Climate change resilience in the urban environment

This book provides a detailed overview of the risks associated with climate change for urban areas, including those risks to human health as well as to building integrity, the physical processes involved, and presents key information in which way the risks can be reduced and urban areas made more...

Quantum mechanics: lecture notes

Quantum Mechanics: Lecture notes is intended to be the basis for a two-semester, graduate-level course. It includes chapters on quantum computation and cryptography, as well as quantum measurements and the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

One physicist's guide to nuclear weapons

One Physicist’s Guide to Nuclear Weapons presents a truly global look at the history, use, and issues surrounding nuclear weapons from the perspective of physicist and writer Jeremy Bernstein. A first-hand witness to the development and science of nuclear weapons, he is in a unique position to hi...

Backscattering sources, volume 1

Aimed at those entering the field for the first time, this first volume provides a background in classical electromagnetism and relativity to facilitate the understanding of Thomson and Compton backscattering phenomena.

Phytochemicals as an epigenetic modifier in cancer prevention

Phytochemical-based cancer therapeutics by targeting epigenetic and cell signalling.

Inverse imaging with poisson data

Inverse Imaging with Poisson Data is an invaluable resource for graduate students, postdocs and researchers interested in the application of inverse problems to the domains of applied sciences, such as microscopy, medical imaging and astronomy.

The everyday physics of hearing and vision (second edition)

This non-technical book examines the everyday physics behind hearing and vision to help readers understand more about themselves and their physical environment. New topics in the second edition include hearing and vision aids, electron microscopy, the third eye (pineal body), vision and hearing g...

Composites engineering: an a–z guide

Composites Engineering: An A–Z Guide provides a quick and accessible reference to composites terminologies. Comprehensive without being overly detailed, it fills a gap for an accessible reference text of composites engineering terms and concepts. It is ideal for composites scientists and engineer...

The physics of emergence (second edition)

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. It would be suitable for physicists, scientists, und...

Blockchain-based peer-to-peer transactions in energy systems

Blockchain-based Peer-to-Peer Transactions in Energy Systems begins with an introduction to blockchain technology, which covers cryptographic hashing, Merkle trees, types of blockchain and common consensus mechanisms. It discusses selected real-world blockchains and their real-world applications....

Superconducting materials and their applications

This book provides a popular account of superconductivity and its applications for an interdisciplinary audience, including new entrants in this fascinating subject. It covers the characteristics of superconducting materials, particularly those with commercial applications, including MRI, MEG, hi...

Tearing mode dynamics in tokamak plasmas

This comprehensive research and reference text aims to outline a realistic, comprehensive, self-consistent, analytic theory of tearing mode dynamics in tokamak plasmas.

Classical mechanics: lecture notes

Classical Mechanics: Lecture notes, is intended to be the basis for a one-semester graduate-level course on classical mechanics and dynamics, including the mechanics of continua, in particular deformations, elasticity, waves, and fluid dynamics.

Electromagnetism and special methods for electric circuits analysis

This textbook presents the second part of the Electricity and Magnetism (E&M) course, focusing onto classical electrodynamics, a branch of theoretical physics studying phenomena related to moving electric charges and the interactions between electromagnetic field and electric charges.

Wide bandgap semiconductor-based electronics

This state-of-the-art reference text provides comprehensive coverage of the challenges and latest research in wide and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors. Leading researchers from around the world provide reviews on the latest development of materials and devices in these systems.

Mott insulators

This text introduces the subject of Mott insulators and reviews present knowledge in the field, enabling students and researchers to get acquainted with this very interesting and emerging area of science and technology.

Electrochemical energy storage devices and supercapacitors

This book provides a comprehensive account of the fundamental aspects of electrochemical energy storage devices. Electrochemical properties of materials and performance assessment parameters are discussed alongside an analysis of their potential commercial applications. This book is ideal for und...

Techniques of classical mechanics

This book serves as an excellent stepping stone from introductory physics to graduate-level physics, it provides a level field for the various techniques used to solve problems in classical mechanics, it explains the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods more simply, and is a must for junior and sen...

Flexible electronics, volume 2

This volume focuses on thin-film transistors (TFTs) and their properties, as well as covering field effect transistors (FETs), including electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors such as EGOFETs and OECFETs.

Modelling and analysis of active biopotential signals in healthcare, volume 2

This book describes the sources and characteristics of different biopotential signals and provides an understanding of how a range of signals can be modelled and analysed for a number of applications. It is a valuable guide for all researchers and practitioners who are engaged in studies and rese...

Biopolymer networks

This reference text provides a comprehensive overview of biopolymer networks written for an interdisciplinary audience of researchers in physics, biophysics, cell biology, materials science, engineering, and chemistry.

Advances in modelling and analysis of functionally graded micro- and nanostructures

This book brings together the latest research and developments in the area of bending, buckling and vibration analysis of functionally graded nano and microstructures. It is essential material for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in mechanical & civil engineering, applied mat...

Ultrasound-mediated imaging of soft materials

Ultrasound-mediated imaging in scattering media has deep roots in condensed matter physics. This book explores these roots and provides a comprehensive review of imaging with light and ultrasound, focusing mainly on recovery of mechanical contrasts. It is suitable reference material for graduate ...

Energy from nuclear fusion

Building on a scientifically-grounded account of the physics, Prof. Dunlap’s book explores a range of issues relevant to nuclear fusion and its role in solving the energy problem. Energy from Nuclear Fusion bridges the gap between descriptive texts and those intended for specialists, providing an...

