"Version: 20150301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author biographyTokamak MHD equilibrium -- The Grad-Shafranov equation -- Toroidal flux coordinates -- The tokamak force balance : the hoop forceIdeal MHD instabilities -- The global MHD spectrum -- Internal an…
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Prologue -- Some scientific preliminaries -- The Manhattan Project : a surveyThe background science -- Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes -- The neutron, artificial radioact…
"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: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Into the B world -- 1.1. Heavy particles -- 1.2. Weak liaison -- 1.3. Frontiers2. Into the mirror -- 2.1. C and P -- 2.2. Strange particles -- 2.3. Humans, not antihumans3. Down the rabbit hole -- 3.1. Accelerating science -- 3.2. Quantu…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Completion of the Standard Model -- 1.2. New Physics: phenomena beyond the Standard Model -- 1.3. Three frontiers in experimental particle physics -- 1.4. Advantages of e+e- colliders2. International Linear Collider …
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The Standard Model of Particle Physics -- 1. Historical overview of particle physics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Photons -- 1.3. Electrons -- 1.4. Protons -- 1.5. Neutrons -- 1.6. Neutrinos -- 1.7. Positrons -- 1.8. Muons -- 1.9. P…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Neutrinos in the Standard Model -- 2.1. Beta decays, Pauli and missing energy -- 2.2. The Standard Model and electroweak physics -- 2.3. A first look at neutrino masses -- 2.4. A flavour of symmetry3. Neutrino oscillat…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Quantum tunnelling devices -- 1.3. Negative differential conductance -- 1.4. Nonlinear dynamics -- 1.5. Optoelectronic integrated circuits -- 1.6. Outline2. Quantum tunnelling -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Negative differential resistance -- 2.3. Calculating the transmission pro…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction for beginners. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens desing -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and t…
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Some recent advances -- 1.3. Motivations -- 1.4. Features and potential advantages of metalenses2. Basics of metalens optics -- 2.1. Optics of metasurfaces -- 2.2. Metalens phase profile -- 2.3. Relationship with the classical lens -- 2.4. Meta-atoms -- 2.5. Lens equat…