"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Phase space -- 2. Evolution of the phase space distribution function -- 3. Equilibrium distributions -- 4. Ensemble of free particles -- 5. Ensemble of interacting particles -- 6. Temperature -- 7. Pressure, stress and tension -- 8. Entropy -- 9. Gibbs distribution -- 10. Isothermal ensemble -- 11. Free energy -- 12. G…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why this book?2. Amorphous materials via atomic-scale modeling -- 2.1. The inspiring role of Glass Science -- 2.2. From experiments to modelling : toward a connection with atomic-scale tools -- 2.3. Accessing properties : direct and reciprocal space -- 2.4. Describing the network topology -- 2.5. C…
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fusion plasma generalities. 1. Magnetically confined plasma for fusion energy -- 1.1. Worldwide energy needs and fusion plants -- 1.2. Fusion products and energy balance -- 1.3. Magnetic field and confinement -- 1.4. Magnetic mirror and confinement -- 1.5. Plasma as a state of matter -- 1.6. Plasma kinetic theory --…
"Version: 20210301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Overview : magnetised plasma dynamics -- 1.1. Dynamics in plasmas -- 1.2. Magnetised plasmas -- 1.3. Outline of the work2. Introduction to turbulence -- 2.1. Statistical nonlinearity and cascade dynamics -- 2.2. Eddy mitosis and the cascade model -- 2.3. The statistical nature of turbulence -- 2.4. Quadratic …
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-26).Introduction -- The Standard Model and quantum chromodynamics -- Hadrons and the quark model -- Different types of hadrons -- Background -- Understanding hadrons through their quantum numbers -- Discovery of the J/[psi] meson -- Resonances, Breit-Wigner lineshape and phase changes -- Controversy over claimed…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 1.1. Regions of the electromagnetic spectrum -- 1.2. Spectral absorption of water -- 1.3. Spectral absorption of hemoglobin -- 1.4. Problems2. Radiometric properties of light -- 2.1. Energy -- 2.2. Energy density -- 2.3. Power -- 2.4. Temporal power spectrum -- 2.5. Intensity : spatial power s…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental set-up -- 2.1. Tracer particles -- 2.2. Illumination -- 2.3. Area/volume illumination optics -- 2.4. Camera3. Particle image identification -- 3.1. Non-overlapped particles -- 3.2. Overlapped particles -- 3.3. Particle identification comparison4. Identification of particles' spatial loca…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 1.1. Introduction : statistical physics and thermodynamics -- 1.2. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy, and temperature -- 1.3. The 1st and 3rd laws of thermodynamics, and heat capacity -- 1.4. Thermodynamic potentials -- 1.5. Systems with variable number of particles -- 1.6. Thermal mach…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 2. Principles of physical statistics -- 3. Ideal and not-so-ideal gases -- 4. Phase transitions -- 5. Fluctuations -- 6. Elements of kinetics -- Appendices. A. Selected mathematical formulas -- B. Selected physical constants.Essential Advanced Physics is a series comprising four parts: Class…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy counts -- 1.1. Entropy, weight, probability, and information -- 1.2. A combinatorial example -- 1.3. Entropy and the second law -- 1.4. Nature of probability and randomness2. Entropy varies -- 2.1. Entropy of an isolated system -- 2.2. Heat reservoir and the Helmholtz free energy -- 2.3. Various reservoirs -- 2…