"Version: 20190102"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fusion energy : concepts and prospects -- 1.1. Nuclear fusion and Lawson's criterion -- 1.2. Magnetic confinement -- 1.3. Inertial confinement2. Ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations and multi-parallel-fluid MHD theory -- 2.1. Moment…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Models of nature -- 2. Randomness -- 2.1. What is random? -- 2.2. How does randomness show up in nature? -- 2.3. Random and deterministic signals -- 2.4. From noisy data to the likelihood function3. Bayesian and frequentist approaches to…
"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Brief history of the debate -- 1.1. The modern emergentists -- 1.2. Einstein, Pauli, and Schr?odinger -- 1.3. The return of emergence -- 1.4. Questioning the hierarchy -- 1.5. Weinberg and the response to P.W. Anderson -- 1.6. Universali…
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Successful replications. 2. The discovery of the Higgs boson -- 3. The observation of gravity waves -- 3.1. The binary pulsar -- 3.2. The binary black hole merger -- 4. The scattering of antineutrons by protonspar…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Some basic concepts in solid state physics -- 2.1. Drude model -- 2.2. Sommerfeld model3. From orbitals to bands -- 3.1. Orbitals in a chain of atoms -- 3.2. Importance of the crystal structures -- 3.3. Covalent solids…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Plasmas in space and in the laboratory -- 1.1. Plasmas in nature and in the laboratory -- 1.2. Solar plasmas -- 1.3. The Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere -- 1.4. Plasma physics and space technology -- 1.5. Commentaries and further re…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and 1-D and 2-D motion -- 2. Energy and conservation -- 3. What did Newton say about force? -- 4. Momentum, collisions, and sweet spot -- 5. All that spin : angular motions and angular momentum -- 6. Effects of fluids in spo…
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Coulomb forces at the macroscopic level -- 1.2. Coulomb forces at the microscopic level -- 1.3. Semi-empirical forces in molecular systems2. Physical principles -- 2.1. Forces, potential energy, and equilibrium -- 2.…
"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Prologue : physics pedagogy -- 1. Physics textbooks : origins before 1650 and principal natural philosophies and physics textbooks of the Enlightenment -- 1.1. Physics textbooks : origins before 1650 -- 1.2. Principal Enlightenment natural …
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Optically stimulated luminescence2. Instrumentation and experimental methods -- 2.1. Time-correlated photon counting -- 2.2. Time-tag mode -- 2.3. Other methods3. Models of time-resolved optically stimulated luminesc…