"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The principles of modern thermodynamics -- 1.1. A phenomenological theory of heat and work -- 1.2. The advent of Stochastic Thermodynamics -- 1.3. Foundations of statistical physics from quantum entanglement -- 1.4. Work, heat, and entro…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Classical field theory -- 1.1. Lagrangian formalism for fields -- 1.2. The Klein-Gordon field -- 1.3. The electromagnetic field -- 1.4. Lorentz invariance -- 1.5. Transformation of fields under Lorentz transformations -- 1.6. Noether's t…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The transition probability amplitude -- 1.2. Derivation of the quantum mechanical path integral -- 1.3. Path integral in terms of the Lagrangian -- 1.4. Computing simple path integra…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. QCD phenomenology -- 1.1. Electron-muon scattering -- 1.2. Form factors -- 1.3. Elastic electron-proton scattering and the proton form factors -- 1.4. Inelastic electron-proton scattering -- 1.5. The parton model and Bjorken scaling -- 1…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A brief history of gravitational radiation -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Sources of gravitational radiation -- 1.3. Gravitational waves from general relativity -- 1.4. Background reading2. General theoretical considerations about the cosm…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Sampling -- 1.2. Random-number generators2. The Metropolis algorithm -- 2.1. Importance sampling -- 2.2. Classical liquids -- 2.3. Block algorithms3. Variational Monte Carlo -- 3.1. Variational principle -…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Appendix A. Relevant results from linear algebra -- Appendix B. Directory of definitions and notation.Preface -- 1. Postulates -- 1.1. State space -- 1.2. Time evolution -- 1.3. Quantum measurement -- 1.4. Composite systems -- 1.5. The geni…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The continuum Universe -- 1.1. The right use of x[square] : describing a continuum2. Everything is a wave -- 2.1. Waves in what medium : waves made of what stuff? -- 2.2. Evidence for waves -- 2.3. Early clues to the size and nature of a…
"Version: 20250601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. General relativity essentials -- 1.1. Equivalence principle -- 1.2. Relativistic mechanics -- 1.3. Differential geometry primer -- 1.4. Curvature tensor -- 1.5. The stress-energy-momentum tensor -- 1.6. Einstein's equation -- 1.7. Killing vectors and maximally symmetric spaces -- 1.8. The Hilbert-Einstein action -- 1.9…
Revised edition of: Airborne radioactive discharges and human health effects : an introduction. [2019]."Version: 20240601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Radiation physics and structure of matter -- 1.1. The structure of the atom -- 1.2. Mass, atomic numbers and isotopes -- 1.3. Ionising radiation -- 1.4. Mechanism of radioactive decay -- 1.5. Decay chains and equilibr…