"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The principle of superposition and the Fourier series -- 1.1. The principle of superposition -- 1.2. Wave equations -- 1.3. Fourier series -- 1.4. Orthonormal basis2. The Fourier transform -- 2.1. From the Fourier series to the Fourier t…
"Version: 20150301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biographyIntroduction -- A brief survey of celestial objects and a sense of scale -- The size of objects in the Solar System -- Objects beyond the Solar System -- Distances of celestial objectsThe celes…
"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: 20151101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Observational background -- 1.1. Distances -- 1.2. Stellar brightness and luminosity -- 1.3. Colors -- 1.4. Spectroscopy -- 1.5. Color-magnitude diagrams -- 1.6. Stellar masses -- 1.7. The mass-luminosity relation for main seq…
"Version: 20160801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Observational and theoretical motivation for particle dark matter -- 2.1. Gravitational evidence for dark matter halos -- 2.2. Weakly interacting massive particles -- 2.3. Other particle dark matter candidat…
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1 Randomness -- 1.2. Uncertainty -- 1.3. Determinism -- 1.4. Dynamical systems -- 1.5. State space -- 1.6. Attractors -- 1.7. Nonlinear systems -- 1.8. Sensitive dependence -- 1.9. Models and faithfulness2. A brief history of chaotic dynamics -- 2.1. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions -- 2.2.…
"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Overview of pH sensing technologies -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The definition of pH measurement -- 1.3. Glass-based pH sensor -- 1.4. Summary2. Electrochemical pH sensors : classification of materials and their working mechanism -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Materials for electrochemical pH sensing -- 2.3. Method of p…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- List of symbols -- Author biography -- Introduction to molecular spectroscopy and photophysicsThe electronic and nuclear structure of molecules -- Nuclear motions -- How far do the atoms move? -- Representations of the electronic and vibrational statesMechanism for the absorption of light -- State populations -…
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Molecular symmetry -- Symmetry operations and elements -- Classification of molecular symmetry -- Implications of symmetryBasic quantum mechanics -- Wave functions specify a system's state -- Operators represent observables -- Schr?odinger's equation -- Measured and average valuesTranslation and vibration -- A …
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Background and nomenclature : the ideal gas -- van der Waals intermolecular interaction parametersThermodynamic variables and properties in terms of the van der Waals interaction parameters -- Helmholtz free energy -- Critical pressure, temperature and volume -- Entropy, inte…