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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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Spiral structure in galaxies
How does it happen that billions of stars can co-operate to produce the beautiful spirals that characterize so many galaxies, including ours? This book reviews the history behind the discovery of spiral galaxies and the problems faced when trying to explain the existence of spiral structure withi...
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Introduction to the physics of the cryosphere
Introduction to the Physics of the Cryosphere is intended for graduates with a numerical sciences background, particularly those who are heading towards postgraduate study or are generally interested in environmental physics. Conservation equations underpin the physics encompassed in this book, a...
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B factories
This book is an introductory text to physics laws of the CP asymmetry, touching on experimental requirements needed to perform such measurements at the subatomic level, and illustrating the main findings of the contemporary B factories. Deviations between the experimental results and predictions ...
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The molecule as meme
This volume explores the concept of the molecule as a meme, or idea, that had been accepted in the chemistry community and then diffused outwards into the wider scientific community creating a new field of science, physical chemistry.
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Earthquakes
This book is an introduction to wave dynamics as they apply to earthquakes, among the scariest, most unpredictable, and deadliest natural phenomena on Earth. The text starts with a discussion of types and representations, including wave-generation mechanics, superposition, and spectral analysis. ...
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Magnetically confined fusion plasma physics
This book describes the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory for magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Advanced topics are presented in an attempt to fill the gap between up-to-date research developments and plasma physics textbooks. Each topic is self-contained and trackable, with the mathemat...
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Waves
Waves: Fundamentals and dynamics discusses the various aspects of wave dynamics from many different perspectives. The main topics include the fundamentals of oscillations and waves, the big picture of wave dynamics as a propagation of oscillation, the mathematical aspects of waves, the various pr...
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A brief introduction to topology and differential geometry in condensed matter physics
In recent years, there have been great advances in the applications of topology and differential geometry to problems in condensed matter physics. Concepts drawn from topology and geometry have become essential to the understanding of several phenomena in the area. The main purpose of this book i...
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Excel® vba for physicists
This book is both an introduction and a demonstration of how Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) can greatly enhance Microsoft Excel® by giving users the ability to create their own functions within a worksheet and to create subroutines to perform repetitive actions. The book is written so reader...
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Modelling physics with microsoft excel®
This book demonstrates some of the ways in which Microsoft Excel® may be used to solve numerical problems in the field of physics. But why use Excel in the first place? Certainly, Excel is never going to out-perform the wonderful symbolic algebra tools that we have today – Mathematica, Mathcad, M...
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The physics and art of photography, volume 2
This volume covers basic photographic subjects such as shutter, aperture, ISO, metering and exposure value, as well as less familiar topics such as the Jones-Condit equation, Lambertian versus isotropic reflections, reflection and response curves, and the opponent-process model of color perceptio...
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Numerical calculation for physics laboratory projects using microsoft excel®
This book may be used as a companion for introductory laboratory courses, as well as possible STEM projects. It covers essential Microsoft EXCEL® computational skills while analyzing introductory physics projects. Topics of numerical analysis include: multiple graphs on the same sheet, calculatio...
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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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Elementary cosmology
Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it is based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific understanding of the Universe in Western tradition is...
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Theories of matter, space and time, volume 2
This book and its prequel, Theories of Matter Space and Time: Classical theories, Volume 1, grew out of courses that are taught by the authors on the undergraduate degree program in physics at Southampton University, UK. The authors aim to guide the full MPhys undergraduate cohort through some of...
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Neutron stars, black holes and gravitational waves
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity made a remarkable prediction: gravitational radiation. Just like light, gravity could travel through space as a wave and affect any objects it encounters by alternately compressing and expanding them. However, these waves were so difficult to detect ...
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Recent advances in innovative magnetic nanomaterials for cancer theranostics
This book provides a detailed overview of cancer theranostics applications of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Their synthesis, characterization, multifunctionality, disease targeting, biodistribution, pharmacokinetics and toxicity are highlighted, along with current examples of clinical trials...
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Exploring physics with computer animation and physgl
This book shows how the web-based PhysGL programming environment (http://physgl.org) can be used to teach and learn elementary mechanics (physics) using simple coding exercises. The book's theme is that the lessons encountered in such a course can be used to generate physics-based animations, pro...
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Physics and the environment
Physics and the Environment directly connects the physical world to environmental issues that the world is facing today and will face in the future. It shows how the first and second laws of thermodynamics limit the efficiencies of fossil-fuel energy conversions to less than 100%, while also disc...
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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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Guide through the nanocarbon jungle
This practical guide to nanocarbon terminology is in a glossary format with more than 300 entries, 100 figures and 2000 cross references helps to quickly identify relevant information for most topics related to nanocarbons.
