"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What are electromagnetic waves? -- 1.1. Electromagnetic radiation -- 1.2. Characterization of EM waves -- 1.3. Basic properties of EM waves -- 1.4. Summary2. Lasers and applying EM wave theory -- 2.1. How does a laser work? -- 2.2. Laser resonator -- 2.3. Types of lasers -- 2.4. Tuning of laser output wavelength -- 2.5…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Messengers of astrophysics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Electromagnetic radiation -- 1.3. Cosmic rays -- 1.4. Neutrinos -- 1.5. Gravitational waves2. From dust ... the birth and death of stars -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Stellar birth -- 2.3. Stellar death3. To dust ... the birth and death of planets -- 3.1. Introduct…
"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.7. Toda's lattice of correlation potentials -- 7.1. The Toda soliton lattice -- 7.2. Developing nonlinearity -- 7.3. Conversion to Korteweg-deVries' lattice potential8. Scattering theory of the soliton lattice -- 8.1. Elemental waves -- 8.2. Scattering theory : dissipation, reflection, and transmission -- 8.3. Method of inv…
"Version: 20240601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Analysis techniques. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Brief perspective on nonlinear ultrasonic guided waves -- 1.3. Approach -- 1.4. Content -- 1.5. Closure2. Preliminaries -- 2.1. Notation -- 2.2. Continuum mechanics -- 2.3. Elastodynamics -- 2.4. Closure3. Nonlinear elastic waves -- 3.1. Bulk longitud…
"Version: 202306"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical theory -- 2.1. Navier-Stokes equations -- 2.2. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations -- 2.3. Turbulent Prandtl and Lewis numbers -- 2.4. Large Eddy Simulation -- 2.5. Inflow boundary conditions -- 2.6. Reynolds number dependence3. Equilibrium turbulent boundary layers -- 3.1. Incompres…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Photothermal and optoelectronic devices. 1. Bolometers, Golay cells and pyroelectric detectors -- 1.1. Bolometers -- 1.2. Uncooled bolometers -- 1.3. Cooled superconducting bolometers -- 1.4. Golay cell -- 1.5. Pyroelectric detector -- 1.6. Discussion and conclusions2. Optical rectification and electrooptic effect-b…
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface from the Institute for Ultrasonic Electronics -- part I. Basic physics and measurements. 1. Ultrasound propagation / Pak-Kon Choi -- 2. Wave propagation in/on liquids and spectroscopy of viscoelasticity and surface tension / Keiji Sakai -- 3. Optical measurements of ultrasonic fields in air/water and ultrasonic vi…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Multimessenger astronomy in practice : celestial sources in action / Miroslav D. Filipovi?c, Jeffrey L Payne and Nicholas F.H. Tothill -- 2. Long-wave (radio) astronomy with coherent detection from radio to THz / Natasha Hurley-Walker, Jeffrey L Payne, Miroslav D. Filipovi?c and Nicholas Tothill -- 3. Long-wave astronom…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-28).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Theory -- 2.2. Methods of gravitational wave detection -- 2.3. LIGO detector description3. Current directions -- 3.1. Noise sources and strain sensitivity -- 3.2. Gravitational wave searches -- 3.3. Gravitational wave astronomy4. Outlook -- 4.1. Ground-based detectors…
"Version: 202109"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to multimessenger astronomy : fusing intellect and technology through telescopes -- 1.1. Dream big -- 1.2. Four astrophysical messengers -- 1.3. A brief history of telescopes : from 1608 to neutrino and gravitational wave telescopes -- 1.4. Locations : from city to space2. Electromagnetic radiation -- 2.1. U…