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This new edition of Consider a Spherical Cow teaches basic mathematical modeling skills that are widely applicable to a huge range of environmental problems facing the world today. Organized both by modeling tools and environmental topics, this innovative book includes 56 posed problems and worked-out solutions. Readers will find introductions to topics, extensive pedagogic material explaining how to use the relevant modeling tools, and opportunities to think more deeply about or confirm steps in the provided solutions. This new edition includes 101 new quantitative homework exercises, an appendix compendium of updated environmental data, a glossary, and a bibliography, plus entirely new sections on probability, toxics, radiation and radioactivity, and epidemics.With wide topical coverage, Harte teaches the math step by step in the context of actual posed environmental problems, emphasizes limitations and strengths of models, and describes practical applications to real problems and situations. Along with the many worked-out problems, discussion questions and quantitative problems are provided as exercises for the reader. The book emphasizes creative applications of math to environmental science, not plug-in problems.

"This textbook provides a one-semester introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics suitable for undergraduate students who have taken quantum mechanics at least at the level of a good modern physics course and have seen Lagrangians in a classical mechanics course. This book is organized around the principle that students learn advanced material best by working it out for themselves. The book therefore consists of relatively short chapters, each providing an overview of a certain topic followed by a series of boxes where students are guided to work out the details for themselves. Each chapter concludes with a number of homework problems that further develop students' understanding of the concepts. Some of these problems can also be used as the focus of classroom activities. This book has also been deliberately designed to offer multiple paths through the material so that professors can choose what they want to emphasize. For example, a professor can elect to skip over material on aspects of quantum field theory to provide more time for exploring applications or vice versa"--

SOLVE: Problems in Environmental Science delivers up a robust set of engaging quantitative problems geared toward students in guided problem-solving groups and Environmental Science courses.

Straub's stunning new text is an excellent choice for a one-semester course on mathematical methods, an affordable supplement for physical chemistry courses, or a self-study guide.

John R. Taylor's best-selling text will be released in a new third edition that features Bayesian statistics and updated new chapter-ending problems throughout. Previously translated into nine languages, this brilliant little text introduces the study of uncertainties to lower division science students using familiar examples.

In response to popular demand, University Science Books is delighted to announce the one and only authorized Student Solutions Manual for John R. Taylor's internationally best-selling textbook, Classical Mechanics. This splendid little manual, by the textbook's own author, restates the odd-numbered problems from the book and the provides crystal-clear, detailed solutions. Of course, the author strongly recommends that students avoid sneaking a peek at these solutions until after attempting to solve the problems on their own! But for those who put in the effort, this manual will be an invaluable study aid to help students who take a wrong turn, who can't go any further on their own, or who simply wish to check their work. Now available in print and ebook formats.

This Fourth Edition of McQuarrie's classic text offers a thorough revision and a quantum-leap forward from the previous edition. Taking an atoms first approach, it promises to be another ground-breaking text in the tradition of McQuarrie's many previous works. This outstanding new text, available in a soft cover edition, offers professors a fresh choice and outstanding value.