This is the first volume of the series entitled "Physics at the Turn of the Millennium." This book contains three chapters. The first chapter deals with the fundamentals of a new interdisciplinary scientific direction, physics of open systems, whose origin was associated with the work of outstanding... (More)

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For several decades now, people around the world have shown tremendous interest in Afghanistan. This country has been continuously struggling with a legacy of protracted wars, political tensions and religious confrontation. To this day, Afghanistan remains a bleeding wound left by the... (More)

This is the second volume of the series entitled "Physics at the Turn of the Millennium." This book contains five chapters. The first chapter is devoted to modern concepts pertaining to the nature of fundamental interactions. The second chapter describes some novel objects of atomic physics that attract... (More)

Preface

CHAPTER 1. Foundations

1.1. Manifolds

1.2. Definition of a Dynamical System

1.3. Elements of Topological Dynamics

1.4. Linear maps

1.5. Grobman-Hartman Theorem

1.6. Hyperbolic Sets

1.7. Basic Theorems for Hyperbolic Sets

1.8. Nontrivial attractors and repellers

1.9. Expansiveness,mixing,... (More)

The present textbook deals with physical foundations of nanotechnologies. The book consists of three quite independent chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the plasma state of matter, its fundamental physical phenomena, their laws and regularities. The fundamental ideas related to physics micro-... (More)

The book offers a self-contained description of the theory of finite and continuous groups, and their representations, applied to problems from various areas of quantum mechanics, such as the theory of atoms, quantum chemistry, the theory of solids, and relativistic quantum mechanics.

Special attention... (More)

The book contains all the theoretical and experimental problems of the last six International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiads 2001-2006. It is a result of a great work of a large group of scientists from different countries, whose biography data are also presented in the book. The reader has a possibility... (More)