"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Polarization and directional effects in the radiation of satellites of hydrogenic spectral lines from plasmas and their applications -- 2.1. Satellites under the one-dimensional one-mode monochromatic electric field -- 2.2. Satellites under the one-dimensional two-mode monochromatic electric field --…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Falling bodies and the universality of free fall -- 2. Galileo and free fall3. Newton's pendulum experiment and replications by Bessel and Potter -- 3.1. Newton's pendulum experiment -- 3.2. The experiments of Bes…
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Understanding the inside of the Sun. 1. A glimpse of the solar interior -- 2. The sun as a star -- 3. The role of radiation inside stars -- 4. The nature of star stuff -- 5. Discovering the source of solar energy6. Properties of the matter inside stars -- 6.1. The equation of state -- 6.2. Opacity calculations -- …
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Seeing Saturn and the discoveries of rings -- 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. Interactions with the magnetosphere -- 4.6. The curious case of…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The Kepler mission -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Kepler mission -- 1.3. Obtaining the data -- 1.4. Exoplanet types--demographics -- 1.5. Conclusion2. Earth-sized planets in habitable zones -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Procedure and pedagogy -- 2.3. Analyzing the data -- 2.4. Results -- 2.5. Conclusion3. Calculating th…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals. 1. Lasers and laser light -- 1.1. Why lasers? -- 1.2. Laser action -- 1.3. Laser light -- 1.4. Gaussian beams2. Bandwidth and dispersion -- 2.1. Origins of dispersion -- 2.2. Dispersion, ultrafast pulses, and chirp -- 2.3. Propagation through a dispersive medium -- 2.4. Group delay dispersion -- 2.5.…
"Version: 20150301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Author biography -- Brief theory of photoemission spectroscopy -- Quantum mechanics revisited -- Photoemission spectroscopy as a bound eigenvalue energy probe -- The photoemission process -- The three step mode…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. ISLE and interactive teaching methods -- 1.2. Example of an ISLE process -- 1.3. Elements of the ISLE process and their logical connections -- 1.4. Interlude : when inquiry fails : the need for a framework of epistem…
"Version: 20250901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Simple harmonic motion -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Definition of oscillation -- 1.3. Kinematic of simple harmonic oscillation (SHM) -- 1.4. Oscillation of a particle connected with a light spring -- 1.5. Relation between SHM and uniform circular motion (UCM) -- 1.6. Phase of a particle is SHM -- 1.7. Energy of an osci…
"Version: 20140301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Measurement in antiquity -- Man is the measure of all things -- Seeds and cosmic forces -- The Bronze-Age -- The Roman Empire -- Further readingMeasurement in the early modern period -- 'Measured by the king's iron rod' -- Measuring the wor…