"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Waves -- 3. The Special Theory of Relativity -- 4. The General Theory of Relativity -- 4.1. Gravitational radiation -- 5. The life of massive stars -- 5.1. Neutron stars -- 6. Black holes -- 6.1. Some properties of bla…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Roller-coaster comets -- 2.1. The paths of comets -- 2.2. Two kinds of comets -- 2.3. Celestial clockwork -- 2.4. A Universe in motion -- 2.5. The gravity of the situation -- 2.6. Looping comets -- 2.7. Orbits of your …
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Spherical coordinates--a review -- 1.1. Fundamental definitions -- 1.2. Spherical coordinate unit vectors -- 1.3. Time-derivatives of spherical coordinate unit vectors -- 1.4. Some useful integrals2. Dynamical quantities in spherical coo…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The four forces and the geometric Universe -- 1.2. QFT + GR -- 1.3. Cosmological evolution -- 1.4. Black holes and holographic scaling2. ADM mass and holographic scaling in general physics -- 2.1. Vector notation and…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Seeing Saturn -- 3. Why are there moons and rings?4. A menagerie of moons -- 4.1. The inner mid-sized icy moons -- 4.2. Impacts and craters -- 4.3. Synchronous rotation -- 4.4. Icy satellite tectonics -- 4.5. Interacti…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The Andromeda Galaxy -- 1.1. An introduction to Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy -- 1.2. Observations of M31 -- 1.3. M31's globular cluster system2. Globular clusters in the Milky Way -- 2.1. An introduction to globular star clusters -- …
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- 1. The need for dark matter -- 2. The formation of structure and dark matter in Galaxies -- 3. Cold dark matter, hot dark matter, and their alternatives4. Types of dark matter -- 4.1. WIMPs…
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Preliminary concepts. 1. The overall picture -- 1.1. The atomistic structure of matter -- 1.2. The quantum nature of physical laws -- 1.3. Subtleties of the quantum picture -- 1.4. The dual nature of physical phenomena2. Essential quantum mechanics -- 2.1. The wavefunction -- 2.2. Quantum operators -- 2.3. The unc…
"Version: 20250101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Supplementary reading -- 1.2. Aims and philosophy -- 1.3. Prerequisites -- 1.4. Conventions and notation2. Symmetries (discrete and continuous) -- 2.1. Beta decay -- 2.2. Parity violation in weak interactions -- 2.3. Parity violation in [beta]-decay -- 2.4. V-A formulation of the weak currents -- 2…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The history of resonance fluorescence -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Atomic resonance fluorescence -- 1.3. The Heisenberg linewidth and recoil energy -- 1.4. The early history of nuclear resonance fluorescence -- 1.5. Problems2. The M?ossbauer effect -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Discovery of the M?ossbauer effect -- 2.3.…