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On the principle of holographic scaling
Holographic dualities are at the forefront of contemporary physics research: peering into the fundamental nature of our universe and providing best attempt answers to humankind's bold questions about basic physical phenomena. Yet, the concepts, ideas and mathematical rigors associated with these ...
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Advances in thermodynamics of the van der waals fluid
This book is a comprehensive exposition of the thermodynamic properties of the van der Waals fluid, which includes a review of past work together with a presentation of the author’s own recent extensive studies. The book provides readers with a graphical overview of the many interesting and diver...
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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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Metamaterial multiverse
Many of the physical properties of our universe, such as the relative strength of the fundamental interactions and the value of the cosmological constant, appear to be fine-tuned for the existence of human life. One possible explanation of this assumes the existence of a multiverse. This book rev...
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A concise introduction to quantum mechanics
A Concise Introduction to Quantum Mechanics provides a self-contained presentation of the mathematics and physics of quantum mechanics. The book includes overviews, analysis, and applications of the main concepts of quantum mechanics and is appropriate for anyone with a basic understanding of cla...
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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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Mechanics of biological systems
This book is an introduction to the mechanical properties, the force generating capacity, and the sensitivity to mechanical cues, of the biological system. To understand how these qualities govern many essential biological processes, we also discuss how to measure them. However, before delving in...
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Biophysics of the senses
Biophysics of the Senses connects fundamental properties of physics to biological systems, relating them directly to the human body. It includes discussions of the role of charges and free radicals in disease and homeostasis, how aspects of mechanics impact normal body functions, human bioelectri...
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An introduction to time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (tof-sims) and its application to materials science
This book highlights the application of Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) for high-resolution surface analysis and characterization of materials. While providing a brief overview of the principles of SIMS, it also provides examples of how dual-beam ToF-SIMS is used to inve...
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Sound-power flow
Sound-Power Flow: A practitioner’s handbook for sound intensity is a guide for practitioners and research scientists in different areas of acoustical science. There are three fundamental quantities in acoustics: sound pressure, sound particle velocity, and sound intensity. This book is about soun...
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Nanoscopic electrofocusing for bio-nanoelectronic devices
This cutting-edge book moves from the current ability to position nanoparticles on surfaces, to a new dimension of spatial control. The authors report that a new technique called “nanoscopic lens” is able to produce a variety of 3D nano-structures in a controlled manner. Particle trajectory calcu...
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A tour of the subatomic zoo
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo: A guide to particle physics is a brief and ambitious expedition into the remarkably simple ingredients of all the wonders of nature. With hardly a mathematical formula, Professor Cindy Schwarz clearly explains the language and much of the substance of elementary parti...
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Atomic physics
Atomic Physics provides a concise treatment of atomic physics and a basis to prepare for work in other disciplines that are underpinned by atomic physics, such as chemistry, biology and several aspects of engineering science. The focus is mainly on atomic structure since this is what is primarily...
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Musical sound, instruments, and equipment
Musical Sound, Instruments, and Equipment offers a basic understanding of sound, musical instruments and music equipment, geared towards a general audience and non-science majors. The book begins by introducing fundamental properties of sound waves, and the perception of the characteristics of so...
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Logic for physicists
This book gives a rigorous yet physics focused introduction to mathematical logic that is geared towards natural science majors. We present the science major with a robust introduction to logic, focusing on the specific knowledge and skills that will unavoidably be needed in calculus topics, and ...
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Concepts in physical metallurgy
The progress of civilization can be, in part, attributed to their ability to employ metallurgy. This book is an introduction to multiple facets of physical metallurgy, materials science, and engineering. As all metals are crystalline in structure, attention is focussed on these structures, and ho...
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Structure and evolution of single stars
Structure and Evolution of Single Stars: An introduction is intended for upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduates with a background in physics. Following a brief overview of the background observational material, the basic equations describing the structure and evolution of single stars...
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Computation in science
This book provides a theoretical background in computation to scientists who use computational methods. It explains how computing is used in the natural sciences, and provides a high-level overview of those aspects of computer science and software engineering that are most relevant for computatio...
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A practical introduction to beam physics and particle accelerators
This book is an exposition of the principles of beam physics and particle accelerators, with emphasis on numerical examples employing readily available computer tools. Avoiding detailed derivations, readers are invited to use general high-end languages such as Mathcad and MATLAB, as well as speci...
