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The manhattan project
The development of nuclear weapons by the Manhattan Project during World War II was one of the most dramatic scientific/technological episodes in human history. This book offers a concise survey of the essential physics concepts underlying fission weapons. It describes the energetics and timescal...
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Graphene optics: electromagnetic solution of canonical problems
This book is a rigorous but concise macroscopic description of the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and structures containing graphene sheets (two-dimensional structures). It presents canonical problems with translational invariant geometries, in which the solution of the original ve...
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Nanoparticle (np)-based delivery vehicles
Nanoparticle (NP)-Based Delivery Vehicles looks at smart nanostructures and how these are considered a promising approach when applied to drug- and gene-delivery systems, in addition to how to solve the problems related to the inefficient transfer of medication to the affected cells.
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Atoms and photons and quanta, oh my!
This is the second book in the Ask the Physicist series. The first book, From Newton to Einstein: Ask the Physicist About Mechanics and Relativity, provides an excellent foundation for this book which covers topics in ‘modern’ physics. The main emphasis of this volume is providing an accessible i...
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An introduction to plasma physics and its space applications, volume 1
This introductory text is an expanded version of class notes and lectures that the author used to teach students of aerospace engineering and physics for several years. Covering the basic kinetic theory of neutral gases in equilibrium, as well as the physical description of plasmas as a statistic...
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Selective photonic disinfection
Pathogens such as viruses and bacteria are among the greatest threats to human health worldwide. In today’s era of population growth and international travel, new technologies are desperately needed to combat the spread of known and emerging pathogens. This book presents a new concept for pathoge...
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Fourier transform and its applications using microsoft excel®
This book demonstrates Microsoft EXCEL®-based Fourier transform of selected physics examples, as well as describing spectral density of the auto-regression process in relation to Fourier transform. Rather than offering rigorous mathematics, the book provides readers with an opportunity to gain an...
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Nuclear power
This book looks at the early history of nuclear power, at what happened next, and at its longer-term prospects. The main question is: can nuclear power overcome the problems that have emerged? It was once touted as the ultimate energy source, freeing mankind from reliance on dirty, expensive foss...
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String theory and the real world
This book attempts to explain why "string theory" may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories (plus data that may be reachable) seem to have the possibilities of leading to a comprehensive ...
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Confocal microscopy
The confocal microscope is appropriate for imaging cells or the measurement of industrial artefacts. However, junior researchers and instrument users sometimes misuse imaging concepts and metrological characteristics, such as position resolution in industrial metrology and scale resolution in bio...
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Run in the light
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder with cardinal motor signs of resting tremor, bradykinesia and lead-pipe rigidity. In addition, many patients display non-motor symptoms, including a diminished sensation of smell, gastrointestinal problems, various disorders of sleep and some cogniti...
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Single molecule biophysics and poisson process approach to statistical mechanics
This is an overview of single molecule physics, the study of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties at the single molecule level. It begins with an introduction to this fascinating science and includes a chapter on how to build the most popular instrument for single molecule biophysics, ...
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An introduction to quantum monte carlo methods
This book focuses on the diffusion and path-integral quantum Monte Carlo methods in many-body physics and provides a concise but complete introduction to the Metropolis algorithm and its applications. Several quantum many-body systems are analyzed within and studied in detail. The book includes ex...
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Electrodynamics
This book of problems and solutions is a natural continuation of Ilie and Schrecengost’s first book, Electromagnetism: Problems and solutions. Aimed towards students who would like to work independently on more electrodynamics problems in order to deepen their understanding and problem-solving sk...
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Introduction to the mathematical physics of nonlinear waves
Nonlinear physics today is a well established discipline of physics, for which this book offers a comprehensive account of soliton theory and its applications. Designed as a textbook for use in advanced physics courses, Introduction to the Mathematical Physics of Nonlinear Waves is readable with ...
