"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Prologue -- Some scientific preliminaries -- The Manhattan Project : a surveyThe background science -- Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes -- The neutron, artificial radioact…
"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Historical background -- 2. Brief history of the Universe -- 3. Let there be light -- 3.1. Light magnitude4. Stars -- 4.1. Clusters -- 4.2. Stellar evolution5. Galaxy formation -- 5.1. Galaxy classes -- 5.2. Galaxy …
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Some mathematics -- 1.2. How Lissajous figures are formed2. History -- 2.1. Nathaniel Bowditch and the Y-shaped pendulum -- 2.2. Jules Lissajous and his tuning forks -- 2.3. Hubert Airy's harmonographs3. Harmonograp…
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.1. Propositional algebra -- 1.1. Propositions -- 1.2. Logical operators -- 1.3. Notes on notation -- 1.4. The T and F symbols -- 1.5. Properties of logical operators [not sign], [vel], and [wedge] -- 1.6. The [turnstile] symbol2. Predicate logic -- 2.1. What is predicate logi…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Universal properties of electromagnetic pulses -- 1.3. Conservation laws -- 1.4. Energy-momentum inequality -- 1.5. Lorentz invariants -- Appendix A. Radiation of electromagnetic pulses -- Append…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Semiconductor band structure and heterostructures -- 1.1. Atom shape and crystal structure -- 1.2. Hybridization -- 1.3. Crystal structure -- 1.4. The one-electron Schr?odinger equation -- 1.5. Bloch's theorem -- 1.6. The origin of compl…
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Building blocks of matter -- 1.2. Fundamental forces -- 1.3. Overview of nuclear medicine2. A brief history of nuclear medicine -- 2.1. Radioactivity -- 2.2. Production of radionuclides for medicine -- 2.3. Diagnosti…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Two-dimensional Boussinesq equation. Boussinesq paradigm and soliton solutions -- 1.1. Boussinesq equations. Generalized wave equation -- 1.2. Investigation of the long-time evolution of localized solutions of a dispersive wave system --…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field -- 1.1. Static fields perhaps well known -- 1.2. Time dependent fields perhaps less well known -- 1.3. Bibliography2. The messengers of the interactions : the 'quanta' of the …
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Ionization in the electric field and the first Townsend coefficient3. Microwave breakdown -- 3.1. Microwave breakdown due to diffusion -- 3.2. Microwave breakdown in the presence of a low dc field4. Breakdown and self-…