"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. National missile defense history -- 2. Theater missile defense -- 3. The current architecture -- 4. Ballistic missile threats -- 5. Conclusion.This book provides an introduction to the complex story of missile defense, by recounting past…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Electromagnetics of graphene -- 1.1. Macroscopic electrodynamics -- 1.2. Constitutive relations -- 1.3. From the time domain to the frequency domain -- 1.4. Isotropic media -- 1.5. Conductivity and permittivity formulations --…
"Version: 20160901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1 Concepts in classical mechanics -- 1.1. The quantum-classical boundary -- 1.2. Separation of scales and constraints -- 1.3. Newtonian mechanics -- 1.4. The one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator -- 1.5. Generalization -- 1.…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Physics is practical -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Physics in sports -- 1.3. Physics around the house -- 1.4. How does that thing work?2. Physics is beautiful -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The beauty of electromagnetism -- 2.3. …
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-1-14-2).Preface -- 1. Nanomanipulation : why optical methods are best -- 2. Key properties of the radiation -- 3. Optically induced mechanical forces -- 4. Laser cooling and trapping of atoms -- 5. Dielectric and metal nanoparticl…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Symmetries and effective Hamiltonians -- 1.1. Crash course on symmetry transformations -- 1.2. Effective Hamiltonians for bulk III-V semiconductors -- 1.3. Hands-on : symmetry analysis of a triple quantum dot2. Electron-couplin…
"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Hyperbolic metamaterial geometries and basic properties -- 2. Super-resolution imaging using hyperbolic metamaterials : the hyperlens -- 3. Consequences of singular photonic density of states : radiative decay engineering, thermal hyper-…
"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: 20160301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How many women are in physics? -- 2.1. Historical women in physics -- 2.2. High school physics/upper secondary physics -- 2.3. Current trends in women's participation in physics -- 2.4. College/tertiary educ…
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An overview of composite interfaces -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The fibre-matrix interface -- 1.3. Composite delamination -- 1.4. Strain energy release rate -- 1.5. Examples of interfacial failure2. Chemical characterisation of fibre interfaces by FTIR -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Carbon fibres -- 2.3. Glass fibres --…