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Stimuli-responsive polymers
This book provides a general introduction to nanogels and the design of various stimuli-sensitive nanogels that can control drug release in response to specific stimuli. Formed by physically or chemically crosslinking polymers, nanogels are three-dimensional nanosized networks. They have highly i...
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Basic surfaces and their analysis
“God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.” This statement by Nobel prize winner Wolfgang Paul emphasizes the diabolic nature of surfaces. Since surface properties deviate significantly from the bulk solid state, surface studies can be puzzling, misleading, and quite exciting! Thi...
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The mössbauer effect
The Mössbauer effect was discovered by, and named after, Rudolf Mössbauer at the Technical University of Munich in 1958. It soon became apparent that Mössbauer spectroscopy had applications in a variety of fields, such as general relativity, solid state physics, chemistry, materials science, biol...
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Ionization and ion transport
This book provides an introduction for engineering and science students to the basic underlying physics and chemistry concepts that form the foundation of plasma science and engineering. It is a bridge for students who have no background in the topic by providing an understanding of what an ion i...
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Introduction to focused ion beam nanometrology
This book describes modern focused ion beam microscopes and techniques and how they can be used to aid materials metrology and as tools for the fabrication of devices that in turn are used in many other aspects of fundamental metrology.
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Quantifying measurement
Measurements and experiments are made each and every day, but have you ever wondered why it is that a particular experiment has been designed to be the way it is? Anyone who is interested in the relationship between the precision and accuracy of measurements will find this volume useful. Whether ...
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From complex to simple
This book presents simple interdisciplinary stochastic models meant as a gentle introduction to the field of non-equilibrium statistical physics. It focuses on the analysis of two-state models with cooperative effects and explores a variety of mathematical techniques to solve the master equations...
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Transformations of materials
Phase transformations are among the most intriguing and technologically useful phenomena in materials, particularly with regard to controlling microstructure. After a review of thermodynamics, this book contains chapters on Brownian motion and the diffusion equation, diffusion in solids based on ...
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An introduction to chemical kinetics
This book is intended to give a relatively concise introduction to the main principles of chemical kinetics at a level suitable for any undergraduate chemistry student. Elementary reactions and their rates are introduced and explained using Simple Collision Theory. Rate laws and reaction mechanis...
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The most interesting galaxies in the universe
Prior to the 1920s it was generally thought, with a few exceptions, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire universe. Based on the work of Henrietta Leavitt with Cepheid variables, astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that others had to lie outside our own. This books looks at 60 ...
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Advanced tokamak stability theory
This book describes the advanced stability theories for magnetically confined fusion plasmas, especially in tokamaks. As the fusion plasma sciences advance, the gap between the textbooks and cutting-edge researches gradually develops. This book fills in this gap. It focuses on the advanced topics...
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Sonic thunder
The study of shock-wave formation and dynamics begins with a study of waves, themselves. Simple harmonic motion is used to analyze the physical mechanisms of wave generation and propagation, and the principle of superposition is used to mathematically generate constructive and destructive interfe...
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Dark matter in the universe
This book reviews the history behind the discovery of missing mass (or unseen mass) in the universe, and ties this into the proposed extensions to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (such as Supersymmetry), which were being proposed within the same time frame. It is written as an introduction...
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Semiconductor integrated optics for switching light
This book covers the technology of switching or modulating light in semiconductor optical waveguides. Currently, a key function for optical communications systems is the conversion of data from an electrical signal to an optical signal for transmission in very low loss optical fibres and the conv...
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Sterile neutrino dark matter
This book is a new look at one of the hottest topics in contemporary science – dark matter. It is the pioneering text dedicated to sterile neutrinos as candidate particles for dark matter, challenging some of the standard assumptions that may be true for some dark-matter candidates, but not for a...
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Physics of the lorentz group
This book explains the Lorentz mathematical group in a language familiar to physicists. While the three-dimensional rotation group is one of the standard mathematical tools in physics, the Lorentz group of the four-dimensional Minkowski space is still very strange to most present-day physicists. ...
