"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Basics of metrology -- 1.1. Regular or constant errors -- 1.2. Where traceability begins -- 1.3. Judging measurement results -- 1.4. True values and traceability -- 1.5. Consistency -- 1.6. Measuring errors2. Some statistics -- 2.1. Meas…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Force, stress, and mechanical properties in biological systems -- 1.1. Overview2. Mechanics primers and theoretical models for biomaterial characterization -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Force -- 2.3. Stress -- 2.4. Parameters for mechanical p…
"Version: 20191001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Cosmic noise -- 1.1. Radio waves from the sky -- 1.2. The noise of the cosmos2. What is noise? -- 2.1. Deterministic and random signals -- 2.2. Statistical properties of noise -- 2.3. A broad classification of common types of noise -- 2.4. A few comments on the physicist's noise and the mathematician's noise3. Mathemat…
"Version: 20160301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Rays and matrices -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lens -- 1.3. Thick lens2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclotron frequency -- 2.2. Solenoid focusing -- 2.3. Quadr…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Important notes about this book -- 2.1. Anglophone focus -- 2.2. Physics, science, STEM -- 2.3. Gender, sex, gender identity, gender presentation -- 2.4. Women, or women versus men? -- 2.5. Intersectionality -- 2.6. Hors d'oeuvres versus the plated meal -- 2.7. Emotions -- 2.8. My biases3. Supporting…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to the climate problem (short form) -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. It's warming -- 1.3. It's us -- 1.4. We're sure -- 1.5. It's bad -- 1.6. We can fix it (but we'd better hurry) -- 1.7. Chapter conclusions2. Introduction to climate solutions -- 2.1. Chapter introduction -- 2.2. Treat climate like the moral i…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Neurocognitive signatures of prosocial and positive emotional behaviours : emerging research and social impact / Shashikanta Tarai, Roopak Kumar and Arindam Bit -- 2. Processing of emotion and action verbal and non-verbal stimuli : neural signatures in the human brain / Shashikanta Tarai, Tulika Ghosh and Arindam Bit -- …
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Koestler's law of creativity. 1. What, precisely, is creativity? -- 1.1. Some dictionary definitions -- 1.2. My 'sound-bite' definition--just five words -- 1.3. Ideas as outcomes, ideas as questions -- 1.4. Invention and discovery -- 1.5. What's missing from the sound-bite? -- 1.6. What is 'new'? -- 1.7. It's diff…
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Computing disciplines ecosystem and origin of research -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Computing disciplines -- 1.3. Comparing the focus of the seven disciplines within the computing ecosystem -- 1.4. Scientific research in computing -- 1.5. Research philosophy and origin of research in computing -- 1.6. Comparing researc…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Creative thinking in physics -- 1.1. The relevance of creative thinking -- 1.2. Physics : cold comfort farm or possibility place? -- 1.3. Creative students? -- 1.4. Creative thinking doesn't come with a guarantee -- 1.5. Variety, the spice of physics teaching -- 1.6. Does it matter? -- 1.7. Something to reflect on2. Th…