A Very Noisy Stable

A new range of value-for-money story collections from bestselling author Bob Hartman's Storyteller books

This is the story of God, some very noisy animals in a very ordinary stable in a little place called Bethlehem, and a very extraordinary baby whose name was Jesus. Children will love the repetitive nature of the story and the noises made by the animals on that first Christmas night.

Stochastic Processes; Fluctuation Phenomena; Classical Statistical Mechanics; Oscillator; Brownian Motion; Stochastic Resonance; Multiplicative Noise

The All Join In series of Bible story board books is designed for sharing with babies and young children, with closeup smiley faces that very young children can respond to. Each story is linked to its characteristic sounds and includes sound-alike words that little ones can join in with. This interactivity beomes a way of understanding the story. Each happy ending is delivered through a lift-the-flap surprise, and is chosen to focus on a single memorable message from the story.

The properties of the harmonic oscillator with random frequency or/and random damping formed the content of the first edition. The second edition includes hundreds of publications on this subject since 2005. The noisy oscillator continues to be the subject of intensive studies in physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences. The new and the latest type of a stochastic oscillator has also been considered, namely, an oscillator with random mass. Such model describes, among other phenomena, Brownian motion with adhesion, where the molecules of the surrounding medium not only randomly collide, but also stick to the Brownian particle for some (random) time, thereby changing its mass. This edition contains two new chapters, eight new sections and an expanded bibliography. A wide group of researchers, students and teachers will benefit from this book.