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The physics of emergence
This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions. Examining several detailed case studies reveals resu...
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Lectures on selected topics in mathematical physics: elliptic functions and elliptic integrals
This volume is a basic introduction to certain aspects of elliptic functions and elliptic integrals that has evolved as part of the first semester of a course on theoretical and mathematical methods given to first- and second-year graduate students in physics and chemistry at the University of No...
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Introduction to the kinetics of glow discharges
Electric glow discharges (glows) can be found almost everywhere, from atmospheric electricity to modern plasma technologies, and have long been the object of research. The main purpose of this book is to provide simple illustrations of the basic physical mechanisms and principles that determine t...
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Leonhard euler's letters to a german princess
Leonhard Euler’s Letters to a German Princess: A milestone in the history of physics textbooks and more examines the life and work of Euler and his legacy as the foremost mathematician, theoretical physicist and theoretical astronomer during the 18th-century Enlightenment. Over two years, from 17...
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Essential classical mechanics for device physics
Continued advances in the precision manufacturing of new structures at the nanometer scale have provided unique opportunities for device physics. This book sets out to summarize those elements of classical mechanics most applicable for scientists and engineers studying device physics. Supplementa...
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Explicit symmetry breaking in electrodynamic systems and electromagnetic radiation
This book is an introduction to the concept of symmetries in electromagnetism and explicit symmetry breaking. It begins with a brief background to the origin of the concept of symmetry and its meaning in fields such as architecture, mathematics and physics. Despite the extensive developments of s...
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Extragalactic astrophysics
Extragalactic Astrophysics synthesizes the most important topics in the field of extragalactic astrophysics at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level, providing the reader with the foundation and tools for research in any of these areas. It attempts to cover a broad range of topics for a g...
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Outside the research lab, volume 1
This book is written for students and other interested readers as a look inside the diverse range of applications for physics outside of the scientific research environment. This first volume covers several different areas of the arts and design ranging from stage lighting to sculpting. The autho...
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Relativity, symmetry and the structure of the quantum theory
The history of how quantum mechanics was developed is a fascinating one and underlies the focus of this book; namely, given the rules that the founders of quantum mechanics developed, is it possible to find principles that lead to the structure of quantum mechanics as it was historically formulat...
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Advances in nanomaterials for drug delivery
Nanomedicine is a developing field that includes different disciplines such as material science, chemistry, and engineering and medicine devoted to the design, synthesis and construction of high-tech nanostructures. The ability of these structures to have their chemical and physical properties tu...
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The everyday physics of hearing and vision
Humans receive the vast majority of sensory perception through the eyes and ears. This non-technical book examines the everyday physics behind hearing and vision to help readers understand more about themselves and their physical environment. It begins with a thorough discussion of sound and ligh...
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Ads/cft correspondence in condensed matter
This book introduces, in an elementary way, the idea of the anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to condensed matter physicists. This theory relates a gravity theory in a (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space time to a strongly coupled d-dimensional quantum field theory...
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Lattice boltzmann modeling of complex flows for engineering applications
Nature continuously presents a huge number of complex and multiscale phenomena, which in many cases, involve the presence of one or more fluids flowing, merging and evolving around us. Since the very first years of the third millennium, the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has seen an exponential g...
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Novel microstructures for solids
Until the 1980s, experimental evidence suggested that virtually all solid materials were either amorphous or ordered three-dimensional structures with translational and rotational symmetry that were described by classical crystallographic concepts. Since then, a number of structures that stretch ...
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After the war
This book examines the lives and contributions of American women physicists who were active in the years following World War II, during the middle decades of the 20th century. It covers the strategies they used to survive and thrive in a time where their gender was against them. The percentage of...
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Kinematic labs with mobile devices
This book provides 13 labs spanning the common topics in the first semester of university-level physics. Each lab is designed to use only the student's smartphone, laptop and items easily found in big-box stores or a hobby shop. Each lab contains theory, set-up instructions and basic analysis tec...
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