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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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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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Nonlinear optics of photonic crystals and meta-materials
This is a brief introduction to the ideas and phenomena that occur in the nonlinear optics of photonic crystals and metamaterials. These are illustrated within the context of simple models that provide an easy understanding of the physical phenomena that are important in these two rapidly develop...
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Introduction to computational physics for undergraduates
This is an introductory textbook on computational methods and techniques intended for undergraduates at the sophomore or junior level in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. It provides an introduction to programming languages such as FORTRAN 90/95/2000 and covers numerical techni...
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Defining and measuring nature
Weights and measures form an essential part of our ingrained view of the world. It is just about impossible to function effectively without some internalized system of measurement, enabling us to estimate and judge size, weight, duration, distance and value. In this volume, author Jeffrey Huw Wil...
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Creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient
This book provides a recipe for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient, and solves the many-body wave scattering problem for many small impedance bodies. The physical assumptions make the multiple scattering effects essential. Technological problems are formulated which, when so...
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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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A practical introduction to beam optics 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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International linear collider (ilc)
The most powerful way of making progress in particle physics is to build a new collider with a larger energy. The best option for this is a project called the International Linear Collider, which is a linear e+e– collider with energies in the range of (250–1000) GeV. It will be a complex, mega-sc...
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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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Hadronic jets
A jet is a narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. This book is a general overview of jet physics for scientists not directly involved in the field. It presents the basic experimental and theoretic...
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The physics of destructive earthquakes
This book is a concise introduction to the interactions between earthquakes and human-built structures (buildings, dams, bridges, power plants, pipelines and more). It focuses on the ways in which these interactions illustrate the application of basic physics principles and concepts, including in...
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An introduction to the physics of nuclear medicine
The complexity and vulnerability of the human body has driven the development of a diverse range of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in modern medicine. This book offers an insight into the physics of nuclear medicine by explaining the principles of radioactivity, how radionuclides are produ...
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An introduction to the formalism of quantum information with continuous variables
This book is an introduction to quantum information with special emphasis on continuous-variable systems (such as light) that can be described as collections of harmonic oscillators. It covers a selection of basic concepts, focusing on their physical meaning and mathematical treatment. It starts ...
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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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Computational approaches in physics
Computational Approaches in Physics reviews computational schemes that are used in the simulations of physical systems. These range from very accurate ab initio techniques up to coarse-grained and mesoscopic schemes. A bottom-up approach is used to present the various simulation methods, and outl...
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Electrostatic phenomena on planetary surfaces
The diverse planetary environments in the solar system react in different ways to the influence of the Sun. These different interactions define the electrostatic phenomena that take place on and near planetary surfaces and they have enormous implications for both humans and robotic exploration of...
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Smart external 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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Essential semiconductor laser device physics
The invention of the semiconductor laser along with silica glass fiber has enabled an incredible revolution in global communication infrastructure of direct benefit to all. Development of devices and system concepts that exploit the same fundamental light-matter interaction continues. Researchers...
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The continuing quest for missile defense
This book provides an introduction to the complex story of missile defense, by recounting past successes and failures, describing the current systems in place, and exploring what may lie ahead. In the process, it will explain the technologies involved in attempting such a difficult task.
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Nanometrology using the transmission electron microscope
The Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) is the ultimate tool to see and measure structures on the nanoscale and to probe their elemental composition and electronic structure with sub-nanometer spatial resolution. Recent technological breakthroughs have revolutionized our understanding of mater...
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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 nanomaterials in medicine
Advancement in the field of nanotechnology has revolutionized the field of medicines and pharmaceuticals in the 20th century. This book, considering the importance of nanomaterials and their application in medicine, as well as the significant growth of biomaterials in research fields, introduces ...
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Understanding sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is the transformation of sound into light. To most who know how to do sonoluminescence, it’s just a little glowing bubble levitating in a flask of water. But it holds some surprises that have been overlooked. This book looks to reform our scientific understanding of sonoluminesce...
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The ringed planet
In September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the surface of Saturn and end its 13-year mission of solving many of the mysteries of the ringed planet’s system with a crash. This book is a dramatic, beautifully illustrated journey of discovery through the Saturn system. Cassin...
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A guided tour of light beams
From science-fiction death rays to supermarket scanners, lasers are deeply embedded in our daily lives and cultures. But in recent decades, the standard laser beam has evolved into an array of more specialized light beams with a variety of strange and counter-intuitive properties. This is an intr...
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Science in the arena
The arena of sport is filled with marvelous performances and feats that, at times, seem almost beyond belief. As curious onlookers, we often wonder whether or not athletes will reach certain peaks and what determines their limits of athletic performance. Science, with its emphasis on theoretical ...
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Molecular photophysics and spectroscopy
This book provides a fresh, photon‐based description of modern molecular spectroscopy and photophysics, with applications drawn from chemistry, biology, physics and materials science. The concise and detailed approach includes some of the most recent developments, dispensing with old‐fashioned tr...
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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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Disorder in domain theory
Domain theory is a subject that emerged as a response to natural concerns in the semantics of computation, and it involves the study of ordered sets that possess an unusual amount of mathematical structure. Disorder in Domain Theory explores the connection between domain theory and quantum inform...
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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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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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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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Quantum thermodynamics
This book introduces the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, with a focus on its relation to quantum information and its implications for quantum computers and next-generation quantum technologies. Aimed at graduate-level physics students with a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and st...
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Quantum chemistry, 2nd edition
This book provides non-specialists with a basic understanding of the underlying concepts of quantum chemistry. It is both a text for second- or third-year undergraduates and a reference for researchers who need a quick introduction or refresher. All chemists and many biochemists, materials scient...
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Optical nanomanipulation
This book provides a broad introductory survey of the remarkable field of optical nanomanipulation. It establishes and clearly differentiates the physical principles and provides a snapshot of many prominent current applications. The first chapters introduce and develop core theory focusing on th...
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Electromagnetics in magnetic resonance imaging
In the past few decades, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become an indispensable tool in modern medicine. But for all its utility and prevalence, it is much less commonly understood and less readily explained than other common medical imaging techniques. This book explains MRI with emphasis ...
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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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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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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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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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Smath for physics
SMath is a free mathematical notebook program similar to Mathcad that provides many options for studying and solving complex mathematical equations. This book is a primer providing a concise but thorough introduction that keeps physics at a fairly low level so readers can concentrate on understan...
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Classical mechanics, volume 5
Classical Mechanics: Conservation laws and rotational motion covers the conservation of energy and the conservation of momentum, which are crucial concepts in any physics course. It also introduces the concepts of center-of-mass and rotational motion.
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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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An approach to dark matter modelling
In the field of particle and astrophysics one of the major unresolved problems is to understand the nature and properties of dark matter, which constitutes almost 80% of the matter content of the universe. This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the field of dark matter in general, and in p...
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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 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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