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Capture and relaxation in self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots
This is an overview of different models and mechanisms developed to describe the capture and relaxation of carriers in quantum-dot systems. Despite their undisputed importance, the mechanisms leading to population and energy exchanges between a quantum dot and its environment are not yet fully un...
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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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Science and computing with raspberry pi
The portable Raspberry Pi computing platform with the power of Linux yields an exciting exploratory tool for beginning scientific computing. Science and Computing with Raspberry Pi takes the reader through explorations in a variety of computing exercises with the physical sciences. The book guide...
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Of clocks and time
Of Clocks and Time takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology – and occasional bits of applications and history – of timekeeping. The author offers conceptual vistas and qualitative images, along with equations, quantitative relations, and rigorous definitions. The bo...
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Topological insulators
This book provides an introduction to topological matter, with a focus on insulating bulk systems. After introducing prerequisite concepts and tools, the book discusses realistic models for both time-reversal-preserving and -violating topological insulators, as well as their characteristic respon...
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Relativistic quantum field theory, volume 3
Volume 3 of this three-part series presents more advanced topics and applications of relativistic quantum field theory. The application of quantum chromodynamics to high-energy particle scattering is discussed, and experimental evidence for the existence of quarks and gluons is presented within t...
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Elements of photoionization quantum dynamics methods
This book focuses on the RMT approach to multiphoton quantum dynamics, which is employed to tackle the problem of laser-induced atomic dynamics. This recently developed formulation has shown the potential to become a mainstream ab initio theoretical approach, which is capable of describing the qu...
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Beyond curie
In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss b...
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Fluids in porous media
This book introduces the reader to the field of the physics of processes occurring in porous media. It gives brief overviews of topics such as thermodynamics, capillarity and fluid mechanics in order to launch the reader smoothly into the realm of porous media. In-depth discussions are given of p...
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Lectures on selected topics in mathematical physics: introduction to lie theory with applications
This book provides an introduction to Lie theory for first-year graduate students and professional physicists who may not have come across the theory in their studies. It is an overview of the theory of finite groups, a brief description of a manifold, and an informal development of the theory of...
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High power microwave tubes: volume 1
Volume 1 of the book describes the historical timeline of the development of MWTs, the high-frequency limitations of traditional electron tubes, means of overcoming them and the factors making MWTs superior to solid-state devices.
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Comets in the 21st century
Have you ever seen a comet? It is a marvelous experience, one that spawns a deep yearning to understand the spectacle. Have you ever wondered what comets are and why astronomers spend so much time studying them? Now, a comet expert and an astronomical historian have come together to produce this ...
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Nonlinear waves
Interesting to anybody who wants to unearth the real sense and nature of solitary waves, and the relevant mathematical tools to use for effective investigation and analysis of these phenomena, the text focuses on numerical analysis of solitons. The integrability and multidimensionality of soliton...
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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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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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Essential fluid dynamics - for scientists
The book is an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well as from everyday experience. Prior familiar...
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Classical field theory and the stress–energy tensor
This book is a concise introduction to the key concepts of classical field theory for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who wish to study the unifying structures and physical insights provided by classical field theory without dealing with the additional complication...
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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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Optics
The study of light has been an important part of science from its beginning. The ancient Greeks and, prior to the Middle Ages, Islamic scholars provided important insights. With the coming of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, optics, in the shape of telescopes and microsco...
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Entrepreneurship for physicists
This book offers a concise analysis of the key ingredients that enable physicists to successfully move their idea from university to market, bringing added value to their customers. It dives into a set of theories, models, and tools that play fundamental roles in technology transfer including top...
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Measuring nothing, repeatedly
There have been many recent discussions of the replication crisis in psychology and other social sciences. This has been attributed, in part, to the fact that researchers hesitate to submit null results and journals fail to publish such results. In this book, Allan Franklin and Ronald Laymon anal...
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Keplerian ellipses
The development of man's understanding of planetary motions is the crown jewel of Newtonian mechanics. This book offers a concise but self-contained treatment of this historically important topic. After opening with a review of Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion, it proceeds to analyze the ...
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Thermal properties of matter
The ancient Greeks believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. Today, we know that there are four states of matter that are remarkably similar: solids (e.g.earth), liquids (e.g. water), gasses (e.g. air), and plasma (e.g. ionized gas produced by fire). Thi...
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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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Lasers and their application to the observation of bose–einstein condensates
The first part of this text provides an overview of the physics of lasers and it describes some of the more common types of lasers and their applications. The second part of then describes the phenomenon of Bose–Einstein condensation.
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Tying light in knots
Topology is the study of properties of geometrical objects that remain invariant as the object is bent, twisted, or otherwise continuously deformed. It has been an indispensable tool in particle physics and solid-state physics for decades, but in recent years it has become increasingly relevant i...
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