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What’s the matter with waves
Like rocket science or brain surgery, quantum mechanics is pigeonholed as a daunting and inaccessible topic, which is best left to an elite few. Authors have run the gamut from hand waving to heavy handed in hopes to dispel this common belief. This particular effort focuses on giving the reader a...
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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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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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Introduction to classical field theory
This book is a short introduction to classical field theory, focusing on showcasing the role of fields in mediating action-at-a-distance interactions. Suitable technical machinery is developed to explore at some aspects of each of the four known fundamental forces in nature. Beginning with the ph...
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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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Carbon nanotubes in drug and gene delivery
Recent important discoveries and developments in nanotechnology have had a remarkable and ever-increasing impact on many industries, especially materials science, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. Within this book, the authors describe different features of carbon nanotubes, survey the properti...
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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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An introduction to time-resolved optically stimulated luminescence
Time-resolved optical stimulation of luminescence is established as an important method for the measurement of optically stimulated luminescence. It provides a means to study dynamics involving charge transfer between point defects in materials by separating in time the stimulation and emission o...
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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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Theory of electromagnetic pulses
This book presents the theory of electromagnetic pulses in a simple and physical way. All pulses discussed are exact solutions of the Maxwell equations, and have finite energy, momentum and angular momentum. The subject matter is restricted to free-space classical electrodynamics, but contact is ...
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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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Smart internal stimulus-responsive nanocarriers for drug and gene delivery
The concept of smart drug delivery vehicles involves designing and preparing a nanostructure (or microstructure) that can be loaded with a cargo. This can be a therapeutic drug, a contrast agent for imaging, or a nucleic acid for gene therapy. The nanocarrier serves to protect the cargo from degr...
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The physics of noise
For a physicist noise is not just about sounds. It refers to any random physical process that blurs measurements and, in so doing, stands in the way of scientific knowledge. This short book deals with the most common types of noise, their properties and some of their unexpected virtues. The text ...
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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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Quantised vortices
Vortices comprising swirling motion of matter are observable in classical systems at all scales, ranging from atomic size to that of galaxies. In quantum mechanical systems, such vortices are robust entities whose behaviours are governed by the strict rules of topology. The physics of quantum vor...
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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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Optical fiber multiplexing and emerging techniques
Starting with the history and fundamentals of optical fiber communications, Optical Fiber Multiplexing and Emerging Techniques introduces existing optical multiplexing techniques, and it focuses on the spatial domain multiplexing (SDM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photon-based multiplexing.
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Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials and nanostructures are the original product of nanotechnology, and they are the key building blocks for enabling technologies. In this context, this book presents a concise overview of the synthesis and characterization methods of nanomaterials and nanostructures, while integrating ...
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A practical introduction to beam physics and particle accelerators, 2nd edition
The second edition of this book continues to provide a brief exposition of the principles of beam physics and particle accelerators with emphasis on numerical examples. It includes revisions and additions to every section with new material, figures, improved notation, and new or enhanced computer...
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Truth and traceability in physics and metrology
Truth and Traceability in Physics and Metrology discusses a new error concept that dispenses with the common practice to randomize unknown systematic errors. Instead, unknown systematic errors are treated as what they are, namely unknown constants. Furthermore, the ideas considered point to a met...
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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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Relativistic quantum field theory, volume 2
Volume 2 of this three-part series begins with an introduction of the path integral formalism for non-relativistic quantum mechanics. The formalism is then extended to quantum fields with an infinite number of degrees of freedom. How to quantize gauge fields using the Fadeev–Popov method, and fer...
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Physics is…
He’s back! “The Physicist” returns with a whole new set of questions and answers that explore the attributes of physics (practical, beautiful, surprising, cool, frivolous). The answers are responses to people looking for answers to fascinating (and often uninformed) questions. It covers topics su...
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Classical mechanics, volume 2
Classical Mechanic: Kinematics and uniformly accelerated motion focuses on the difference between asking, “How does an object move?” and “Why does an object move?”. This distinction requires a paradigm shift in the mind of the reader. Therefore, the reader must train themselves to clarify, “Am I ...
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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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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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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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A modern introduction to neutrino physics
A deeper understanding of neutrinos, with the goal to reveal their nature and exact role within particle physics, is at the frontier of current research. This book reviews the field in a concise fashion and highlights the most pressing issues, in addition to the strongest areas of topical interes...
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