"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What are electromagnetic waves? -- 1.1. Electromagnetic (EM) radiation -- 1.2. Characterization of EM waves -- 1.3. Basic properties of EM waves2. Lasers and applying EM wave theory -- 2.1. How does a laser work? -- 2.2. Laser resonator …
"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Concepts in special relativity -- 1.1. Galilean relativity -- 1.2. Inertial frames -- 1.3. Special relativity -- 1.4. Velocity addition, length contraction, and time dilation -- 1.5. Questions2. Tensors in relativity -- 2.1. Motivation -…
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso."Version: 20160601"--Title page verso.EPUB version includes embedded videos.Includes bibliographical references.5. Synthesis and spectrum analysis -- 5.1. Wave mixing and synthesis -- 5.2. Fourier spectrum analysis -- 5.3. Creation by sudden impact -- 5.4. Creation by sudden expansion -- 5.5. Impact spectra -- 5.…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Of gods and waves -- 1.1. Wave anatomy -- 1.2. The wave equation2. Shock waves and the media -- 2.1. Speed of sound in air -- 2.2. Shock front formation3. Impact waves and falling rocks -- 3.1. Mid-air explosions -- 3.2. Meteor strikes -…
"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Foreword -- 1. Maxwell equations -- 1.1. Macroscopic Maxwell equations -- 1.2. Symmetry properties -- 1.3. Harmonic scattering by a bounded obstacle -- 1.4. Covariant formulation -- 1.5. Maxwell equations using forms2. Bloch waves -- 2.1. T…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Oscillation and wave -- 1.2. Oscillation due to elastic force -- 1.3. Frequency domain analysis of oscillation -- 1.4. Wave2. Wave equations and solutions -- 2.1. Wave equation -- 2.2. Wave solutions3. Basic properti…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Waves -- 3. The Special Theory of Relativity -- 4. The General Theory of Relativity -- 4.1. Gravitational radiation -- 5. The life of massive stars -- 5.1. Neutron stars -- 6. Black holes -- 6.1. Some properties of bla…
"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: 20140301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Nonlinearity in classical mechanics -- A pendulum -- Vibration by a nonlinear spring force -- A jumping rope -- Hyperbolic and elliptic functions -- Variation principle -- Buckling deformation of a rodWave propagation, singularities and bou…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Inelastic neutron scattering -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Neutron scattering basics -- 2.3. Some practical considerations -- 2.4. Instruments for INS -- 2.5. Neutron scattering at large user facilities -- 2.6. Exercise…