Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Main notations and abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter1. Introduction to nanotechnology and microtechnology -- 1.1. Main concepts and definitions used in nano- and micro-technologies -- 1.2. Position of the nano- and micro-objects on the scale of the sizes investigated at the present time -- 1.3. Prefixes to the units of the SI system -- 1.4. Influence of the dimensional effect on the physical properties of materials -- 1.5. The history of development of nanotechnologies and nano-objects -- Chapter2. The physical model of the continuous medium -- 2.1. The continuity equation -- 2.2. The equation of motion -- 2.3. The equation of the mechanical state -- 2.4. The elasticity coefficient -- 2.5. The ponderomotive force -- 2.6. The magnetic pressure jump -- 2.7. The mechanics of 'slipping' of nano- and microparticles in accelerated movement of the suspension -- Chapter3. Measurement of magnetic parameters of nano- and microdispersed media -- 3.1. The magnetic field -- 3.2. Description of experimental equipment and the method for getting the magnetisation curve -- 3.3. The magnetisation curve -- 3.4. Calculation of the 'maximum' and 'minimum' magnetic moments of nanoparticles and their diameters -- Chapter4. The magnetocaloric effect in a nanodispersed magnetic system -- Chapter5. Effect of the ponderomotive force -- 5.1. Experimental confirmation of the ponderomotive mechanism of electromagnetic excitation of elastic oscillations in a magnetic fluid -- 5.2. The ponderomotive mechanism of excitation of oscillations in a cylindrical resonator with a magnetic fluid -- 5.3. The Q-factor of a magnetic fluid film - the emitter of elastic oscillations -- 5.4. Excitation of sound in an unlimited magnetic fluid