrasound. --- Ultrasonic waves --- Ultrasonic testing --- Acoustics & Sound --- Materials Science --- Physics --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Inhomogeneous materials --- Nondestructive testing --- Heterogeneous materials --- Inhomogeneous media --- Media, Inhomogeneous --- Supersonic waves --- Waves, Ultrasonic --- Engineering. --- Acoustics. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Structural mechanics. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Structural Mechanics. --- Materials --- Matter --- Sound-waves --- Ultrasonics

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Represents the unified treatment of an important field of research - the theory of quantum fluctuations in inhomogeneous superconductivity materials. This book can be used as a main or supplementary text in graduate courses on superconductivity, many-body systems, phase transitions, submicron physics, and surface science.

Fluctuations (Physics) --- Inhomogeneous materials. --- Superconductors. --- Superconducting materials --- Superconductive devices --- Cryoelectronics --- Electronics --- Solid state electronics --- Heterogeneous materials --- Inhomogeneous media --- Media, Inhomogeneous --- Materials --- Matter --- Variations (Physics) --- Stochastic processes --- Inhomogeneous materials --- Superconductors --- 538.94 --- 538.94 Quantum liquids and solids --- Quantum liquids and solids --- Electronics and optics of solids --- Thermal properties of solids