Dimensional Analysis by Jeffrey Williams

Dimensional Analysis by Jeffrey Williams

An accessible, modern, self-contained and systematic overview to dimensional analysis for scientists and engineers. Explains how it can be applied practically to aid y a greater understanding of theoretical concepts, in designing experiments and analysing experimental data. With examples from the physical, biological and engineering sciences.

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Jeffrey Huw Williams was born in Swansea, Wales, on 13 April 1956, he gained his PhD in chemical physics from Cambridge University in 1981. His career has been in the physical sciences. First, as a research scientist in the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Illinois, and subsequently as a physicist at the Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, one of the world's leading centres for research involving neutrons and neutron scattering.

Jeffrey Williams has published more than sixty technical papers and invited review articles in the peer-reviewed literature. However, he left research in 1992 and moved to the world of science publishing and the communication of science by becoming the European editor for the physical sciences for the AAAS's Science. Subsequently, he was the Assistant Executive Secretary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the agency responsible for the advancement of chemistry through international collaboration. Most recently, 2003-2008, he was the head of publications at the Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM), Sü¾Ž†”¼vres. The BIPM is charged by the Metre Convention of 1875 with ensuring world-wide uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units (SI). It was during these years at the BIPM that he became interested in, and familiar with the origin of the Metric System, its subsequent evolution into the SI, and the coming transformation into the Quantum-SI.

Since retiring, Williams has devoted himself to writing; in 2014 he published Defining and Measuring Nature: The make of all things in the IOP Concise Physics series. This publication outlined the coming changes to the definitions of several of the base units of the SI, and the evolution of the SI into the Quantum-SI. Last year Williams published Order from Force: A natural history of the vacuum in the IOP Concise Physics series. This title looks primarily at intermolecular forces, but also explores how ordered structures, whether they are galaxies or crystalline solids, arise via the application of a force.

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ISBN 13	9780750336536
ISBN 10	0750336536
Title	Dimensional Analysis
Author	Jeffrey Williams
Series	Iop Ebooks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Institute of Physics Publishing
Year published	2021-12-14
Number of pages	244
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