Algorithms for noise reduction in signals

Statistics and convolutional analysis for noise reduction in periodic signals. Practical applications to recovering the amplitude, frequency, and phase information in environments with high noise density.

Computational methods using matlab®

This book provides an introduction to the computational methods commonly employed by physicists and engineers. The book discusses the details of the numerical algorithms involved and also provides MATLAB code for their implementation. The book is suitable for undergraduates in physics or engineer...

Optics experiments and demonstrations for student laboratories

This book on the laboratory teaching of optics is based on the author’s experience during many years in several universities and colleges. It describes basic experiments in optics that are suitable for student laboratories at undergraduate and graduate levels and do not require specialized equipm...

Photocatalysts for energy and environmental sustainability

This reference text covers the fundamentals and applications of various types of photocatalyst materials, including metal oxides, rare earth doped oxides, phosphor coupled metal oxides, nanocomposites and perovskite/metal organic frameworks for wastewater treatment and the hydrogen evolution proc...

The physics of sound and music, volume 1

This first volume of ‘The Physics of Sound and Music: A complete course text’ is a textbook providing a complete resource to accompany undergraduate courses on the physics of sound and music. It contains all the material needed for a one semester, 14 week, four-credit hour-long course, and is sup...

Networks on networks (second edition)

Treating soil as a physical network allows a better understanding of the biological networks based in the soil as well as enhanced accuracy of the prediction of the water cycle, the carbon cycle, soil physical properties, and plant species richness. This improvement in prediction addresses one of...

Analytical advances in quantum and celestial mechanics

This book is primarily devoted to recent advances in applying the approximate analytical method of the separation of rapid and slow subsystems to other quantum realms. These results are practically important in the quest for achieving controlled nuclear fusion on Earth, as well as expanding pract...

Challenges in risk analysis for science and engineering

This book collates case studies outlining solutions to shared challenges in risk assessment to enable cross-disciplinary collaboration and ultimately contribute to improvement of risk assessment methodology. Detailed practical examples of risk assessment from across science and engineering are ex...

Nuclear and particle physics with cosmology, volume 2

The topics of nuclear physics, particle physics and cosmology are closely connected. As the second volume of a two-volume set, this book covers particle physics and cosmology. Chapters exploring particle physics describe the standard model of particle physics and deal with the classification of t...

Lithium niobate-based heterostructures

This book explores the fundamental principles of fabricating LiNbO₃-based heterostructures, delving into their properties and the electron phenomena that drive their effective application in a range of devices.

Rare-earth-free ferrimagnetic mn4n spintronics

The book provides the latest research trends on ferrimagnetic Mn4N-based thin films that have a magnetic compensation composition at room temperature and achieve ultrafast current-induced magnetic domain wall motion.

Quantum computation and quantum information simulation using python

A step-by-step, self-paced guide to quantum computation with detailed background physics and programming codes by Python, suitable for senior and graduate students of physics, computer science, and mathematics who want to learn and write quantum codes.

Problems and solutions in many-particle systems

Many-particle systems play a fundamental role in physics where we encounter systems of molecules or systems of elementary particles in quantum field theory. overing a wide range of topics and including more than 400 problems and solutions, this book is an ideal resource for students specialising ...

Solution-processed solar cells

This book emphasizes on materials development, device engineering, working mechanism aspects of emerging solution-processed solar cell technology. It further delves into their performance and reliability improvement studies and associated challenges.

The possibility of earthquake forecasting

This book uses a holistic approach to address the problems of earthquake forecasting, demonstrating the earthquake preparation process as a complex system that relies on the interaction of different geospheres. The purpose of the book is to widen the understanding of the earthquake preparation pr...

Engineering electrodynamics

Engineering Electrodynamics: A collection of theorems, principles and field representations elucidates the core of engineering electrodynamics via theorems and examples. This self-contained book is ideal for study at graduate and advanced levels.

Quantitative phase microscopy and tomography

This book describes the most advanced QPM techniques and computational imaging techniques using partially spatially coherent monochromatic light rather than coherent lasers. Imaging techniques discussed include speckle-free QPM both off-axis and common path interferometric configurations with hig...

The golden gift of red giants

This book reveals how red giants have become prime targets of modern asteroseismology, unlocking unprecedented insights into stellar and galactic evolution.

Applied problems in the theory of electromagnetic wave scattering

This book presents the development of electromagnetic theory in the field of scattering for a wide range of objects. Highly useful worked examples are included throughout the book to support the analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering processes.

Lectures on general relativity, cosmology and quantum black holes

This book is a rigorous text for students in physics and mathematics requiring an introduction to the implications and interpretation of general relativity in areas of cosmology. Readers of this text will be well prepared to follow the theoretical developments in the field and undertake research ...

Neutron imaging

This book introduces neutron imaging with a focus on its applications in academic and industrial applied materials science to provide an inspiring overview of the potential of the method.

Intellectual property for scientists and engineers

Entrepreneurship for creative scientists

Written by experienced scientists and entrepreneurs, this book examines innovative businesses founded by scientists. Aimed at scientists and engineers, this essential guide sets out the steps required to commercialize an idea and maximize its potential for success.

Planetary diversity

This book presents an exploration of the potential diversity of rocky planets through a quantitative study of how planetary processes change as properties deviate from the Earth. Changes in four specific properties are considered: the presence of a magnetic field, the production and loss of inter...